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.
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.. :)

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 :)

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

Let me start my article by asking a simple question, Do you like Cricket ?
Nope ? Did I asked something wrong ?
Okay, let me re-write it, Do you love Cricket ?
Now, probably your answer is YES !! And if your answer is still No, then probably this article can change your view, as the amount of excitement involved in this game is equivalent to anyother game!!

Let me give you an introduction to the Biggest tournament of Cricket, which is held every four years (same as Olympics, FIFA world cup, and many major tournaments) !!! Many teams participate in this tournament to win this tournament, it involves ODI matches (that is 50 overs per side, that is on an average a match will end in 7 hours). There are group matches, and then super 6/8 (depending on the teams participating), also known as quarter finals, then you have semifinal (having only 4 teams) and then you have final (2 teams, and one will be the winner !!). This was a brief introduction in general about Cricket world cup. Also, it is the 3rd largest and the biggest tournament, related to sports on the Earth !

Now, I share some highlights of the Cricket World cup 2011,

• No. of teams participating: 14
• No. of countries Hosting: 3 (India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh)
• No. of groups: 2 (7 in each group)
• No. of teams advances to next round (quarter finals): 8 (Top 4 from each group)
• First Match date (inauguration match): 19th February, 2011 (India v/s Bangladesh)
• Last Match date (Final Match): 2nd April, 2011
• Total No. of Venues: 13 (2 from Bangladesh, 3 from Sri Lanka, 8 from India).
• No. of umpires selected for the whole tournament (excluding reserve umpires): 18
• Mascot: Stumpy (shows young and energetic standing elephant)
  
• Names of Knockout Rounds: Quater, Semi and Final (group stage matches are not knockout).
• Total No. of matches: 49 (1 Final, 2 Semi-Finals, 4 Quarter finals, 42 group stage matches).
• No. of matches each team will play in group stage: 6

See the below image, which shows the venue for the quarter final, semi-final and final matches with dates !

Pictorial view of Knock Out Rounds

Now, I would be sharing how the teams are divided (alphabetically sorted),

Group A:

• Australia
• Canada
• Kenya
• New Zealand
• Pakistan
• Sri Lanka
• Zimbabwe

Group-B:

• Bangladesh
• England
• India
• Ireland
• Netherlands
• South Africa
• West Indies

We will be sharing more information, as the tournament starting date approaches !
Till then Good bye from our side, and have fun.. Keep surfing !!