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

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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.
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Cricket World cup 2011, Biggest Tournament of Cricket World, Facts-3 !!

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Here is the final list of facts which I'll be sharing before the finish of 10th Cricket world cup 2011, the biggest tournament of cricket world. I'm naming these facts as fact-3 !
You can see the previous facts which I've already shared from below links,
Cricket World cup 2011, Biggest Tournament of Cricket World, Facts !!
Cricket World cup 2011, Biggest Tournament of Cricket World, Facts-2 !!

Fact-26:

Glenn McGrath (Australia) has dismissed highest number of batsmen in world cup matches, that is he has dismissed 71 batsmen in all the world cup matches he played. The others in the list are Wasim Akram, who took 55 wickets and then it is Muttiah Muralitharan, dismissing 53 batsmen. These 3 are the only bowlers who took more than 50 wickets in all world cup matches. Also, these are the top 3 bowlers in terms of number of wickets they took in world cup tournament.

Fact-27:

Number of All rounders who scored more than 500 runs and took more than 25 wickets in world cup tournament: 4
And the Top 3 players in this category are,

1. Imran Khan of Pakistan, scored 666 runs and dismissed 34 batsmen
2. Kapil Dev of India, scored 669 runs and dismissed 28 batsmen
3. Sanath Jayasuriya of Sri Lanka, scored 1165 runs and dismissed 27 batsmen

Another allrounder who achieved this feat is, Steve Waugh of Australia, scored 978 runs and dismissed 27 batsmen

Observation:

Only Sanath Jayasuriya of Sri Lanka scored more than 1000 runs and took more than 25 wickets in above list of allrounders.

Note: Here I gave more importance to wickets, that is number of batsmen allrounder dismissed and then runs, in giving the rank.

Fact-28:

The only pair of batsmen who has aggregated more than 1000 runs in partnership are Adam Gilchrist and Mathew Hayden of Asutralia. Together they scored 1220 runs in 20 innings, that is 20 times they played together in all the world cups. They scored 521 runs in 2003 world cup, that is 8th world cup, and 699 runs in 2007 world cup, that 9th (last) world cup tournament, both the world cup tournaments Australia won.

Note: Adam Gilchrist and Mathew Hayden are also considered as one of the best opening batsmen pair world has ever seen. Also, Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly of India are one among the best, I would say THE BEST opening pair, opening pairs World has ever seen.

Fact-29:

The record for the highest runs scored by a pair of batsmen in one inning in world cup matches is held by Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid. They scored 318 runs for second wicket against Sri Lanka in the year 1999, 7th world cup tournament. This record is also the highest runs scored by pair of batsmen for any wicket.

Fact-30:

Only two players has appeared in 6 world cup tournaments (including this (10th) world cup tournament). They are Javed Miandad of Pakistan and Sachin Tendulkar of India. Javed Miandad represented Pakistan in 1975, 1979, 1983, 1987, 1992 and 1996 world cup tournaments and Sachin Tendulkar represented India in 1992, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2011 world cup tournaments. Also, these are the only two players who played more than 5 cricket world cup, the biggest tournament of cricket world, in there career.

Hope you liked the facts which I shared in this post. I'll be sharing the other list of facts after the end of 10th cricket world cup tournament. So keep surfing and learn new things which are shared on web !

Cricket World cup 2011, Biggest Tournament of Cricket World, Facts-2 !!

Hello again !
I'm back with some more interesting facts about Cricket World cup matches and players involved in it. I'm gonna start with Fact No.11 in this article, as I've already shared 10 facts in my previous article @ Cricket World cup 2011, Biggest Tournament of Cricket World, Facts !! :).

Fact-11:

No. of hundreds scored in World Cup matches: 103 (72 by right hand batsmen and remaining, 31 hundreds by left hand batsmen). Australians lead the list in scoring number of centuries in World Cup matches. Australians has scored 21 centuries till now, Indians has scored 15, West Indies players scored 13, Pakistanis has scored 13, New Zealanders scored 11, England 8, Sri Lankans scored 2, South Africans scored 6, Zimbabwean scored 4, Netherlands player scored 2, Ireland players scored 1 and Canadians scored 1 century, that makes total of 103 centuries !

Fact-12:

1st Hundred in World cup was scored by Dennis Amiss (England) vs India in the year 1975 (first cricket world cup, biggest tournament of cricket world edition), 50th hundred was scored by Mark Waugh (Australia) vs New Zealand in the year 1996, 100th century of World cup tournament was scored by Matthew Hayden (Australia) against New Zealand.

Fact-13:

Highest Individual Score in World Cup Matches: 188 by Gary Kirsten (South Africa), present Indian cricket team coach, in the year 1996 against UAE. Next in the list comes Sourav Ganguly (India), who scored 183 against Sri Lankan's in the year 1999. Third highest score is 181 which was achieved by Viv Richards (West Indies) against Sri Lanka in the year 1987 and it was the highest score by any captain in a world cup match. So, in Top 3 we have Gary Kirsten, Sourav Ganguly and Viv Richards.

Fact-14:

Top 3 Highest individual scores by Wicket Keeper:

1. Adam Gilchrist (Australia) scored 149 against Sri Lanka in the year 2007.
2. Rahul Dravid (India) scored 145 against Sri Lanka in the year 1999.
3. Dave Houghton (Zimbabwe) scored 142 against New Zealand in the year 1987.

Fact-15:

Highest Individual score by a batsmen for losing cause: 143 by Herschelle Gibbs (South Africa) against New Zealand in the year 2003.

Fact-16:

Highest aggregate score by batsmen in world cup edition:

1. Sachin Tendulkar scored 673 runs in the year 2003.
2. Matthew Hayden scored 659 runs in the year 2007.
3. Mahela Jayawardene scored 548 runs in the year 2007.
4. Ricky Ponting scored 539 in the year 2007.
5. Sachin Tendulkar of India scored 523 in the year 1996.

Important observations in the top 5 (which has top 3) scorers:

• Only 2 batsmen scored more than 600 in a world cup edition.
• Only there are 5 instances, listed above, when batsmen scored more than 500.
• Sachin tendulkar is listed twice !

Fact-17:

Highest No. of centuries in the World cup as a captain : 3 (Sourav Ganguly and Ricky Pointing shares the record).

Fact-18:

Top 3 Bowling Performance by a Bowler in a World Cup match:

1. Glenn McGrath (Australia) took 7 wickets by giving only 15 runs against Namibia in the year 2003 (Australia won this year world cup edition).
2. Andy Bichel (Australia) took 7 wickets by giving only 20 runs against England in the year 2003 (Australia won this year world cup edition).
3. Winston Davis (West Indies) took 7 wickets by giving only 51 runs against Australia in the year 1983 (India Won this world cup edition).

Fact-19:

Only 30 times bowlers took 5 wicket haul (which means bowler taking 5 wickets or more) in world cup matches till now. And in 90 occasions bowlers took exactly 4 wickets in all the world cup tournaments played till now.

Fact-20:

Glenn McGrath (Australia), Vasbert Drakes (West Indies), Gary Gilmour (Australia) and Asantha de Mel (Sri Lanka) share the record of capturing five or more wickets on most occasions, that is 2 occasions in World cup tournaments.
Shane Warne holds the record for capturing 4 wickets on most number  of occasions, that is 4 occasions.

Fact-21:

Best Bowling performance for losing cause:
Shane Bond (New Zealand) taking 6 wickets and giving only 23 runs against Australia in the year 2003.

Fact-22:

No. of occasions in World cup matches when bowler giving 80 or more than 80 runs in there quota of overs: 16
And only 1 time a bowler gave more than 100 runs in bowling. This record is hold by Martin Snedden of New Zealand, he took 2 wickets giving 105 runs !

Fact-23:

Records Hold by Wicket Keepers in terms of number of wicket-keeping dismissals:

1. Adam Gilchrist (Australia) holds the record with 52 dismissals (7 stumps and 45 catches) in all the World cup editions he played.
2. Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka) is 2nd in the list with 32 dismissals (6 stumps and 26 catches).
3. Mark Boucher (South Africa) is 3rd in the list with 31 dismissals, and all of them are catches.

And next in the list comes Moin Khan, who has a share in 30 dismissals with 23 catches and 7 stumps. 

These are the only 4 wicket keepers who has dismissed 30 or more than 30 batsmen in World cup matches.

Fact-24:

Ricky Ponting holds the record for taking highest number of catches, when we count total number of catches in all the world cups, as a fielder. Next in the list are Sanath Jayaruriya, Chris Cairns, Inzamam-ul-Haq and Brian Lara.

Fact-25:

Mohammad Kaif of India holds the record for highest number of catches in a World cup match (inning). He took 4 catches in one inning against Sri Lanka in the year 2003 (the only World cup he played). And then there are 21 fielders who took 3 catches in a inning in a World cup match.

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

Hello everyone,
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.

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