BBC Cricket: England at the 1999 World Cup

The highs and lows of England's 1999 Cricket World Cup campaign, as seen in the openers and closers to BBC highlights programmes.
There's early optimism, and note the suggestion that England are 'all but through' after they beat Zimbabwe. Of course, we now know that they scored those runs too slowly and Zimbabwe's win over South Africa knocked England out on net run rate.
There's no match footage here to avoid copyright strikes, but plenty of context and comment from, amongst others, Chris Lewis and Mark Ramprakash.
All copyright remains BBC/ICC, uploaded for information purposes only.

[@Gg-zd8xz]

Thanks for the upload! How much other footage have you got squirrelled away - good to see you return after 5 years :)

[@mezykin]

the entire decade was a nightmare and featured well below average cricketers for the England team. it's no surprise they were swept aside in the world cup and bottom of the test rankings in 1999.

[@iammodestykazi6914]

Excellent upload ! Can we have one for IND AUS SAF or PAK please for this World Cup 👏👌👍

[@bhaskarpuvvala5849]

Great great upload

[@tamannasultanaoyshi2430]

No.1 Cricket World Cup opening ceremony is a 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup 🏟 In Bangladesh 🇧🇩 Dhaka Bongobondhu stadium 🏟 🏏

[@sunkaraA9]

A world cup heavily influenced by net run rate. England were out, West Indies were out and eventually South Africa's fate was sealed by the net run rate

[@arjunps6776]

India's group games in this world cup were at The Hove, Leicester, Bristol, Taunton and Edgbaston. The organisers underestimated the Indian fans' ability to pay and fill up the grounds. Four of India's games were in tiny county grounds instead of a big test stadiums. ICC would have made a lot of money if India played in big stadiums. It was their big financial blunder. They were not aware at that time of the upcoming financial clout of the Indian cricket fanbase living in India and abroad. I'm not saying that results for Indian team would have been any different. That loss against Zimbabwe haunted us throughout the tournament. India never played on smaller grounds after that except against associate nations sometimes.

[@JackBarrBaxter]

What's the point of your comment?

[@arjunps6776]

@@JackBarrBaxter That 1999 was a terribly organised World Cup.

[@merch123456]

Back then India Team was literally Tendulkar, Ganguly and Dravid. No other “world stars”. Only from 2001 onwards when Sehwag, Yuvraj etc came of age did India become the “powerhouse” of cricket they are now. Back in 90’s India were mediocre at best.

[@iammodestykazi6914]

​@@arjunps6776in terms of gate money right ?

[@mrkipling2201]

Sorry, I forgot we played in the 1999 World Cup!! Even though we hosted it!!

[@arjunshing8631]

Thanks

[@RBenjo21]

Typical BBC - England are great until they get knocked out, then they’re the worst team in history.

[@tamannasultanaoyshi2430]

I think 4th best opening ceremony cricket World Cup England 1999 🇬🇧 🏟 🏏 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 🇳🇱

[@cerneuffington2656]

It was a bit lame.

[@arjunshing8631]

Love u

[@tamannasultanaoyshi2430]

Okay not bad England 1999 🇬🇧 opening ceremony 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇳🇱 better than Australia New Zealand 2015 🇦🇺🇳🇿& England 🇬🇧 2019 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@filmdude007]

Nice upload. Would you be interested in a trade for these match highlights? Please get back to me. Thanks

[@prashanbala1854]

Cricket 19? 😂

[@arjunshing8631]

Thanks