• With 63.5 crore viewers till the semifinals stage, the 2015 World Cup was the highest viewed event on Indian television. Every second Indian tuned in to watch the extravaganza.
• Tickets for the India-Pakistan match on February 15, reportedly, sold out within 12 minutes of going on sale. Around 288 million watched it on television.
• 93,013 attended the final between co-hosts New Zealand and Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
• Afghanistan made its World Cup debut. The youngest player to ever play in a World Cup was Afghanistan’s 18-year-old right-handed opening batsman Usman Ghani.
• Sachin Tendulkar was made the World Cup ambassador consecutively for two years—2011 & 2015.
• There were two opening ceremonies for the 2015 World Cup on February 12, 2015. One was in Christchurch, New Zealand and the other was at Melbourne, Australia.
• Team India's jersey was made by Nike using recycled polyester from 33 bottles.

• Yuvraj Singh was sold to Delhi Daredevils for ₹16 crore, a record bid in IPL auction history.
• The strike rate of the openers was 130.48—the best for any season.
• Eight out of the top nine run-getters in IPL 2015 were openers, with David Warner leading the way (562 runs at an average of 43.23). AB de Villiers is the only non-opener on this list.
• Teams scored at a run-rate of 10.31 runs per over during the last five overs of an innings this IPL, the highest for any season.
• 42% increase in television viewership (TVR) for IPL 2015 compared to the earlier edition.
• 9% increase in the overall reach of IPL 2015 compared to the earlier edition. The first 14 matches had 14.5 crore unique viewers as compared to 13.8 crore in 2014.
• Contribution of regional feeds—Bengali, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada—to the overall viewership was 77%
• 22% increase in the amount of time spent by viewers watching IPL 2015 compared to the earlier edition
• 290.1 million live tweet impressions (or number of tweet views during a live match window) between April 9 and May 13
• 250 million Facebook interactions—a post (text, photo, video), a comment, a post like, a comment like, a page like, or a share—revolving around the IPL 2015 by 26 million people.
• Google reported that IPL 2015 beat search trends for ICC World Cup 2015—that, too, in just 10 days.
• IPL 2016 will see two new teams—Pune and Rajkot—in place of Chennai and Rajasthan, which have been banned for two years.

It began with the US Attorney General Loretta Lynch announcing a probe against 14 people to uncover decades of corruption amounting to about $150 million. They were charged with buying/selling votes during FIFA elections and accepting kickbacks from sports marketers.

High-ranking officials of the FIFA and leading officials of football bodies that operate under FIFA (Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) and South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) faced corruption charges.

However, this did not prevent Blatter from being elected as president of FIFA for a fifth term. Four days later, he resigned.

On August 7, FIFA announced that it has launched an internal probe into the allegations.

Although Blatter denied wrongdoing after criminal proceedings were initiated against him, FIFA's Ethics Committee recommended that he be suspended. On October 8, the committee provisionally banned Blatter for 90 days from all football-related activities.

Blatter claimed that the £1.35 million that he paid Platini was part of a "gentleman's agreement".

On November 18, the appeals by Blatter and Platini against the ban were turned down.

Corporate Defendants

• Traffic Sports International, (Football events management company)

Pleaded guilty

• Traffic Sports USA, (Football events management company)

Pleaded guilty

• South Africa passed 200 only once in 7 attempts during the four-Test series
• de Villiers recorded the slowest sub-50 score: 43 off 297 balls in the fourth Test at Delhi
• The Proteas played 143.1 overs in Delhi Test, the most by any team in the fourth innings of a Test in Asia. Their run-rate in the fourth innings was 0.99
• Ashwin earned 7 five-wicket hauls in Tests in 2015, the most by an India bowler in a calendar year. He ended the series with 31 wickets and his fifth Man-of-the-Series award
• India's margin of victory in the fourth Test—337 runs—is their biggest in terms of runs in Test history. It was also the second-biggest Test defeat for South Africa in terms of runs, beating their 530-run loss against Australia in Melbourne in 1910-11.