About this chart race
The West Indies won the first two Cricket World Cups, in 1975 and 1979, and that was enough to keep them top of this table for 24 years. Nobody else had won two ICC titles until Australia's second World Cup in 1999, and for a moment in 2002 four teams were level on two apiece - Australia, India, Sri Lanka and the West Indies - after India and Sri Lanka shared a Champions Trophy final that was twice washed out.
Australia broke away from 2003. Three World Cups in a row (1999, 2003, 2007) plus back-to-back Champions Trophies in 2006 and 2009 took them to six, and the 2021 T20 World Cup, the 2023 World Test Championship and the 2023 World Cup carried them to 10 - the most of any team, from all four ICC events.
India are the story of the last three years. They had five titles at the end of 2023 and eight by March 2026, winning the T20 World Cup in 2024, the Champions Trophy in 2025 and the T20 World Cup again in 2026 - the first team to defend a T20 World Cup, and they did it at home. That leaves them two behind Australia with the next Champions Trophy due in 2029. Below the top two, the West Indies are on five, England, Pakistan and Sri Lanka on three each, and New Zealand and South Africa on two - South Africa's second arriving with the 2025 World Test Championship, their first global men's title in 27 years.
This race counts the four global men's competitions the ICC has run: the Cricket World Cup (13 editions since 1975), the T20 World Cup (10 since 2007), the Champions Trophy (9 editions since 1998, with the 2002 title shared) and the World Test Championship (3 finals since 2021). That is 36 titles shared between eight teams; no other side has won any of them.
This animated ranking shows how cumulative icc global titles changed across 8 series between 1975 and 2026. The bars re-order themselves as the years advance, so overtakes are visible as they happen rather than hidden inside a table. Use the list on the left to choose exactly who competes, drag the slider to jump to any year, or open the table view to read the underlying numbers.
As of 2026, Australia leads with 10.
Included in this race
Australia, India, West Indies, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, England, South Africa, New Zealand.
Source
Data from Wikipedia - ICC tournament finals. Every figure shown comes from this source — nothing is estimated or generated.
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