   the 1999 icc cricket world cup, the seventh edition of the tournament, was hosted primarily by england, with some games being hosted in scotland, ireland, wales and the netherlands. the world cup was won by australia, who beat pakistan by 8 wickets at lord's cricket ground in london. new zealand and south africa were the other semifinalists. the 12 contesting teams were divided into 2 groups; each team played all the others in their group during the league stage. the top three from each group advanced to the super sixes, a new concept for the 1999 world cup, where each qualifier from group a played each qualifier from group b. the teams also carried forward their points from the games against the other qualifiers from their group. the top four in the super sixes contested the semifinals. ==teams== the nine full members contested the world cup along with three associate members: kenya, and for the first time, bangladesh and scotland who all qualified through the 1997 icc trophy. {| class="wikitable" |- !colspan=2|full members |- | style="width:150px;"| | |- | | |- | | |- | | |- | |- !colspan=2|associate members |- | | |- | |} ==venues== {{location map+|england|width=400|float=right|caption=venues in england and wales|places=    {{location map~|england|lat_deg=51|lat_min=1|lon_deg=-3|lon_min=-6|position=left|background=|label=[[
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