Cricket World Cup 2011

**RenuCK** · 02-24-2011, 05:17 AM

The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup is the tenth Cricket World Cup and is being played in Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka. It is Bangladesh's first time co-hosting a World Cup. All matches in the World Cup will be accorded One Day International status, with all matches being played over 50 overs. Fourteen national cricket teams will compete in the tournament, including ten full members and four associate members.The World Cup will take place between February and early April 2011, with the first match 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 was held on 17 February 2011 at Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka, two days before the start of the tournament, with the final on 2 April 2011 at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.

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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. The headquarters of the organising committee were originally situated in Lahore, but have now been shifted to Mumbai. Pakistan was supposed to hold 14 matches, including one semi-final. Eight of Pakistan's matches were awarded to India, four to Sri Lanka and two to Bangladesh

**RenuCK** · 02-24-2011, 05:36 AM

World Cup Cricket 19/2/2011

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India have won the first match of the 2011 Cricket World Cup against Bangladesh by 87 runs. The Group B match was played at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur, Bangladesh.

Bangladesh won the toss and chose to bowl first. In the Indian innings, Virender Sehwag scored the highest total, 175 runs off 140 balls, his highest one-day international score and Virat Kolhi played his debut World Cup match and scored a century, while remaining unbeaten on 100.

The first referral of the World Cup came after the 4th ball of the 2nd innings was bowled. India's Shanthakumaran Sreesanth had bowled a yorker and the umpire declared it not out. Dhoni referred it to the TV umpire and a replay showed it might have missed the leg stump, so the original decision was upheld. The match marked the debut of the controversial umpire referral system in World Cup cricket.

**RenuCK** · 02-24-2011, 05:42 AM

New Zealand vs Kenya 20/2/2011

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New Zealand vs Kenya cricket World cup 2011: New zealnd will face Kenya for his first match in ICC Cricket World Cup 2011. New zealand have some really poor performance in last many series they lost like every match in last three series. But before the Start ofWorld Cup 2011 they are enough confident for a good show and with better performance in whole Cricket World Cup 2011. ICC Cricket world cup 2011 New Zealand vs Kenya match will be played at 09:30 local and 04:00 GMT on 20 February 2011, MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai.

**RenuCK** · 02-24-2011, 05:53 AM

Sri Lanka v Canada 20/2/2011

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Sri Lanka vs Canada match Cricket world cup 2011: Sri Lanka’s first cricket world cup 2011 match Sri Lanka vs Canada will be played on 20 February 2011. All cricket fans are waiting for this great match because of Srilankan team and also as a host. ICC Cricket world cup 2011 Sri Lanka vs Canada match will be played at 14:30 local and 09:00 GMT on 20 February 2011, Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium, Hambantota.

**RenuCK** · 02-24-2011, 06:11 AM

Australia v Zimbabwe 21/2/2011

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Fourth match of world cup 2011 is fixed between Australia and Zimbabwe of group A at 21st February 2011 in India at Sardar Patel Stadium Motera, Ahmedabad. It is going to be a day night match and the timings are scheduled as 14:30 Local, 09:00 GMT and 14:00 PST. Zimbabwe Cricket team is a team that has seldom shone in the world cricket with their performances while Australia is very hard side for Zimbabwe because they are world champions of ICC Cricket World Cup for 1987, 1999, 2003 and 2007. Australia is the only country which had won all the trophies contested internationally. Zimbabwe has announced their 15-men Squad for the Cricket World Cup 2011 in which Elton Chigimbura is named as the Captain and the rest of squad includes Regis Chakabva, Charles Coventry, Graeme Cremer, Craig Ervine, Sean Ervine, Greg Lamb, Shingirai Masakadza, Chris Mpofu, Ray Price, Ed Rainsford, Tatenda Taibu, Brendan Taylor, Prosper Utseya, Sean Williams.Australian squad includes Ponting as captain while rest are Clarke (vice-capt), Bollinger, Haddin , Hastings, Hauritz, D Hussey, M Hussey, Johnson, Lee, Paine , Smith, Tait, Watson, White. Zimbabwe have never gone far from first round in previous world cups but as it is said that cricket is by chance, so we can hope that Zimbabwe can bounce back from their current form in 2011 World Cup and can throw challenges to big teams even Australia. Australian cricket team is also in its self confidence and never say die attitude. It is a general perception of cricket lovers that Australia is most favourite because of world champion but you never know about future.

**RenuCK** · 02-24-2011, 06:19 AM

England v Netherlands 22/2/2011

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The 5th match of ICC cricket worldcup 2011 live is going to played between England vs Netherlands. This is a Group-B match will be played at Nagpur Stadium. Here you can watch ICC World Cup 2011 Netherlands vs England Live Streaming. You can also watch England vs Netherlands Live Score of 5th ODI of World Cup 2011 at Nagpur Stadium. So watch live England vs Netherlands cricket worldcup match

**RenuCK** · 02-24-2011, 07:24 AM

Pakistan v Kenya 23/2/2011

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In the sixth match of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 between Pakistan vs Kenya at Mahinda Rajapaksha International Cricket Stadium in Hambantota, Sri Lanka this afternoon, Pakistani captain Shahid Afridi won the toss and decided to bat first.

**RenuCK** · 02-25-2011, 05:26 AM

South Africa v West Indies24/2/2011

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South Africa threw up a big surprise in their first match of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 against West Indies. Not too long ago, if you told anyone South Africa played with 3 spinners on their team, you’d only hear laughter. But it looks like the Proteas are all set to try anything to win that World Cup for their trophy cabinet which has been eluding them for too long. Imran Tahir made his debut and made an instant impact. A slow and low Feroz Shah Kotla pitch didn’t play too well in West Indies’ favour as all of their top guns failed. Darren Bravo who is touted as the next Lara in West Indies cricket, showed a good mix of temperament and style to score 73. He looks like he can be a classy player. But then again, so did a lot of other West Indians.
None of the other batsmen got going and West Indies folded up for 222, with Tahir picking up for wickets on his international debut. He will be delighted.
South African run chase didn’t start off too well. They lost the two pillars that their batting has been built on for the last 12 months- Amla and Kallis- in very quick succession. West Indies looked like they were going to make a match of it. But they only flattered to deceive. Ab de Villiers and Graeme Smith provided the rescue act for South Africa and dug them out. De Villiers has averaged over 50 in his last 45 matches and he proved his class to the world yet again by scoring a brilliant century. JP Duminy got some runs under his belt too. South Africa delivered a top performance and will try their best to achieve the World Cup dream.

**RenuCK** · 02-26-2011, 09:42 AM

Australia v New Zealand 25.2.2011

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Shaun Tait. Brett Lee. Mitchell Johnson. The hostile fast men from Australia made an imperious statement in Nagpur. They breathed fire and New Zealand didn’t have the heart, and at least today, the skills, to extinguish them. Nathan McCullum and Daniel Vettori revived New Zealand from a disastrous 73 for 6, but a below-par 206 was not enough to avoid a crushing defeat. A flamboyant Brad Haddin and an imperious Shane Watson hit entertaining half-centuries to charge Australia home.
It was a shambolic effort from the New Zealand top order. Some of the deliveries didn’t deserve wickets but New Zealand were in the mood for self-destruction. They handled the best bowler on view, Lee, with caution and gave him just one wicket but imploded against Tait and Johnson. Both bowlers bowled enough tight deliveries to lure the batsmen into mistakes with deliveries that had some teasing width. It remains to be seen how they will fare against a better batting line-up. Will today’s wicket-taking deliveries be smashed for boundaries or will the batsmen continue to err on perceived pressure-releasing balls? Today, though, their efforts were enough to blow away New Zealand’s top order.
Brendon McCullum, who unfurled couple of fierce upper cuts against Tait, threw his bat at a full delivery well outside off, but edged it to third man. Jesse Ryder, who laced a few classy pulls against Johnson, stabbed a delivery that held its line outside off, to the wicketkeeper. James Franklin, looking out of place at No. 5, chased a wide delivery from Johnson to give Brad Haddin another catch. Scott Styris edged a wide and short delivery from Tait to Haddin and Ross Taylor played all around a full delivery from Tait to lose his off stump.
Everything that one expected from this Australian pace attack was visible today. It was expected they would either blow away the opposition or leak runs on flat tracks. Eleven fours came in the first 12 overs but the wickets too kept tumbling. Lee strangled the batsmen with his nagging line and length, Tait slung them in full and fast, Johnson went round-arm to catapult pacy deliveries and Watson was accurate enough to let the vagaries of the up-and-down track to do its bit.

**RenuCK** · 02-26-2011, 09:48 AM

Bangladesh v Ireland 25.2.2011

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Bangladesh’s bowlers held their nerve to atone for the failures of their batsman, as the pluck of the Irish proved insufficient to overcome the most fervent atmosphere of the World Cup so far. In a gripping, low-scoring encounter at Mirpur, Bangladesh flirted with disaster as they squandered a flying start from Tamim Iqbal to crash to 205 all out, and when Ireland reached 93 for 3 at the halfway mark of their reply, they were well on course for a hugely deserved victory. However, six wickets for the Bangladeshi spin quartet set the stage for a flying finish from Shafiul Islam, who claimed 4 for 21 in eight hostile and reverse-swinging overs, to seal a wildly acclaimed victory by 27 runs with five overs to spare.
The result was tough on the Irish who, like the Netherlands earlier in the week, gave the match their all and deserved a Test-playing scalp as their reward. But the belief and unity of the Bangladeshis had to be seen to be believed, as they dusted themselves down after a chastising performance with the bat, and set about defending their meagre total with skill, tenacity and some sublime commitment in the field. Mohammad Ashraful, whose mercurial batting once again let him down when the heat was on, proved a revelation with the ball, as his spin-bowling all-sorts picked up two vital wickets inside the first 19 overs, and whose subsequent celebrations imbued both his team-mates – and perhaps more crucially, a rammed and expectant Mirpur crowd – with belief.
There will be many higher-profile fixtures than this in the coming weeks, but few could prove as pivotal to the fortunes of two teams who exceeded expectations four years ago in reaching the Super Eights in the Caribbean. Ireland’s hopes of playing in the 2015 tournament hinge on their ability to produce this sort of performance in each of their next five matches, to convince the ICC that they deserve their place at the top table. But more immediately, Bangladesh’s victory gives them a real chance of pushing for a quarter-final place that their form in home internationals suggests could be attainable.