Cricket World cup 2011, Biggest Tournament of Cricket World, Facts !!

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I'm back with some interesting facts which can improve your knowledge about cricket and history of cricket world cup ! I'll be sharing 10 facts which are really interesting and mind boggling. I chose them randomly, which I would call it as top 10 world cup facts.
I'm gonna share more facts in my next article about cricket world cup facts-2 :D
As the cricket world cup 2011 is nearing, I'm focusing more on cricket world cup and trying to share the stories, facts, etc. about Cricket World cups. Cricket World cup tournament was started in the year 1975 and it was won by West Indies comfortably. In those times ODI matches used to be 60 overs each side instead of 50 overs each side (which is played presently, by name ODI).

Fact-1:

No. of Countries who have won this Title: 5 !
And they are (in alphabetical order of country name),
Australia (1987, 1999, 2003, 2007) ->4 times
India (1983) ->1 time
Pakistan (1992) ->1 time
Sri Lanka (1996) ->1 time
West Indies (1975,1979) ->2 times

Fact-2:

Only Australia has won 3 or more than 3 world cup title and they are the only team which has won world cup 3 times in a row !

Fact-3:

Australia is the only team to win more than 50 World cup matches !
They have played 69 matches in World cup tournament and won 51 matches, one tied and 17 lost. That means winning percentage is 73.9, almost 74% !

Fact-4:

Highest Score reached by a team in a World cup match is 413 and this was achieved by India against minnows Bermuda in the year 2007. They broke the previous record held by Sri Lankans, that is 398 against another minnows Kenya in the year 1996.

Fact-5:

Lowest total scored by any team in World cup matches is 36 all out, by Canada against Sri Lanka in the year 2007.

Fact-6:

The highest margin by which any team has won against opposition in terms of runs is India. Indian thrashed Bermuda in the world cup 2007 by 257 runs. It is the largest victory margin with respect to runs.

Fact-7:

In terms of wickets, there are 7 instances when a team won against there opposition by 10 wickets, and that is the maximum margin they can win in terms of wicket !

Fact-8:

Sachin Tendulkar of India holds the record for most 50+ scores in World cup matches. He has scored 50+ runs 17 times, which includes 4 century and 13 half centuries.
Next in the list is Herschelle Gibbs (2 centuries, 8 half-centuries) of South Africa and Ricky Ponting (4 centuries, 6 half-centuries) of Australia having scored 10 times 50+ score.

Note: Century means 100 or more than 100 runs scored, and half century means 50 or more than 50 runs scored.

Fact-9:

Sachin Tendulkar of India holds the record for scoring highest amount of runs in World cup matches, that is he scored 1796 runs from only 36 games. And then in the list comes, Ricky Ponting of Australia, Brian Lara of West Indies, Sanath Jayasuriya os Sri Lanka, Adam Gilchrist of Australia, Javed Miandad of Pakistan, Stephen Fleming of New Zealand, Herschelle Gibbs of South Africa, Aravinda de Silva of Sri Lanka, Viv Richards of West Indies, Sourav Ganguly of India and Mark Waugh of Australia. Each have scored 1000+ runs in World cup tournament the amount of runs scored decreases in the order I gave.

Fact-10:

Glenn McGrath and Ricky Ponting holds the record for appearing in highest number of matches in World cup Tournaments, each has played 39 games in World Cup till now. And others who are in the range of 35+ games in world cup are Sanath Jayasuriya played 38 matches, Wasim Akram played 38 matches and Sachin Tendulkar played 36 matches in world cup.

Hope you liked the way I presented these facts. I'll be sharing the facts version 2 in short time, till then keep surfing and have fun.. :)

Cricket World cup 2011, Biggest Tournament of Cricket World, Schedule !!

Last Time I gave you a brief introduction about Cricket world cup 2011, The Biggest tournament of Cricket World, remember ?
No ? Then I would strongly recommend you to visit Cricket World cup 2011, Biggest Tournament of Cricket World !! so that you get an idea about the tournament we are discussing/sharing, teams participating in the tournament, venues, etc...
Today I'll be sharing the schedule of matches to be held in Cricket World cup 2011. There are 49 matches to be played in total (1 Final, 2 Semi-Finals, 4 Quarter finals, 42 group stage matches). You can see the match schedule in tabular way. And match number (Match no. column) gives the match number of the match in the Cricket World Cup 2011.

Schedule for Group Stage Matches:

• Schedule for Group-A:

Group-A: Group stage Matches

Match No.	Teams playing	Venue	Match date & Type of Match (Day or D/N)
2	Kenya v/s New Zealand	M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, India	20th February, 2011 Day
3	Canada v/s Sri Lanka	Hambantota International Cricket Stadium, Hambantota, Sri Lanka	20th February, 2011 Day
4	Australia v/s Zimbabwe	Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad, India	21st February, 2011 D/N
6	Kenya v/s Pakistan	Hambantota International Cricket Stadium, Hambantota, Sri Lanka	23rd February, 2011 D/N
8	Australia v/s New Zealand	Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur, India	25th February, 2011 D/N
10	Pakistan v/s Sri Lanka	R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka	26th February, 2011 D/N
13	Canada v/s Zimbabwe	Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur, India	28th February, 2011 Day
14	Kenya v/s Sri Lanka	R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka	1st March, 2011 D/N
17	Canada v/s Pakistan	R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka	3rd March, 2011 D/N
18	New Zealand v/s Zimbabwe	Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad, India	4th March, 2011 Day
20	Australia v/s Sri Lanka	R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka	5th March, 2011 D/N
23	Canada v/s Kenya	Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi	7th March, 2011 D/N
24	New Zealand v/s Pakistan	Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, kandy, Sri Lanka	8th March, 2011 D/N
26	Sri Lanka v/s Zimbabwe	Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, kandy, Sri Lanka	10th March, 2011 D/N
30	Canada v/s New Zealand	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, India	13th March, 2011 Day
31	Australia v/s Kenya	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru, India	13th March, 2011 D/N
32	Pakistan v/s Zimbabwe	Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, kandy, Sri Lanka	14th March, 2011 D/N
35	Australia v/s Canada	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru, India	16th March, 2011 D/N
37	New Zealand v/s Sri Lanka	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, India	18th March, 2011 D/N
39	Australia v/s Pakistan	R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka	19th March, 2011 D/N
41	Kenya v/s Zimbabwe	Eden Gardens, Kolkata, India	20th March, 2011 Day

• Schedule for Group-B:

Group-B: Group stage Matches

Match No.	Teams playing	Venue	Match date & Type of Match (Day or D/N)
1	Bangladesh v/s India	Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh	19th February, 2011 D/N
5	England v/s Netherlands	Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur, India	22nd February, 2011 D/N
7	South Africa v/s West Indies	Feroz Shah Kotla, New Delhi, India	24th February, 2011 D/N
9	Bangladesh v/s Ireland	Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh	25th February, 2011 Day
11	England v/s India	M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, India	27th February, 2011 D/N
12	Netherlands v/s West Indies	Feroz Shah Kotla, New Delhi, India	28th February, 2011 D/N
15	England v/s Ireland	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru, India	2nd March, 2011 D/N
16	Netherlands v/s South Africa	Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, India	3rd March, 2011 Day
19	Bangladesh v/s West Indies	Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh	4th March, 2011 D/N
21	England v/s South Africa	M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, India	6th March, 2011 Day
22	India v/s Ireland	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru, India	6th March, 2011 D/N
25	India v/s Netherlands	Feroz Shah Kotla, New Delhi, India	9th March, 2011 D/N
27	Ireland v/s West Indies	Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, India	11th March, 2011 Day
28	Bangladesh v/s England	Chittagong Divisional Stadium, Chittagong, Bangladesh	11th March, 2011 D/N
29	India v/s South Africa	Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur, India	12th March, 2011 D/N
33	Bangladesh v/s Netherlands	Chittagong Divisional Stadium, Chittagong, Bangladesh	14th March, 2011 Day
34	Ireland v/s South Africa	Eden Gardens, Kolkata, India	15th March, 2011 D/N
36	England v/s West Indies	M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, India	17th March, 2011 D/N
38	Ireland v/s Netherlands	Eden Gardens, Kolkata, India	18th March, 2011 Day
40	Bangladesh v/s South Africa	Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh	19th March, 2011 Day
42	India v/s West Indies	M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, India	20th March, 2011 D/N

Note:

• D/N means Day-Night match, and it will start at 2:30 PM IST, that is 14:30 IST
• All Day matches will start at 9:00 AM IST.
• IST = GMT + 5:30
• Bengaluru and Bangalore indicate same city (Bengaluru is alias/pet name for Bangalore or you can say it is vice-versa). So, don't get confuse when somebody says you that match is in Bengaluru but not in Bangalore.

I've given the schedule of knockout round of this world cup in the pictorial way in my last post. You can see the image from Cricket World Cup 2011, Biggest Tournament of cricket knock out rounds schedule .It includes the venue and date of the match, but it doesn't include the type of the match, as all the knockout round matches are scheduled as Day-Night matches.
You can see the schedule in stylish way, that in a oval shape (cricket ground shape) developed in flash from everything-underthe-sun :)

We will update you with more information about this tournament (Biggest tournament of cricket) as the tournament approaches. Hope you like this article also, keep surfing while having fun :)