India vs England Cricket World Cup

Hosts and favorite India will take on another favorite England in the group matches of the ICC 2011 World Cup at Bangalore. The match was originally scheduled to be held at Eden Garden, Kolkata.But since the stadium was not ready so it was shifted to Bangalore. It will be a day night encounter. Bangalore wicket is always considered to be batting friendly in ODIs.

For India opener Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar is expected to give some fireworks in the beginning against a disciplined English bowling attack. India got the strongest middle order batting line up in the world in the form of Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, and Yuvraj Singh Captain MS Dhoni and hard hitting batsman Yusuf Pathan. These names are enough to be nightmare of any fast bowler in the world.

Match Details:
11th Match, Group B - India v England
M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Time: 9:00 GMT, 14:30 India.

The bowling line up of India is not as strong as compared to its batting line ups still on a good day bowlers like Zaheer Khan, who is in his best form of his career along with Sreesanth and Nehra if fit is likely to taste the English batsmen. Spinner Harbhajan Singh who is himself a character in the field along with Piyush Chawla and the spin of all rounder Yusuf Pathan is very good one as far as spin department is concerned.

Moreover Bangalore wicket has the reputation to assist spinners to some extent too.
For England it will be like an acid test for them and hope that the opening pair of Indian team doesn’t click against them.Engliand got strong batting line up and most of their batsman are in good form. Captain Andrew Strauss and likely opener Kevin Pietersen is expected to exploit the opening spell of Indian attack. Jonathan Trott, Ian Bell, Ravi Bopara and Paul Collingwood give stable to the middle order. But their weakness is exposed mostly against the spin attack.

The English team got a very good pace bowling attack which includes Stuart Broad, James Anderson and Tim Bresnan. Graeme Swann is a good spin bowler.
Team winning the toss will like to bat first on a flat track and it is expected to be 280 plus wicket. The winning chances of India to England is 60:40.

TEAMS:

India (from): MS Dhoni (captain, wkt), V Sehwag, SR Tendulkar, G Gambhir, V Kohli, YK Pathan, Y Singh, H Singh, Z Khan, S Sreesanth, MM Patel, R Ashwin, PP Chawla, SK Raina, A Nehra

England (from): AJ Strauss (captain), KP Pietersen, IJL Trott, IR Bell, PD Collingwood, MJ Prior (wkt), MH Yardy, TT Bresnan, SCJ Broad, GP Swann, JM Anderson, RS Bopara, A Shahzad

Umpires: B Bowden (NZ) and M Erasmus (SA)

Third umpire: R Tucker (Aus)

Match referee: R Mahanama (SL)

Australia vs Zimbabwe Cricket World Cup

Today's ICC Cricket World Cup clash between Australia and Zimbabwe will be telecast LIVE on ESPN and star sports. You can watch Cricket World Cup Australia vs Zimbabwe live score, Cricket World Cup 2011 live telecast on ESPN and Star Sports.

Australia, begin their title defence with a match against Zimbabwe at Motera in Ahmedabad.But in the first ODI match in the ICC Cricket World Cup, Zimbabwe coach has made it clear that they are in no way overawed by its reputation. The Aussies have a fine batting line-up in which Shane Watson and Ponting are crucial in the top order to lay the platform for others to build upon. Ponting, whose fabulous innings of 140 not out in 121 balls in the 2003 World Cup final buried Indian hopes, has come back into action after a long injury lay-off following a broken little finger sustained during the Ashes series against England. Brad Haddin looked rusty initially, though he settled down to play lovely lofted drives and sweeps off the spinners.

Teams:

Australia: Shane Watson, Brad Haddin (wk), Ricky Ponting (capt), Michael Clarke, Callum Ferguson, David Hussey, Cameron White, Tim Paine (wk), Steven Smith, John Hastings, Mitchell Johnson, Jason Krejza, Brett Lee, Shaun Tait, Doug Bollinger.

Zimbabwe: Elton Chigumbura (capt), Regis Chakabva, Charles Coventry, Graeme Cremer, Craig Ervine, Terry Duffin, Gregory Lamb, Shingirai Masakadza, Chris Mpofu, Ray Price, Tatenda Taibu, Tinashe Panyangara, Brendan Taylor, Prosper Utseya and Sean Williams.

Umpires: Asoka de Silva and Richard Kettleborough, Third umpire: Amish Saheba, Match Referee: Jeff Crowe

Cricket World Cup Statistical summaries

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ICC Cricket World Cup Man of the Match awards

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Memorable performances in the World Cup

Memorable performances in the World Cup Cricket

Since the first world cup events in 1975 till 2007, there were many memorable performances which were responsible for putting the team to the winning position from nowhere. These performances were responsible for awarding the players Man of the Match award or making them player of the tournament.

1975

In this first ever world cup a magnificent century by the West Indies captain Clive Lloyd of 102 runs ensured them to be the champion.

1979

In this second edition a century by the best ever ODI batsman Sir Vivian Richard popularly known as Viv ensured West Indies their consecutive Championship Trophy.

1983

In this world cup Kapil Dev came into bat when India were in dire position losing 5 wickets for less than 30 runs against the very new team Zimbabwe. Kapil played till then the best knock in ODI history of 175 not out. Till then it was the highest individual score.

1987

In this fourth edition of World Cup the world saw the first sportsman spirit shown by the West Indies fast bowler Courtney Walsh who asked the Pakistani batsman Salim Jaffer to return to the crease instead ok making him out. This caused them the match but West Indies did not regret.
Sir Vivian Richard scored breathtaking 181 runs against Sri Lanka.
Australian Fast bowler became national hero when took 5 wickets against the most favorite team then Pakistan thereby making big upset in the first semi final.
England batsman Graham Gooch used the reverse sweeps against the Indian spinners to score a century against another favorite India to make another big upset reaching final.
This world cup show the rise of Indian opening batsman Navjot Sidhu who popularize the stepping out shot against the spinners.


1992
This world Cup showed the use f so called modern days power play. Mark Greatbatch of New Zealand showed the world the ways to score at a very fast rate in the opening few overs and the introduction of the spinners within 5th over of the innings by New Zealand.
The spectacular and the importance of fielding was seen for the first time from south African player Jonty Rhodes who became more popular for his fielding than his batting ability. The world saw the rise of a star Inzamam Ul Haq who played one of the best knock in the history of world Cup against New Zealand in the semi final. The Final witnessed one of the best magic bowling spell by the best ever left hand bowler Wasim Akram.

1996
The world saw the rise of Arvind De Silva and Sanath Jayasurya. Brian Lara scored a magnificent century against South Africa. De Silva played memorable knocks against Kenya, India in the semi final and against Australia in the final.

1999
This world Cup saw the rise of Lance Klusner who punished all the bowlers with flat and power hitting. Steve Waugh showed rock solid mental strength to pull out Australia from the verge of defeat against South Africa by hitting his maiden ODI century.

2003

In this world cup Sachin Tendulkar played one of his career best knock to defeat Pakistan. His shot against Shoaib Akthar is still fresh in the mind of the people. Ricky Ponting played a captains knock in the final.

2007

This edition of World Cup saw the early exit of the two major teams India and Pakistan by the weak opposition Bangladesh and Ireland respectively. The final saw the explosive batting by the Australian batsman Adam Gilchrist who ensured them the Cup for three times in a row. This was the second edition where Australia became champion without losing any match.

2011 ICC Cricket World Cup

2011 ICC Cricket World Cup will be the tenth Cricket World Cup and will be hosted by three South Asian Test cricket playing countries: India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.The World Cup will take place between February and early April 2011, with the first match to be played on 19 February 2011 with co-hosts India and Bangladesh facing off at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur, Dhaka.

The opening ceremony will be held on 17 February 2011, two days before the start of the tournament.The final of the world cup would take place on 2 April 2011 at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.

Cricket fan searching for ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 schedule, Cricket World Cup 2011 fixtures, Cricket World Cup 2011 venue and Cricket World Cup 2011 teams will get information here. The World Cup was also supposed to be co-hosted by Pakistan, but in the wake of the 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team in Lahore, the International Cricket Council (ICC) decided to strip Pakistan of its hosting rights.

Cricket World Cup 2011 venue will be India as the main host of ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, Cricket World Cup 2011 venue includes stadiums of cities like Dhaka, Mumbai, Kolkata, Mohali, Colombo, Chennai, Nagpur, Ahmedabad, chittagong and Bangalore. Cricket World Cup 2011 venue also includes new venues like Pallekelle and Hambantota – both being in Sri Lanka.