Saturday, March 10, 2007

World Cup Time Table - Ireland

March 15 Ireland vs Zimbabwe

March 17 Ireland vs Pakistan

March 23 Ireland vs West Indies

World Cup Time Table - Zimbabwe

March 15 Zimbabwe vs Ireland

March 19 Zimbabwe vs West Indies

March 21 Zimbabwe vs Pakistan

World Cup Time Table - Pakistan

March 13 Pakistan vs West Indies

March 17 Pakistan vs Ireland

March 21 Pakistan vs Zimbabwe

World Cup Time Table - West Indies

March 13 West Indies vs Pakistan

March 19 West Indies vs Zimbabwe

March 23 West Indies vs Ireland

World Cup Time Table - Canada

March 14 Canada vs Kenya

March 18 Canada vs England

March 22 Canada vs New Zealand

World Cup Time Table - Kenya

March 14 Kenya vs Canada

March 20 Kenya vs New Zealand

March 24 Kenya vs England

World Cup Time Table - New Zealand

March 16 New Zealand vs England

March 20 New Zealand vs Kenya

March 22 New Zealand vs Canada

World Cup Time Table - England

March 16 England vs New Zealand

March 18 England vs Canada

March 24 England vs Kenya

World Cup Time Table - Bangladesh

March 17 Bangladesh vs India

March 21 Bangladesh vs SriLanka

March 25 Bangladesh vs Bermuda

World Cup Time Table - Bermuda

March 15 Bermuda vs SriLanka

March 19 Bermuda vs India

March 25 Bermuda vs Bangladesh

World Cup Time Table - SriLanka

March 15 SriLanka vs Bermuda

March 21 SriLanka vs Bangladesh

March 23 SriLanka vs India

World Cup Time Table - The Holland

March 16 The Holland vs South Africa

March 18 The Holland vs Australia

Mach 22 The Holland vs Scotland

World Cup Time Table - Scotland

March 14 Scotland vs Australia

March 20 Scotland vs South Africa

March 22 Scotland vs The Holland

World Cup Time Table - South Africa

March 16 South Africa vs The Holland

March 20 South Africa vs Scotland

March 24 South Africa vs Australia

World Cup Time Table - Australia

March 14 Australia vs Scotland

March 18 Australia vs The Holland

March 24 Australia vs South Africa

World Cup Time Table - India

March 17 India vs Bangladesh

March 19 India vs Bermuda

March 23 India vs SriLanka

Sanath Jaysuria World Cup Stats

Sanath Jaysuria, former SriLankan Captain, was in great form in the 1996 World Cup. Was he not good at scoring runs? Yeah and that too in quick time. His attacking nature is a strong feature of his batting. He contributed a lot in Sri Lanka's victory in the 1996 Cricket World Cup. He was announced Man of the Tournament for his all-round contributions.

Sanath has played a total of 379 ODI with more than 11000 runs under his belt. His batting average is around 30 and has a top score of 189. He also has 285 wickets in his bag. His best bowling figure is 6/29 and has took 111 catches. This performance makes him a great all rounder.

Sourav Ganguly World Cup Stats

Sourav Ganguly, former Captain of Indian team has led India to the World Cup 2003 finals, and is now holding the Indian captaincy record for the most Test victories.

In the 1999 Cricket World Cup, Sourav Ganguly scored 183 against Sri Lanka. This is the highest by an Indian in a World Cup Cricket tournament. He was appointed Captain of the Indian team immediately after the World Cup. In the immediate next series in the 2000 Champions Trophy he scored 2 centuries.

Also during his captaincy for the 2003 World Cup final against Australia, Ganguly after winning the toss decided to field. The decision of fielding first had raised questions in the minds of the people. But Sourav was confident and backed his call of fielding first. According to Sourav there would have been moisture on the pitch that would have helped his bowlers. But his bowlers bowled very badly and also the captain batted very poorly. India lost the match my a big margin of 125 runs.

Ricky Ponting World Cup Stats

Australia’s leading one day international run-scorer and also a century maker, Ricky Ponting have now surpassed records previously held by Mark Waugh. In the 1996 Cricket World Cup, Ricky Point scored a century against the West Indies in Jaipur, which made him the youngest ever World Cup centurion.

Also in a match against India in the 2003 Cricket World Cup final Ricky Ponting scored 140 and was unbeaten. This was the highest by a captain in a World Cup final. This was the final, in which India were heavily defeated by a big margin of 125 runs. This is a record defeat margin (for World Cup Final matches) in which Ponting's brilliant 140 from 121 balls was a great feature.

Sachin Tendulkar World Cup Stats

Sachin has scored the most runs in World Cup Cricket History. He scored 1,732 runs at an average of 59.72.

In 2003 Cricket World Cup, Sachin Tendulkar was the only highest scorer who scored a highest by any player in a single Cricket World Cup. He scored 673 runs in his 11 Innings. Scored a hundred and scored 6 fifties. He bowled 18 overs and gave 77 runs and took two wickets. He also took catches in the tournament. He was awarded the player of the World Cup Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.

Ganguly - Chappel Relationships Improve

The difference of opinion between Ganguly and coach Greg Chappel is now a history. Sourav Ganguly has also forgotten about it. “I have good relationships with Greg Chappel” are the words when Ganguly spoke to some of the reporters.

Staying out of the Indian team for a whole year has made Ganguly change his attitude towards his way of playing cricket. He is now scoring runs and has gain confidence. Even team Indian wants him to play at his best and score runs and make India victorious.

Ganguly does not think that keeping away from cricket has helped him score runs. According to him he was out of form and now the form has returned. And so has he.

Sehwag and West Indies - A fiasco

In their final warm up match against the West Indies, India alongwith Ajit Agarkar, Munaf Patel and Irfan Pathan bowled out the opposing team for a mere total of 85 runs. But Sehwag was a big diappointment. Powel showed Sehwag the way to the pavilion without giving him a chance to open his run account.

The Indian bowling was great. At the start itself, Agarkar took the wicket of Cris Gayle and then Zaheer Khan took the wicket of Chanderpaul. Both were caught behind by Dhoni. After that Munaf Patel and Irfan Pathan were the two who continued taking wickets one after the other. Lara scored 22 which was the highest score for West Indies.

Munaf Patel bowled a very good spell by giving only 10 runs and taking 4 wickets while Pathan supported him by taking 3 wickets and giving only 25 runs.

Now it was to see how soon India reaches the small total of 85 runs posted by West Indies. Sehwag was a big disappointment but then the two Indian youngsters Dinesh Kartik and Robin Utappa sailed India to a victory in about 20 overs or so.

Friday, March 9, 2007

India-West Indies Warmup Match

Today India will be playing a warmup match with West Indies. This is their second warmup match after defeating Netherlands.

In other warmup matches Australia will be playing with England, Pakistan with South Africa and NewZealand with SriLanka. But the India-West Indies match is going to be the most interesting one. Because the hosting country will be playing it. The team has to create a strategy to play on medium pace wickets in West Indies. Such wickets are a test for both, batsman and bowlers.

In the first warmup match, Indian batsman played very well and we expect them to play the same in this second warmup match. India has lots of hope on Sehwag and hence he has to prove himself. Also Robin Utthapa and Dinesh Karthik have to prove their batting. The good thing for India is that Yuvraj is bowling very well these days and he is a good bowler to be used in the middle overs.

West Indies also expects Sarvan to play very well. Against Kenya Sarvan did not get a chance to show his talent. All other matches would also be interesting. Australia will get a chance to defeat England and take revenge of their loss. NewZealand will also try to Match the SriLankan team after their defeat against Bangladesh in their opening warmup match.

World Cup in India

Still one week left for the challenge for India winning this World Cup. But the ICC World Cup has reached India. The fan in K0lkatta gathered to see this trophy but the gold ring at the bottom had some defects and so there was chaos at the Metro tower.

LG Electronics, Global partner of the ICC World Cup had organise this prestigious event. Whether this is a replica of the original World Cup or not, the organisers confirmed that the trophy had been bought to Kolkatta from Delhi and will be going to Mumbai before it reaches West Indies.