ABSTRACT
Of the seven countries to have competed in every cricket World Cup, New Zealand is ultimately the least successful. The West Indies, India, Australia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have won the tournament and England has contested three finals. New Zealand has progressed no further than the semi-finals in 1975, 1979, 1992 and 1999. More to the point, only when New Zealand was a co-host with Australia in 1992 has a World Cup campaign gathered significant momentum and captured public imagination.
