Past Winners And Prediction For the 2011 Cricket World Cup

There have been nine events so far, with the first tournament taking place in England in 1975.
The last ICC Cricket World Cup took place in 2007 in the Caribbean which was won by Australia, which became the first side in history to win three consecutive titles
In a final which was interrupted by rain, Australia won the title by 53 runs (Duckworth/Lewis method), with Adam Gilchrist's 149 off 104 balls, the highest score in a CWC Final, helping him take the Man of the Match Award.
Spectacular hitting dominated the tournament, most notably when South Africa's Herschelle Gibbs became the first man in ODI history to hit six sixes in one over against the Netherlands, Matthew Hayden of Australia scored the fastest hundred in CWC history off 66 balls against South Africa and New Zealand's Brendon McCullum's 50 off 20 balls against Canada was also a record.
India made a record team score in a CWC, with 413 against Bermuda, the Australia-South Africa group match was the highest match aggregate in CWC history and the 18 sixes in the South Africa-Netherlands match was also an ODI record.
There were also moments of individual brilliance with the ball, with Lasith Malinga becoming the first to take four wickets in four balls in an ODI and the fifth player to take a CWC hat-trick.
Other winners of the event include West Indies (1975, 1979), India (1983), Pakistan (1992) and Sri Lanka (1996). Australia also captured the title in 1987.
The next ICC Cricket World Cup will be held in 2011 in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.


My Prediction !!

Final
India vs Australia OR India vs S.Africa

It will be either India vs Australia or Australia vs South Africa. Sorry to break it to everyone but Australia are just to good for the current competition. Australia at the moment have a great lineup despite loosing quite a few key players so that might slack them off during the world cup. But in 3 years time, you never know.

Well, I do not know about Australia or South Africa, but India will surely reach the finals in the tournament. India is now full of young players, who are performing very well these days. The young team under the captaincy of Dhoni, has already started gaining momentum by winning the T20 world cup, and now the series versus Srilanka.

The upcoming series with Australia will hence decide who is the current champion.

i think its just australlia vs newzeland not the subcontinent teams coz they dont have any maturity showed in the previous series by any of subcontinent
and they also all are unpredictable teams