Story ICC Cricket World Cup, India 2011. [*Australian Squad*]

[Prithvi]

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The Cricket World Cup is the premier international championship of men's One Day International (ODI) cricket. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), with preliminary qualification rounds leading up to a finals tournament which is held every four years. The tournament is the world's fourth largest and most viewed sporting event. According to the ICC, it is the most important tournament and the pinnacle of achievement in the sport. The first Cricket World Cup contest was organised in England in 1975. A separate Women's Cricket World Cup has been held every four years since 1973.
The finals of the Cricket World Cup are contested by all ten Test-playing and ODI-playing nations, together with other nations that qualify through the World Cup Qualifier. Australia has been the most successful of the five teams to have won the tournament, taking four titles. The West Indies have won twice, while India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka have each won once.

This story will deal about the ICC Cricket World Cup, 2011, which is being hosted by India. The tournament will feature 12 teams, 68 matches which will be played in 10 venues, all over India.

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Index:
"All set for a big production"-Lorgat
Revised Schedule
Indian Squad
Cricket World Cup Express Kick Starts
Australian Squad

Special thanks to Zaxotes, who has allowed me to use his specially hand made 3-D logos.

 

[Prithvi]

"All set for a big production" CEO Lorgat.
3rd January, 2011, Mumbai.
Haroon Lorgat, the CEO of the ICC Cricket World Cup, 2011, said that the everything was ready for the mega tournament. He basically went to the venues and checked the things over there. Dharamsala, which was given the chance to host an ODI between India and New Zealand recently, has proved that it can be suited for hosting an ODI match, which offered it hosting few World Cup games.

"Cricket, for Indians, is not just a game." Haroon Lorgat.​

Haroon Lorgat said "I've checked every venue along with other officials and I've observed that the scenario is completely different from what I've noticed in the initial stage. Dharamsala will host few World Cup games, which we earlier kept under observation keeping the pitch and climatic conditions in mind." On the security, he said that he had deep talk with Indian ministry regarding it and he's satisfied with what is being provided.

"Cricket, for Indians, is not just a game. The way tickets are getting sold is something like a waterfall. The tickets for the Opening Ceremony, Opening match, all Indian based matches, Semi Final matches, Final match are completely sold right before 47 days of commencement of the tournament, which is something to be noted. This will be a dream tournament ever in the history. I'm waiting with anticipation to witness the matches with overflowing crowds, going on at a noisy stadiums." Lorgat added.

On re-scheduling, which came into light after state associations demanded for at least one Indian match in their venue, he said that modified schedule was already prepared and has been done in such a way that every venue gets at least one match of India.

"What has to be done is just the things which have to be done in last movement. The advertisements are being set up in several posters of all the metros. All the Indian Trains have been designed with Cricket World Cup pattern and there is a special train, which will start on 6th January from Chhtrapathi Sivaji Terminus, Mumbai. It'll initially pass through all the hosting cities (except Dharamsala) and then to all other cities, when the event is under progress." said Lorgat.

 

[AbhishekS]

A nice start to the story Binnu. Would be interesting to see how things go from here. All the best!

 

[Gaurav_7]

No Kenya and Canada?

 

[Prithvi]

No Kenya and Canada?

Actually, I don't follow those teams much. TBH, I don't follow even Zimbabwe Cricket, Ireland and Netherlands much. But still, I can do something with them, as I have bit of knowledge on those teams.

 

[Prithvi]

ICC Cricket World Cup, 2011 Schedule Announcement
The schedule of the ICC Cricket World Cup have been re-done as the state associations have demanded for atleast one Indian match per venue, which resulted in India playing in each and every venue for once in its group stage. the 12 teams have been divided into two groups of six each, where they'll be playing each other twice.

Dharamsala has been considered as a venue for the World cup, which means the Green Park Stadium in Kanpur will not be hosting any matches. The pools and the Groups are as follows:

Groups:
Group A:
Australia
England
India
Pakistan
Zimbabwe
Ireland

Group B:
New Zealand
South Africa
Sri Lanka
West Indies
Bangladesh
Netherlands

Group A matches:
19th feb- Australia v India at Bengaluru
20th feb- England v Pakistan at Chennai
21st feb- Ireland v Zimbabwe at Hyderabad
22nd feb- Ireland v Pakistan at Ahemdabad
23rd feb- Zimbabwe v Australia at Bengaluru
24th feb- England v India at New Delhi
25th feb- Australia v Pakistan at Kolkata
26th feb- Zimbabwe v India at Nagpur
27th feb- Ireland v England at Dharamsala
28th feb- India v Australia at Kolkata
1st mar- Pakistan v England at Ahemdabad
2nd mar- Zimbabwe v Ireland at Mumbai
3rd mar- Australia v England at Chennai
4th mar- India v Ireland at Mohali
5th mar- Pakistan v Zimbabwe at Mumbai
6th mar- Ireland v Australia at Mohali
7th mar- Zimbabwe v England at Kolkata
8th mar- Pakistan v India at Hyderabad
9th mar- Australia v Zimbabwe at Nagpur
10th mar- Pakistan v Ireland at New Delhi
11th mar- India v England at Dharamsala
12th mar- Pakistan v Australia at Hyderabad
13th mar- India v Zimbabwe at Ahemdabad
14th mar- England v Ireland at Bengaluru
15th mar- Australia v Ireland at New Delhi
16th mar- England v Zimbabwe at Dharamsala
17th mar- India v Pakistan at Mumbai
18th mar- England v Australia at Mohali
19th mar- Ireland v India at Chennai
20th mar- Zimbabwe v Pakistan at Nagpur

Group B matches:
19th feb- New Zealand v Sri lanka at Hyderabad
20th feb- South Africa v West Indies at Mumbai
21st feb- Netherlands v Bangladesh at Bengaluru	
22nd feb- Netherlands v West Indies at Nagpur
23rd feb- Bangladesh v New Zealand at Hyderabad
24th feb- South Africa v Sri lanka at Dharamsala
25th feb- New Zealand v West Indies at Mohali
26th feb- Bangladesh v Sri lanka at Ahemdabad
27th feb- Netherlands v South Africa at New Delhi
28th feb- Sri lanka v New Zealand at Mohali
1st mar- West Indies v South Africa at Nagpur
2nd mar- Bangladesh v Netherlands at Chennai
3rd mar- New Zealand v South Africa at Mumbai
4th mar- Sri lanka v Netherlands at Kolkata
5th mar- West Indies v Bangladesh at Chennai
6th mar- Netherlands v New Zealand at Kolkata
7th mar- Bangladesh v South Africa at Mohali
8th mar- West Indies v Sri lanka at Bengaluru
9th mar- New Zealand v Bangladesh at Ahemdabad
10th mar- West Indies v Netherlands at Dharamsala
11th mar- Sri lanka v South Africa at New Delhi
12th mar- West Indies v New Zealand at Bengaluru
13th mar- Sri lanka v Bangladesh at Nagpur
14th mar- South Africa v Netherlands at Hyderabad
15th mar- New Zealand v Netherlands at Dharamsala
16th mar- South Africa v Bangladesh at New Delhi
17th mar- Sri lanka v West Indies at Chennai
18th mar- South Africa v New Zealand at Kolkata
19th mar- Netherlands v Sri lanka at Mumbai
20th mar- Bangladesh v West Indies at Ahemdabad

Top four from each group will qualify to the Quarter Finals Round.
22nd mar- TBA v TBA at New Delhi
23rd mar- TBA v TBA at Kolkata
24th mar- TBA v TBA at Chennai
25th mar- TBA v TBA at Dharamsala

Semi Finals Round.
27th mar- TBA v TBA at Bengaluru
28th mar- TBA v TBA at Nagpur

3/4th Place Decider.
30th mar- TBA v TBA at Hyderabad

Grand Final.
31st mar- TBA v TBA at Mumbai

All the venues are given equal number of matches, where as Mohali and Ahemdabad will get six matches each instead of 7.

 

[Roofrom50]

Gotta go with the home country Australia here. The first pool will be a hard one to pick. With Australia, England and India fighting out the honors, while pool B would be the first 3 teams as well, New Zeland, Sri Lanka and South Africa.

 

[AbhishekS]

Group A is an easy one to predict. Australia, England, India and Pakistan to qualify to the QFs.

Group B looks a bit more interesting. There would be a tough competition between New Zealand and Bangladesh to be the fourth team qualifying for the QFs.

 

[Meet]

You could see tough fights in Group A with England, Australia and India, but I don't same gonna happen in other group.
If India wanna win the WC, they need to work really hard.

 

[Prithvi]

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[Prithvi]

India Squad- ICC Cricket World Cup, 2011.
Team India, the proud hosts of the ICC Cricket World Cup, have announced their 15 man squad for the ICC Cricket World Cup. They are the current no.1 test Team and no.2 ODI team, who have been playing pretty strong cricket since an year. Team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been planning for the World Cup since eight months, along with the coach Gary Kirsten and the BCCI selection committee.

The Indian chief selector, Mr. Krishnamachary Srikkanth has announced Indian squad 40 days right before world cup and 32 days right before their first official practice match against Australia. "We've been planning for this world cup for more than half an year, and the day has come for us, to announce the squad. We have to thank Indian Premier League, which has clearly put out many uncapped players into lime light and helped us to form this kind of side. Now, I'd like to read out the side, which we've made after deep deep discussions in telephone with MS Dhoni and Gary Kirtsen, who are currently in South Africa. Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Captain), Virender Sehwag (Vice Captain), Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Kumar Raina, Yusuf Khan Pathan, Virat Kohli, Saurabh Sunil Tiwary, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh, Praveenkumar Sakat Singh, Santakumaran Sreesanth, Pragyan Prayish Ojha, Ranganath Vinay Kumar and Ravichandran Ashwin."

PS: The ages of the players are when the World Cup starts, not the current ones.​

 

[Roofrom50]

That's a strong 15 man squad for India. There first match against Australia will certainly test them out and see where they're at in this tournament.

 

[riz7khan12]

great to see dharamsala hosting matches, a pleasant change from the other grounds in india. although i think that there should be a grass bank on the stadium this provides a more comfortable relaxed feel to the ground.

 

[Aditya]

India's squad is quite strong. Youngsters like Tiwary, Kohli, Mishra and Ashwin have got the chance to represent their country in the world cup and I hope they'll do well.

Keep up the good work, Binnu.

 

[Meet]

Thats a strong Indian side.Youngsters like Tiwary, Ashwin and Mishra will have a good chance to show their talent.