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West Indies Cricket Team won the first two tournaments, in 1975 and 1979.

West Indies at Cricket World Cup - 1975 and 1979

The only man to have played both World Cup Football and World Cup Cricket is Viv Richards, Antigua at football and West Indies at cricket. The first cricket team to win the World Cup twice, their record was surpassed by Four Times World Cup Champions Australia, and equaled by India in 2011.
West Indies are also the first team to win back to back World Cups, since surpassed by three consecutive World Cup wins by Australia (1999, 2003 and 2007). West Indies is the first team to appear in three consecutive World Cup finals (1975, 1979 and 1983), since surpassed by four consecutive World Cup finals appearances by Australia (1996, 1999, 2003 and 2007) - This paragraph courtesy : Wikipedia.
Additional Information about West Indies Cricket Team : Anderson Cummins is only the second player to represent two different teams in the World Cup (West Indies 1991-1992 and Canada 2007) - the other was Kepler Wessels (Australia and South Africa).

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