The Bangladesh national cricket team has appeared in each Cricket World Cup since their first appearance at the 1999 Cricket World Cup as an associate team which was mainly held in England. Bangladesh's highest achievements in World Cup are reaching the Super Eight stage in the 2007 Cricket World Cup and the Quarter-Final of the 2015 Cricket World Cup.
Cricket World Cup records
Team wise record
Bangladesh at 1999 Cricket World Cup
Bangladesh for the first time participated in Cricket World Cup in this edition as an associate member and were placed in the Group B. Bangladesh played their first ever World cup match against New Zealand at County Ground in Chelmsford and they eventually lost the match by 6 wickets being bundled out for just mere 116 runs in first innings. They also lost their second group match against West Indies by 7 wickets. However Bangladesh tasted their first World Cup victory against another associate nation Scotland in their third group match courtesy of Minhajul Abedin's well made 68* where they defeated Scotland by 22 runs.
However Bangladesh returned to their losing circle again in their next match against Australia where Australia beat them by 7 wickets. But in their very next match they stunned the cricket world by defeating Pakistan, the Champion of 1992 Cricket World Cup by 62 runs courtesy of good batting efforts of Akram Khan, Shahriar Hossain and a match winning bowling effort by Khaled Mahmud. This win also helped them acquiring Test status in the very next year.
After the Group stage Bangladesh finished at fifth position with 2 wins and 3 losses. Though Bangladesh could not make way to the Super Six stage but they returned to country with some moderate performances.
Squads
Coach: Gordon Greenidge
Bangladesh at 2003 Cricket World Cup
After their moderate performance in their first appearance in World Cup and acquiring Test status in 2000, Bangladesh would have expected a better World Cup performance this year but they had a nightmare performance in this tournament losing 5 out of their group matches while one was washed out and were placed last in their group.
Bangladesh were placed in Group B with Sri Lanka, Kenya, New Zealand, South Africa, West Indies and Canada. In their first group match Bangladesh was upset by Canada, first time featuring in the World Cup. Though Canada could only manage 180 losing all wickets, Bangladesh had more worse performance being bundled out for just 120 and lost the match by 60 runs. In their third match West Indies managed 244 batting first, in the second inning Bangladesh could bat only 8 overs and match washed away due to heavy rain. In none of their group matches Bangladesh could breach the line of 200-run marks while the match against Caribbeans washed away. Their highest team total in the tournament was against New Zealand where they posted 198 losing 7 wickets but the latter successfully chased that down with 7 wickets in hand. In their last group match they could not even chase 217 runs posted by Kenya and were folded in just 185 runs resulting in their 32-runs defeat and consequently Kenya progressed to the Super Six stage.
Squads
Coach: Mohsin Kamal
Akram Khan replaced Mashrafe Mortaza on 19 February 2003
Bangladesh at 2007 Cricket World Cup
16 teams (including 6 associates) participated in 2007 World Cup. For the first and only time the World Cup teams were divided into 4 groups, each group consisting 4 teams. Bangladesh were placed into Group B along with India, Sri Lanka and the first and only time participant Bermuda. This time Bangladesh squad were much more balanced with experienced guys Habibul Bashar, Abdur Razzak, Aftab Ahmed, Javed Omar, Mashrafe Mortaza, Mohammad Ashraful, Mohammad Rafique and youngsters like Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim, Tamim Iqbal.
In their first group match, Bangladesh stunned the Cricket world by defeating India by 5 wickets with the great bowling of Mashrafe Mortaza, Mohammad Rafique and Abdur Razzak and India were all out in just 191 runs. In reply Bangladesh reached the target with 9 balls to spare courtesy of the fifties of three youngsters Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim and Tamim Iqbal.
In their next group match Bangladesh lost to Sri Lanka by 198 runs. In their third and last match of group stage Bangladesh sealed their spot in Super Eights defeating Bermuda by 7 wickets and consequently India had to exit the tournament from group stage.