Cricket World cup 2011, Biggest Tournament of Cricket World, Semi-Finals !

In 4 days we saw 4 quarter final matches in Cricket World cup, and in these 4 days 4 teams started there journey towards next round, that is semi finals and other 4 teams started there journey towards Home. In First match Pakistan thrashed West Indies comfortably and in second match we saw the World Champions, Australia, losing to India going empty hands this time, after winning 3 cricket world cup final (1999, 2003, 2007) consecutively. In 3rd match New Zealand won against South Africa, which was unexpected as South Africa was one of the strong contender to win this year world cup ! And in the last quarter Final match Sri Lanka won the match against England Comfortably.

Before I start talking about Semi Finals, let me give brief summary of quarterfinal matches.
Cricket World Cup 2011 Quarter Final Match - 1 : Pakistan v/s West Indies
Winner: Pakistan
Even before the match started many expected that Pakistan will win this match, as they are were doing good work from group stage matches by stopping opponents to score more runs. West Indies were struggling from there form as they received some major blow just before the tournament started, that is some players of West Indies were injured while practicing and some while playing match. And that is the reason they were bowl out for a score of 112 in 43.3 overs. Shahid Afridi (captainf of Pakistan team) and Pakistan Team showed great character while batting and won the match by 10 wickets.

Cricket World Cup 2011 Quarter Final Match - 2 : India v/s Australia
Winner: India
Considered to be one of the most exciting match of the tournament, and it turned out to be. India won the match against kangaroos a=made sure that kangaroo's journey towards winning the cup 4th time halt.

Cricket World Cup 2011 Quarter Final Match - 3 : New Zealand v/s South Africa
Winner: New Zealand
Everyone expected South Africa to win, but New Zealand made sure that expecttions can go wrong and won the match handsomely.

Cricket World Cup 2011 Quarter Final Match - 4 : Sri Lanka v/s England
Winner: Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka team is on a dream run. There openers are firing and making sure that there middle order is not exposed to new ball and they are giving solid opening partnership for there team. They won this match by defeating the creator of cricket game, England.

Semi-Finals:

Cricket World Cup 2011 Semi Final Match - 1 :  Sri Lanka v/s New Zealand
Winner: Sri Lanka
As I told earlier Sri Lankan team is on a dream run and they crushed New Zealand in 1st semi final and made sure they are in Finals, which is going to be held in Mumbai.

Cricket World Cup 2011 Semi Final Match - 2 : India v/s Pakistan
Winner: India
India met arch rivals, Pakistan on 30th march, 2011 in 2nd semi final match of the cricket world cup 2011 and made sure that also book there berth for Finals to meet Sri Lanka on 2nd April, 2011. Sachin Tendulkar was the top scorer of the match and was awarded man of the match for his effort. Though his innings was not too much convincing as he was given life 4 times in the match, courtesy Pakistani fielders.

Now..
The Finals will be played on 2nd April, 2011 in Mumbai. Make sure you don't miss the finals, as it will be one of the finest match ever played in history of cricket !

Cricket World cup 2011, Biggest Tournament of Cricket World, Group stage Winners & Quarter Finals !!

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Today I'll be sharing the Winners of group stage matches, the teams which qualified for quarter finals (knock out round) and the schedule for the knockout round in Cricket World cup 2011 in tabular and pictorial form. There are 49 matches to be played in total (1 Final, 2 Semi-Finals, 4 Quarter finals, 42 group stage matches (which are completed)). And match number (Match no. column) gives the match number of the match in the Cricket World Cup 2011. The winners are listed on the last column of the Table.

Winners for Group Stage Matches:

• Schedule for Group-A:

Group-A: Group stage Winners

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

• Schedule for Group-B:

Group-B: Group stage Winners

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

Schedule for Knockout Round (Quarter finals):

Quarter Final matches

Match No.	Teams playing	Venue	Match date & Type of Match (Day or D/N)
43	Pakistan v/s West Indies	Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh	23rd March, 2011 D/N
44	India v/s Australia	Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad, India	24th March, 2011 D/N
45	South Africa v/s New Zealand	Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh	25th March, 2011 D/N
46	Sri Lanka v/s England	R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka	26th March, 2011 D/N

Now, same schedule you can see in Pictorial form (compressed form),

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.

Observations:

• All the knockout round matches are day-nighters.
• The only team common in the first and the last match of the group stages matches is India !
• The Knockout round matches is based on points table, which I've shown below and explained about it briefly.
• The matches in quarterfinals are scheduled by seeing the Points table, that is the top team in one group will play against the bottom team in the points table from the other group and vice-versa. (This statement is valid only for the teams which qualified for knockout round).

The Points table for the group stage matches is as follows,
Group-A Points Table :

Group-B Points Table :

 

Note:

1. Based on the points table the teams qualify for the next round, that is knockout round in this tournament. The top 4 teams from each group (background colored in green) advanced into Quarter finals to fight the battle on cricket field to be the World champions in Cricket world !
2. In Table you could see some symbols and abbreviations, those are explained below,
   
   • Pld means number of matches a team played in group stage
   • W means number of matches a team win/won in group stage
   • L means number of matches a team Lost/lose in group stage
   • T means number of matches a team tied/draw in group stage
   • NR means number of matches a team playing doesn't yield any result/abandoned in group stage. For example, Sri Lanka and Australia has number 1 placed under this column as one of there match was abandoned, that is that match didn't have any result.
   • NRR means Net run rate of a team, and it is one of the main factors to decide teams fate. It calculated based on the team performance and the way they won the matches against there opponent.
   • Pts means points. A team is awarded 2 points for winning a match to the winning team, and in case if tie/draw/no result/abandoned 1 point is awarded to both the teams. It is the most important factor for a team to advance.
3. Points are given higher priority over anything for a team to advance into next round (that is, it has more importance than any other column in the table), and if points are equal then NRR has the priority (that is, it is the second most important factor to advance into next round). For example, If team A has points=6, NRR=1.456 and Team B has points=6, NRR=1.546 then Team B is placed higher in the table.

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

Top 10 Cricket World cup, Biggest Tournament of Cricket World, Batting innings!!

Hey Everyone,
Now we are seeing the 10th edition of cricket world cup and before this we have already seen 9 cricket world cups, Biggest Tournament of Cricket World. In previous editions of world cup we saw some swashbuckling batting performance by few cricketers who turned the tables, heads and made sure that there teams goes into next round in the cricket world cup or made sure that there team has good chance to advance in the tournament ! These innings entertained the crowd worldwide, which has the capacity to win the match for there team single handedly and gave bowlers tough times.
I'm going to share the top 10 batting innings as came in in a survey, the list is as follows,

1. Sourav Ganguly's (India) knock of 183 in 158 balls against Sri Lanka in the year 1999, 7th cricket world cup edition. He scored 183 runs which include 7 sixes and 17 fours. India lost initial encounters in the year 1999 and it was compulsory for them to win the big game against Sri Lanka, that to handsomely so that there chances to go in next round widen up, and Sourav Ganguly gave India this chance.
   
   
2. Viv Richards(West Indies) scored 181 runs in 125 balls against Sri Lanka, which include 7 sixes and 16 fours in the year 1987. He came to bat on the hat-trick ball and scored the highest individual score in cricket world cup (till then). This inning was very important from West Indies point of view as they lost previous world cup to India and they wanted the title back. This inning provided them the momentum.
   
   
3. Mathew Hayden's (Australia) knock of 158 runs in 143 balls against West Indies, which include 14 fours and 4 sixes in the year 2007. He played the role of anchor in this game. He wasn't able to open his account in 18 balls, that means his score was zero when he faced first 18 balls and then slowly changed his gear to reach 50 runs in 72 deliveries(balls) and then everyone saw the storm, which Mathew Hayden hided in his heart to hit the bowl hard and he reached 158 runs in quick time.
   
   
4. Adam Gilchrist (Australia) scored 149 runs in 104 balls, which include 14 fours and 8 sixes, against Sri Lanka in finals of the year 2007, that is 9th edition of the cricket world cup. And because of his knock Australia won the cricket world cup for the 3rd consecutive time and 4th time overall.
   
   
5. AB de Villiers (South Africa) scored 146 runs in 130 balls which include 12 fours and 5 sixes against Sri Lanka in the year 2007. West Indies's (then) captain, Brian Lara experimented with team selection in this match as they were already out of semi-final spot and AB de villiers made sure that South Africa reach Semi-finals by this knock.
   
   
6. Rahul Dravid (India), the wall or Mr. Dependable, scored 145 runs in 129 balls, which include 17 fours and 1 six, against Sri Lanka in the year 1999. In this knock he shared the world record partnership of 318 runs with Sourav Ganguly, which I've shared in my earlier articles.
   
   
7. Andrew Symonds (Australia) scored 143 not out in 125 balls against Pakistan, which include 18 fours and 2 sixes, in the year 2003. It was the first match of Australian team in the 8th edition of world cup and Australians saw something unusual in this match. Pakistani fast bowlers removed Adam Gilchrist, Mathew Hayden, Damien Martyn and Jimmy Maher in short span of time as Australia started their campaign. And it was Andrew Symonds along with Ricky ponting who saved the match for Australia.
   
   
8. Herschelle Gibbs (South Africa) scored 143 runs in 141 balls against New Zealand, which include 19 fours and 3 sixes, in the year 2003. Though this outstanding innings couldn't save South Africa from defeat, this inning is special and definitely comes in top 10 innings of cricket world cup.
   
   
9. Dave Houghton (Zimbabwe) scored 142 runs in 137 balls, which include 13 fours and 6 sixes against New Zealand in the year 1987. Although Houghton scored this majestic knock still they were not able to win as rest of the team disappointed Zimbabwe.
   
   
10. Scott Styris (New Zealand) scored 141 runs in 125 balls, which include 3 fours and 6 sixes, against Sri Lanka in the year 2003. This is the third majestic knock, I'm sharing, which was scored by batsmen of losing team. He batted like a sole survivor amidst a sinking ship, and as we know cricket is the team game and to win games team should perform and in this match New Zealand failed to win.
    
    

Observations:

• The team against which the top 10 innings are highest in number is Sri Lanka, that is 6 times in top 10 list  batsmen has scored majestic innings against Sri Lanka.
• There are 3 Australians, 2 Indians, 2 South Africans, 1 from New Zealand, 1 from West Indies and 1 from Zimbabwe in the top 10 list.
• All the knocks which I shared are 140+, and only two of them are 180+.

Recently, Virender Sehwag(India) scored 175 against Bangladesh, which India won and Andrew Strauss (England) scored 158 against India, which was a draw, in this edition of world cup. I guess these two knocks will come in top 10 batting knocks as this year world cup advances. Hope you liked this article on Cricket World cup top 10 batting innings.
I'll be coming with more articles related to cricket world cup and the facts related to it, till then keep surfing and have fun.. :)

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