Virender Sehwag Record 175 runs in India Vs Bangladesh World Cup 2011 Opening Match

Virender Sehwag Record 175 runs in India Vs Bangladesh World Cup 2011 Opening Match

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Indian Cricket Team Golden Moments After Winning Cricket World Cup : Photo Gallery

Wow! Wow! Wow! History Created by Team India 

Gautam Gambhir scored 97 runs in finals

Sachin Tendulkar on shoulders of Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli

Yuvraj Singh & MS Dhoni After Winning Shot

Golden Moment of Indian Cricket After 28 years

Team India Celebration After Winning  World cup 

Emotional Yuvraj Singh After Winning the World cup 2011

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Top 10 Batsman Who Scored Most Runs in Cricket World Cup 2011

 Player                        Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave      SR      100 50 0 4s 6s
TM Dilshan (SL) 9 9 1 500      144 62.50 90.74 2 2 0 61 4
SR Tendulkar (India)      9 9 0 482      120 53.55 91.98 2 2 0 52  8
KC Sangakkara (SL)     9 8 3 465      111 93.00 83.78 1 3 0 44 5
IJL Trott (Eng)               7 7 0 422       92 60.28 80.84 0 5 0 28 0
WU Tharanga (SL)        9 9 2 395       133 56.42 83.68 2 1 0 52 2
G Gambhir (India)          9 9 0 393       97 43.66 85.06 0 4 0 37  0
V Sehwag (India)           8 8 0  380      175 47.50 122.58 1 1 1 49 7
Yuvraj Singh (India)       9 8 4 362      113 90.50 86.19 1 4 1 39 3
AB de Villiers (SA)       5 5 1 353      134 88.25 108.28 2 1 0 31 7
AJ Strauss (Eng)           7 7 0 334       158 47.71 93.55 1 1 1 34 3

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Sri Lanka Vs New Zealand :Sri Lanka Beat New Zealand by 5 Wickets enters into World Cup Final 3rd Time

Sri Lanka Vs New Zealand :Sri Lanka Beat New Zealand  by 5 Wickets enters into cricket world Cup Final 3rd Time.  Wow! Wow! Wow! what a interesting cricketing match this Semi final of cricket world cup.
 Valuable innings of Tillakaratne Dilshan 73 runs (93 balls 10 fours & 1 six)  &  Kumar Sangakkara 54 (79 balls 7 fours & 1 Six) and in the lower order Angelo Mathews 14 runs (18 balls) & Thilan Samarweera 23 runs (38 balls) takes Srilankan team to Victory by 5 wickets. After loosing of quick wickets New Zealand returns into the match very strongly.

Sri Lanka beats New Zealand by 5 Wickets in Semi Final

Before this New Zeland is able to manage only 217/10  runs in 48.5 overs.

Only Martin Guptill 39 runs (65 balls) & Scott styris 57 Runs ( 77 balls with 5 fours) showed some fight to
Sri Lankan Bowling Attack and manage to somehow to cross the 200 runs mark.

                       O      M     R    W
Lasith Malinga 9 0 55 3
H Herath         9 1 31 1
Ajantha mendis9.5 0 35 3
M Muralitharan 10 1 42 2 

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Imran Khan & Former Pakistani Cricketers Rehman Malik Match Fixing Comments on Pakistani Team Is Rubbish

ISLAMABAD: Better known for his verbal faux-pas, Pakistan's interior minister  Rehman Malik warned the country's cricket team on Monday against match-fixing, saying the government would be closely scrutinizing them in the match against  India in Mohali. 

Rehman Malik Said "I gave them a warning yesterday that there should be no match-fixing. I am keeping a close watch. If any such thing happens, we are going to take action," Malik told reporters in Karachi  . 

He described the current cricket team as comprising of clean members but said: "It is necessary to monitor the player because we can't take a chance after what happened in London . I should not have revealed but we keep an eye on people who meet our players, with whom they talk by telephone." 

The International Cricket Council's anti-corruption tribunal punished former Pakistani captain Salman Butt and two fast bowlers, Muhammad Asif and Muhammad Aamer for spot-fixing with lengthy bans from the game in February. The trio's involvement in spot-fixing at Lord's Test last year was shocking for the cricket-loving Pakistani nation.

No one knows about Rehman Malik's managerial role in the affairs of Pakistan Cricket Board, although, he had also some good advice for the players.

"They should concentrate on their practice and must go to bed early. They should ensure discipline and rise up according to their schedule. I advise them to dedicate themselves to the game for Pakistan."

Malik's comments were met with hard hitting response from Pakistani cricket legends. Imran Khan, a Pakistan cricket legend turned politician said, "I am more worried about Malik than the cricket team. For all who might not know, Malik was absconding from justice until very recently."

Khan said the minister does not have a very good command on the English language so he must have meant something else. No one in the Pakistani team will even read that statement. They've much better things to do," Khan said. If one wants to stamp out corruption, the cricket boards and the ICC needs to get more vigilant. He said spot-fixing was a very difficult thing to detect.

Former Pakistani Test player Zaheer Abbas rubbished Malik's remarks, saying it was inappropriate for Malik to make such comments at this time.

"Rather than boosting the morale of the players, the interior minister is trying to demoralize them," he said.

Former Pakistani opener Aamir Sohail said that the minister should have conveyed his message to the team personally rather than saying it on media. "However, there are fears of match-fixing in the semifinal," he remarked. 

Akhtar, Akmal dope-tested ahead of ICC World Cup 2011

News Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/cricket-world-cup-2011/news/Former-Pakistan-cricketers-rubbish-Maliks-comments/articleshow/7809103.cms

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India Vs Pakistan : Zardari & Gilani Accepted PM Manmohan Singh invitation to Watch Match in Mohali

Asaf Ali Zardari & PM Manmohan Singh 

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari & Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani accepted the invitation of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to watch India-Pakistan Icc Cricket world cup 2011 Semi final match, 30th match in Mohali. This is positive step taken by Indian PM to invite Pakistan President & PM to strong the relationship between two countries.

This is an another good diplomatic step to push the India-Pakistan peace agenda. Cricket is a sport which is highly popular in both countries. Cricket is like a religion in India as well as Pakistan. After 2003 world cup Pakistan play first match against India. In the last encounter in In World cup 2003, Centurion India Beat Pakistan by 6 wickets in which Sachin Tendulkar scored useful 98 runs in indian victory.

Mohali stadium is under the tight security of Indian security agencies. SPG & NSG & quick response action team has already turned stadium into army cannt.  Mohali stadium is declared as No Flying Zone for security purpose.  

From the Past :-

- FEBRUARY 1987 Then Pakistan President General Zia- ul- Haq flew in to Jaipur's Sawai Man Singh stadium, inviting himself to watch a Test match between India and Pakistan

In April 2005 Pakistani President Parvez Musharraf is also visted to watch India-Pakistan series last match in Ferozeshah Kotla in Delhi.

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Yuvraj Singh | Yuvraj Singh & Yuvraj Singh. WOW!!!! at its Best Vs Australia in Quarter Finals

Unseen Emotional Yuvraj Singh unforgettable moments after Win Over Australia by 5 Wickets in Quarter Finals of ICC Cricket World Cup 2011.

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Sri Lanka Vs England :Tharanga & Dilshan Centuries Takes Sri Lanka into World Cup Semi Final

Sri Lanka Won by Quarter Finals by 10th Wickets Against England. Tillakaratne Dilshan 108 runs (115 balls with 10 fours & 2 Sixes) and Upul Tharanga 102 Runs (122 balls 12 fours & 1 Six) are the heros in the Sri lankan Victory. Now Sri Lanka play First Semi Final against New Zealand on 29th March at Colombo. Second Semi Finals will be played between Pakistan & India on 30th March at Mohali

Tillakaratne Dilshan image courtesy Espn Cric info

 Tillakaratne Dilshan and Upul Tharanga set an emphatic seal on Sri Lanka's place in their home semi-final against New Zealand next Tuesday, as England's chaotic World Cup campaign came to an abrupt and anticlimactic end under the floodlights at the Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. Set a testing total of 230 at a venue where successful run-chases have been notoriously thin on the ground, Sri Lanka's openers set about proving that history is bunk as they sauntered to victory by 10 wickets and with a massive 64 balls to spare. After five months on the road for England's cricketers, and six consecutive nail-biters in the group stages of the tournament, they found they had nothing left to give as the first round of knock-out matches was concluded with an utter walloping.

Though several higher scores have been made in this tournament to date, England's total of 229 for 6 ought to have competitive in the conditions. Only eight times in 49 internationals at the venue had a team batting second chased 230 or more for victory, and the most recent occasion came back in 2004. However, Dilshan and Tharanga battled through a tricky start with a flurry of aggression, before settling back into an effortlessly accumulative tempo. For the second time in the campaign, following on from their crushing of Zimbabwe in Pallekele, both men brought up centuries in a massive and indomitable stand.

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50 overs England 229 for 6 (Trott 86, Morgan 50) v Sri Lanka

Jonathan Trott and Eoin Morgan turned up the heat on Sri Lanka with a fourth-wicket stand of 91 in 16 overs, only for the batting Powerplay to once again scupper England's momentum, as two nervy sets of players fought for the ascendancy in a gripping quarter-final in Colombo. After winning the toss on a typically spin-friendly surface, England overcame a sluggish start to post a defendable total of 229 for 6, with Trott once again playing the anchor role as he passed 400 runs for the tournament with his fifth fifty in seven innings.

However, their ambitions of a formidable 240-plus total were scuppered by the dismissal of Morgan in the first over of the Powerplay. 

Until he drilled Lasith Malinga to deep cover for a 55-ball 50, he had lived a charmed life, with no fewer than four clear-cut chances going his way - three dropped catches, two of them extraordinarily easy, and an lbw appeal on 29 that would have proved stone-dead on review. His luck, however, ran out at an inopportune moment for England, and when Graeme Swann missed a switch hit to fall for a first-ball duck, England proved incapable of reaching the boundary while the field was up, with just 23 runs coming in the five overs of fielding restrictions, and 56 in the last 10 all told.

Nevertheless, England have runs on the board, and that - according to the ground statistics at least - could be half the battle won. Thirty-six of the 49 completed matches at the Premadasa Stadium have gone to the side batting first, including 14 of the last 18 day-night fixtures, and Trott's performance was that of a man who knew that if he batted through the innings, the runs would materialise somehow. He finished with 86 from 115 balls with just two boundaries, none of which came in the first 30 overs, and eventually fell in pursuit of his third, as he swept Muttiah Muralitharan to deep backward square with nine balls of the innings remaining.

This could yet prove to be the last match of Murali's exceptional career, and he finished with 2 for 54 in nine overs before limping off with an apparent recurrence of his hamstring strain. However, that tally could have been higher but for an extraordinary sequence of events in his eighth over, when Morgan was dropped twice in consecutive deliveries. He had already survived one dolly of an opportunity on 16, when Thilan Samaraweera shelled a leading edge off Ajantha Mendis at point, but Murali couldn't contain his fury when, first, Angelo Mathews at extra cover fluffed a lofted drive, before Rangana Herath dived forward at point but failed to cling on.

In between his let-offs, Morgan produced a typically inventive and energising performance. England had collected a grand total of four boundaries before he came to the middle in the 28th over, but Morgan added that many off his own bat, as he worked the angles in his inimitable style, launching Malinga for a checked drive over extra cover before dabbing three more through third man, two via an open face, and one from a well-timed reverse sweep.

Such riches proved hard to come by at the top of the order, as Sri Lanka's bowlers applied the tightest of tourniquets in the opening exchanges of the contest. Despite enjoying a fine tournament to date, Strauss's ambitions were thwarted from the outset as Sri Lanka opened their bowling with a spinner for the first time in the tournament to date, and he already seemed resigned to ugly heaves through the leg-side when Tillakaratne Dilshan beat him on precisely that shot in the eighth over, to send the captain back for 5 from 19 balls.

At the other end, Ian Bell became Strauss's third opening partner of the campaign, after Kevin Pietersen and Matt Prior, and he launched his innings in fine style with a first-ball flick through square leg for four as Malinga strayed onto his pads. Mathews, though several notches slower than Malinga, also provided enough pace to pick the gaps, as Bell added two more boundaries in an attractive and promising 25 from 32 balls. But, just when he seemed set for a big performance, Bell chipped Mathews limply to midwicket, as England struggled to 32 for 2 in the mandatory Powerplay - their lowest total in the tournament to date.

However, Trott's sang froid was well suited to the situation, as he backed himself to work the ones and twos in a boundary-less start to his innings, and at the same time he drew a gutsy response from Ravi Bopara, who was far less comfortable with the tempo, but who knuckled down for an important 31 from 56 balls.

Bopara cut Herath sweetly through point for four early in his stay, but he might have fallen twice in two balls in Herath's next over, as an lbw appeal was deemed to be missing leg (although the decision would have stayed on-field) before Bopara missed a cut that zipped millimetres past his off stump. Herath also had another lbw appeal that was this time sent for a review, before Murali's wiles eventually extracted him on the sweep in the 27th over. Nevertheless, the collective effort has given England's bowlers something to chew on. Another thrilling finale is in prospect. 

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New Zealand VS South Africa Jacob Oram takes New Zealand into Semi Finals

New Zealand 221 for 8 (Ryder 83, Taylor 43, Morkel 3-46) beat South Africa 172 (Oram 4-39) by 49 runs 

Oh South Africa, what have you done? Earlier this month Graeme Smith tweeted an article titled 'Time to ban the 'C' word'. Hold on to that thought Smith, for clearly that time hasn't come yet. South Africa were cruising at 108 for 2 in the 25th over when Jacques Kallis fell and they crash-landed spectacularly to be shot out for 172. The self-destructive streak was demonically masochistic in nature and it will perhaps require shrinks to understand this dramatic denouement. Once they realised their opponents were cracking under pressure, New Zealand went in for the kill, with close-in fielders and disciplined bowling, led by Jacob Oram who took four wickets and a great catch.

Even when Kallis fell, to a blinder of a catch from Jacob Oram, rushing to his left at deep midwicket, there wasn't much to suggest that this could turn into another contender for all-time greatest choke in World Cup history. The pitch was slow but there was no sharp turn; the bowlers were disciplined but there was no sensational game-breaking spell; none of the three spinners got much purchase from the wicket; and the total was below par; but for some reason South Africa were feeling extremely claustrophobic.

Their nerves were best represented by the dismissal of JP Duminy, who played an awful shot to open the choke gates. Nathan McCullum slowed up the pace on a delivery that landed on a length, outside off, and Duminy went so hard into an ugly cut that he ended up dragging the ball on to his stumps. With Duminy's fall, South Africa were in a spot of bother at 121 for 4, in the 28th over, and the first signs of something special loomed over Mirpur.

There was more heartbreak for South African fans in the next over. Faf du Plessis hit straight to midwicket and ran like a headless chicken. AB de Villiers should have perhaps refused that call, but he responded, only to find himself well short of the crease. It was at this moment that New Zealand really sensed that this could be their night. And they moved in for the kill.

The moment was so ripe that even Daniel Vettori, not known for sledging, gave some lip to du Plessis. Even Kyle Mills, who had carried drinks on to the field at the fall of de Villiers, got into the act. A visibly agitated du Plessis shoved Mills, the departing de Villiers returned to support his partner, and eventually the umpires had to get involved. New Zealand's players swooped in to the crime scene and it was a classic Youtube moment. You could almost feel the pressure-cooker situation out there.

New Zealand crowded the bat with close-in men, ready to sledge and eager to pile on the pressure, and Johan Botha cracked in the 33rd over. It was a lovely legcutter from Oram and Botha played down the wrong line to lose his off stump. Oram, who was the man who started it all with that Kallis catch, wasn't done yet. In the 35th over, he lured Robin Peterson into edging an attempted cut to the keeper and South Africa were swaying away like drunken men at 132 for 7. South Africa's nerves were frayed further when Dale Steyn square drove Nathan McCullum in the air to backward point, where who else but Oram accepted the offering.

If Oram was the man in the forefront of New Zealand's resurgence, du Plessis was the man seeking redemption for making that wrong call that led to the run out of de Villiers. In his brief international career, he has already shown that he has the tenacity to remain relatively calm under pressure. And he wasn't ready to throw in the towel. He was on 14 when Steyn fell, and he took ownership of the chase. He rushed down the track to slam Tim Southee to the straight boundary in the 40th over, on drove Vettori to collect another four in the 41st, and even lifted Oram for a thrilling six over long-off in the 43rd over.

It was in the same over that the game turned for one last time, and it was also an over that captured the entire madness of the evening. du Plessis had crashed the first delivery of the over back at Oram who couldn't hold on to a very difficult chance, and once the six was hit, one had to ask the question: was the night turning for Oram? Was it swinging towards du Plessis? But du Plessis sliced the fifth ball straight to extra cover and South Africa had well and truly sunk into oblivion.

The end was a far cry from the way South Africa started the day. They attacked with spin and seam, shuffled their bowlers regularly like a pack of cards, and hustled on the field to keep a tight leash on New Zealand. Jesse Ryder and Ross Taylor were at the forefront of a revival from the depths of 16 for 2; carefully, almost mindful of a potential lower-order collapse on this pitch, Ryder and Taylor battled through. The odd boundary signalled growing comfort, but they never broke away decisively. A nervy equilibrium had been reached by the end of the 30th over with New Zealand reaching 112 for 2 and the game was waiting to be seized. However, both Ryder and Taylor departed in quick succession but Kane Williamson made a vital 38 to push New Zealand to 221. 

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India Enters the Semi Finals Defeating Australia by 5 Wickets. Thanks to Hero Yuvraj Singh Performance again

India Won by 5 Wickets in the Quarter Finals & Australia out of this ICC Cricket World Cup 2011. Thanks To Heroic and historical innings of  The Lion of Punjab Yuvraj Singh 54 runs (65 balls) & Brave Suresh Raina 34 Runs(28 balls) showed his magic again.

Yuvraj Singh After Winning Four    Image Courtesy ESPN cricinfo

Now India play their Semi finals against Pakistan on 30th march in Mohali. This is 5 th times when india enters in World cup Semi Finals of Cricket World Cup.

Before this Gautam gambhir 50 runs (64 balls) & Sachin Tendulkar 53 Runs (68 balls) helps India to give good start and base to Indian batting but after of quick falls of Indian wickets The Hero of Indian Team of this world cup Match Winner Yuvraj Singh strikes again & Suresh Raina.

One of the black Day of Rickey Ponting career . Now Australia out of this ICC Cricket World cup 2011. Australia is the 3 times world cup champion.

While Batting First Australia is able to manage 260/6. Rickey Ponting scored a 104 runs(118 balls).

Indian Bowlers Zaheer Khan(2/53), R Ashwin (2/52) & Yuvraj Singh taken (2/44) wickets of Australia.

MAN OF THE MATCH -- Yuvraj Singh (4th time in World Cup 2011)

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Yuvraj Singh Scored Century & Bowling in ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 Vs West Indies & India Won by 80 runs

 Yuvraj Singh Scored Century & Bowling in ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 Vs West Indies & India Won by 80 runs 

Yuvraj Singh Lion Of Punjab

The Left handed batsman &  Lion of Punjab Yuvraj singh magical performance in ICC Cricket World cup 2011 helps win by 80 runs against West indies. While batting first after out of  Sachin Tendulkar on 2(4 balls)  in very first over of match on the bowl of Ravi Rampaul (5/51) after that Gautam Gambhir 22(24 balls) also failed to big score after good start. Then Virat Kohli 59 runs (76balls) & Yuvraj Singh 113 runs( 123 balls with 2 sixes and 10 fours) played a historical innings to help India in a comfortable Situation. After Dismissal of  Yuvraj singh and Virat kohli Indian middle order batting line up collapse and lost 6 wickets in  just 50 runs.

West Indies batsman are going very good to chase the target of 269 but `thanks to our Indian Bowlers Zaheer Khan (3/26) , R Ashwin(2/40) and Our man of the match Hero Yuvraj Singh (2/18) in 4 overs helps India to another win in Cricket World Cup.




Match Summary 



India, who chose to bat

India 268/10 in 49.1 overs

Virat Kohli 59 runs (76balls)
Yuvraj Singh 113 runs( 123 balls with 2 sixes and 10 fours)

West Indies Target to Win 269 in 50 overs

West Indies 188/10 in 43 oves
D Smith 81 (97 Balls)


Zaheer Khan (3/26)
 R Ashwin(2/40)
Yuvraj Singh (2/18)

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India Lost Against South Africa by 3 Wickets in Nagpur Group B Match

Thanks to Ashish Nehra for his last over which he given 13 runs in just 4 balls.Robin Peterson was on the strike and he hits Four, Six, Two, Four  of the Nehra's last over and South Africa won the Match against India by 3 Wickets and 2 balls remaining .

India lost his first match in ICC cricket world cup 2011. Before this Virender Sehwag & Sachin Tendulkar gives India a solid opening. India loose Virender sehwag(73)  at 142 after this Gautam Gambhir 

AB de Villiers hitting a huge Six

Beware of that batting Powerplay. India absent their endure nine wickets for 29 runs and you wouldn't accept believed it if you hadn't apparent it. South Africa were staring down the butt at the end of 38 overs. India were aimless at 253 for 1, Sachin Tendulkar was canoeing accomplished 100, and a huge absolute seemed a authoritativeness if they took the batting Powerplay and gaped in abhorrence as disaster-gate comatose their party. India absent four wickets for 30 runs and burst to 296 in a amazing appearance of play in Nagpur. It's a assurance of times that 296 feels a par total. Admittedly, the angle slowed up as the bold progressed and hinted at demography about-face and India's hopes blow on that.

Fittingly, it was the brace of Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel, who bled runs with the new ball, who did the accident during this berserk phase. Tendulkar fell to an across-the-line hoick, his aboriginal animal attempt of the day, in the 40th over to Morne Morkel. Steyn had a bifold bang in the next over: Gautam Gambhir backed alfresco leg and biconcave a slower one to mid-off and Yusuf Pathan accursed to cover. Things got worse if Yuvraj Singh swung a abounding bung to long-on of the final supply of the Powerplay, and it angry anarchic if Virat Kohli gave a acclimatized acknowledgment bolt to Robin Peterson. In the amplitude of a few minutes, the bold had coiled out of India's ascendancy and alternate to balance. Steyn even went on to complete a five-for, something that was hardly believable if he was aperture runs with the new ball, if he bankrupt up the tail.

Until that beauteous appearance of play, it was all India. Until again even 375 seemed a possibility. On Twitter, Ian O'Brien bent the annihilation in the aboriginal overs in Nagpur perfectly: "Currently sitting in a corner, agitation aback and forth, accepting Indian nightmare. Poor bowlers, it's not fair." On a batting pitch, Tendulkar alert with his about serene aggression, and Virender Sehwag addled with his casual strokeplay, as India ashamed up 174 by the half-way mark.

If Sehwag pumped in the adrenalin, Tendulkar oozed class. Controlled assailment is a appellation about bandied about but there has been rarely a bigger affectation of it than the one provided by Tendulkar at Jamtha. If you just noticed the strike-rate, it would be appetizing to say he formed aback the alarm and was his adolescent adventuresome adolescent cocky but it was a absolute mix of abnegation and aggression. There was not a individual attempt that looked chancy and yet he played all the shots, even a absorbed six, a attempt that he doesn't play too generally these days. Tendulkar faced just 20 assurance in the aboriginal ten overs but had raced abroad to 35 and his fifty came off 33 balls. Yet there was not one berserk shot. It was in the eighth over, from Morkel, that he absolutely got traveling with an alarming adduce through the covers, which was followed by a attractive beeline drive. Like always, he captivated his affectation even as Morkel was down on the mat. It was a moment that altogether bent the biased battle.

When Steyn accursed a bouncer in the 10th over, Tendulkar connected a beautiful angle to drop it above the astern square-leg boundary. If Jacques Kallis bowled a slower one, Tendulkar glided advanced and beyond to whip the off cutter accomplished mid-on. Unlike Sehwag, Tendulkar played the spinners as per the demands of the brawl but of advance on his own terms. He went down the clue to attic over long-on, he collection straight, he played chaotic with the about-face and as always, formed the angles.

Sehwag's aperture advance was a apple of his batsmanship: adventurous hits, a few beat and misses, an close action to ascendancy his adrenalin rush, and again some added audacity. The aboriginal brawl set the tone: it was an outswinger from Steyn that arced abroad from the off and average band but Sehwag swatted it up and over mid-on for a four. He should accept been out in the next over if Morne Morkel induced an bend from an on-the-up flash, but Morne Van Wyk, the keeper, artlessly froze. A accomplished on-the-up adduce through the covers, a agreeable beeline drive and a clap cut helped him aggregate 13 runs from the eigtht over bowled by Morkel.

Curiously, for a batsman who thrives on innovation, he got ashore into a set arrangement adjoin the spinners and it brought about his downfall. He again backed abroad from leg butt and approved to hit aggregate through off. He did aces up a brace of boundaries, but fell binding an attempted cut on to the leg butt adjoin Faf du Plessis.

Even as the aggression continued, you were larboard apprehensive whether Graeme Smith could accept done annihilation different. Perhaps, he could accept brought in the spinners beforehand - Robin Petersen came on in the 12th over with India on 93 for 0. Perhaps he could accept angry to Johan Botha eventually rather than cat-and-mouse until the 17th over. Curiously, he autonomous for JP Duminy advanced of Botha, but already Botha came in, the run-rate started to affluence up and slowed down added as India went into alliance approach afterwards the abatement of Sehwag. India added 37 runs in nine overs as they went from 137 for 0 in 16 overs to 174 by the 25th over. India circumscribed through Tendulkar and Gambhir but came abolition down if they took that Powerplay. 

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India Won by 5 Wickets Vs Ireland Cricket World Cup 2011 Group B Match

Yuvraj Singh The Real Hero of India's Victory against  Ireland in Group B Match of ICC Cricket World Cup 2011.

Yuvraj Singh 5/31 & 50* on 75 balls Score and Yusuf Pathan smashing 30* on 24 balls helps to this great indian win in this world cup and now India is on top of Group B Match with 5 points in 3 matches.

One time India has loose 5 wickets only on 167 when MS Dhoni Departs on 34  (50 Balls)

Yuvraj Singh The Real Hero of India's Victory against  Ireland in Group B Match of ICC Cricket World Cup 2011.

Virender Sehwag     5 (3 balls)
Sachin Tendulkar     38 (56 balls)
Gautam Gambhir     10 (15 balls)
Virat Kohli              34 (53 balls)
Ms Dhoni               34  (50 Balls)
Yuvraj Singh          50 (75 balls)
Yusuf Pathan         30 (24 balls)

Man Of the Match : Yuvraj Singh

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ICC Cricket World Cup 2011: Australia Lanka Match Is Canceled Due To Heavy Rains

COLOMBO: World Cup Match, with defending champions Australia and Sri Lanka here today has been said, when heavy rains.

Both sides taking a point each after the match was abandoned.

The choice of the bat, Sri Lanka 146 for three after 32.5 Transfers to open the R Premadasa Stadium here.

Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara and Thilan Samaraweera was defeated 34 to 73, then.

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INDIA VS IRELAND CRICKET WORLD CUP 2011 MATCH

AT M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore, cricket spectators watched two high voltage dramas in the last week. First, in-spite of scoring 338 runs, India tied their match against England on Sunday, February 27. Next, on March 2, Ireland upset the English team by three wickets after chasing the Cricket World Cup record of 327 runs. The Irish batsman Kevin O'Brien scored the fastest 100 in world cups in just 50 deliveries.

MS Dhoni-led Indian team won the inaugural match of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 against Bangladesh by 87 runs. Team India is in third place in the points table after South Africa and West Indies in group 'B', whereas the Irish team is in the fifth spot with one victory.

Indian bowling attack is one of the biggest obstacles for team India to lift ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 trophy. In the last two matches, main weapons in the bowling department Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh and Munaf Patel conceded 321 runs for 13 wickets.

Meanwhile, Indian batsman scored more than 330 runs on both the occasions, however, during the last match against England, team India lost their last seven wickets for just 33 runs in four overs. Indian fielding is also a big concern for the team management. In this area Indians need to improve a lot.

Ireland started their ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 campaign with a loss against Bangladesh. In the next match they beat England. Prior to the World Cup, the Irish team lost to New Zealand by 32 runs and beat Zimbabwe by four wickets in the warm-up matches. Their batting is mainly dependent on O'Brien brothers (Kevin and Niall O'Brien), Ed Joyce and John Mooney.

Once again, if Dhoni will win the toss at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore, he will likely to decide bat first. Once again Indian batsmen will set a huge target for the Irish batsmen in the 22nd match of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011. Dhoni will likely to play with the same team who had played against England.

Indian and Ireland squads for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011:

India: MS Dhoni (capt/wk), Virender Sehwag(vice capt), Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, R. Ashwin, Piyush Chawla, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Munaf Patel and S. Sreesanth.

Ireland: William Porterfield (capt), Trent Johnston, Alex Cusack, Andre Botha, Kevin O'Brien, Niall O'Brien (wk), Nigel Jones, Ed Joyce, John Mooney, Paul Stirling, Gary Wilson (wk), George Dockrell, Boyd Rankin, Albert van der Merwe, Andrew White.

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Bowling With Cool Mind is The Key Of Success For S Sreesanth – Venkatesh Prasad

In the World Cup opening match versus Bangladesh Virender Sehwag & Virat Kohli played some attacking cricket that was really appreciable. Opening match of World Cup is really important for and the performances like this is good to see. But India Needs to work on his bowling and think upon his bowling action plan. Pitch was slow and not helping the fast bowlers in movement in air and for “Off The Wicket Side”.

Indian Fast Bowler S Sreesanth with his well known aggressions

Munaf Patel’s bowling performance was the biggest plus point for India to win the match against Bangladesh. He surprised the batsman & showed variations & did time to time slow bowling

So many news and talks about Indian fast bowler S Sreesanth who given 53 runs in 5 overs spell. But we have to still keep in mind that in Indian sub-continent pitches any best bowler can see this bad in his life. He is still highly rated bowler according to me because the ability to take the ball away from the right hander batsman & seem position. Although he does not quite bowl at the pace of a Mithcell Johnson or Brett Lee, he has that ability to rush batsman. What’s more, the edges will carry to the keeper and slips even on life-less tracks. The key to S Sreesanth is keeping calm and thinking clearly about what he would like to do.

In the last game you saw early on that some edges went past the stumps to the boundary and a confident lef-before shout was turned down. Sreesanth should not be disheartened when this happens. Rather he should think about the kind of deliveries he bowled. If they were good balls and somehow still went for runs, it’s ok, back yourself and repeat them, the rewards will come. I think it’s equally important fir the team to back Sreesanth and keep the faith in him If Indian team do that, I’m sure he will produce the kind of spells the team need in this world cup.


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Now, Viru questions Sreesanth's game

After hitting a magnificent 175 to kick start India's campaign in the 2011 World Cup Virender Sehwag has taken a dig at his mercurial teammate S Sreesanth. Sehwag, who was named the Man of the Match, quipped about the Kerala pacer, whose five overs cost India 53 runs and allowed Bangladesh to get off to a flying start in pursuit of a 371-run victory target at Mirpur.

Interestingly, India's latest problem child Sreesanth has come under fire from a number of his rival captains for his on field antics and even drew flak from his own captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni for the same. While speaking to the media after the match, the swashbuckling opener said that it was a good start for India and everybody had a good match except Sreesanth.

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Top 10 Lowest World Cup Totals

Chennai: After India and Bangladesh fought till the last ball to script a high scoring drama in the World Cup opener on Saturday, Kenya stole the limelight on Sunday with the fifth lowest World Cup team total. They singlehandedly manged to get themselves out for 69 in just 23.5 overs in their New Zealand outing. The Kiwis defeated Kenya by 10-wicket in the Group A match played in Chennai.

The following is the list of 10 lowest World Cup totals:
(Team, total, opposition, venue, World Cup edition):

Canada - 36 - Sri Lanka - Paarl – 2003.

Canada - 45 - England - Manchester – 1979.

Namibia - 45 - Australia - Potchefstroom – 2003.

Scotland -- 68 - West Indies - Leicester – 1999.

Kenya - 69 - New Zealand - Chennai – 2011.

Pakistan - 74 - England - Adelaide – 1992.

Ireland - 77 - Sri Lanka - St George's – 2007.

Bermuda - 78 - Sri Lanka - Port of Spain – 2007.

Namibia - 84 - Pakistan - Kimberley – 2003.

Sri Lanka - 86 - West Indies - Manchester – 1975.

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Akhtar, Akmal dope-tested ahead of ICC World Cup 2011

 Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar and wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal were amongst the first players to be taken for random dope testing ahead of the ICC World Cup 2011, according to a source.

35-year-old Akhtar and 29-year-old Akmal were tested after a practice session on Wednesday by the International Cricket Council's drug inspectors, the source said.

"It's normal to test players before and during a tournament," SAMAA TV quoted the source, as saying.
"Nothing fishy about it. Others will also be tested," he added.

Akhtar, who has been recalled for the World Cup after being out of action for a major part of the last three years due to a spate of injuries, had tested positive for a banned drug nandrolone in 2006.

Pakistan face England in a practice match in the Bangladeshi town of Fatullah on Friday, where the ageing Akhtar needs to perform to show his fitness level, before Pakistan's World Cup opener against Kenya on February 23. (ANI)

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India Won By 117 Runs Vs New Zealand 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup Warm Up Match

MS Dhoni Strikes Once Again With Smashing Century 

India won by 117 runs, Indian skipper Dhoni and Suresh Raina hard hitting proved costly. India vs New Zealand (Ind vs NZ) ICC World Cup 2011 warm up match was kicked off at Chidambram stadium, Chepak, Chennai on 16th February.

Score and Highlights: India 360/5 (50.0 overs) MS Dhoni 108* and J Oram 2/64. New Zealand 243/10 (43.1 overs) Brendon McCullum 58 and Harbhajan Singh 2/17.

India won the toss and decided to bat first. Virender Sehwag and Sachin opened the Indian innings and given decent start but both were dismissed in short time. Gautam Gambhir and Virat Kholi added century run stand. Gambhir missed out an opportunity of scoring century. Suresh and MS Dhoni shifted the gears and started scoring quickly in final overs.  Indian Captain MS Dhoni century and Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kholi and Suresh Raina half centuries helped India to impose huge total of 360.

MS Dhoni (108)* is the top scorer from India. Gautam Gambhir (89), Virat Kholi (55), Suresh Raina (50), Virender Sehwag (23) and Sachin Tendulkar (17) are the rest of performers.

New Zealand bowling attack, no specialist spinner in playing eleven and spinners like Nathan McCullum inexperience was cashed in by Indian batsmen. New Zealand bowlers, Tim Southee and Jacob Oram shared two wickets each and Kyle Mills had one wicket against his name.

New Zealand chasing huge total of 361 runs to win, they got a good start they were scoring five runs per over which was insufficient. The top three batsmen have scored some runs along with Brendon McCullum scoring half century and no other batsman had a real intent of winning the match. Positive sign for kiwis is that their top order scoring runs and middle inexperience is evident.

New Zealand scorecard: Martin Guptill (38), Brendon McCullum (58), Jesse Ryder (32), Ross Taylor (5), James Franklin (0), Scott Styris (20), Jamie How (15), Jacob Oram (12), Nathan McCullum (29)*, L Woodcock (9) and Kyle Mills (2).

Indian bowling attack, fast bowlers were not able to pick the wickets until spinners were introduced. Suresh Raina is the first wicket taker with his athletic fielding, spinners picked up seven wickets in the tally of ten. Ashish Nehra cleaned by the tail by dislodging last two wickets.

Indian bowlers, Ashish Nehra, Piyush Chawla, Harbhajan Singh and Yuvraj Singh have taken two wickets each and R Ashwin has settled with one wicket each.

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