2011 World cup
28 years after Kapil Dev lifted the Prudential World Cup, Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni did the honours in front of a packed Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. This after he led the chase for 275 runs as India won the 2011 Cricket World Cup final by six wickets.
BCCI
With Twenty20, the three-hour, 20-overs-a-side version, One-Day internationals and Test matches, cricket is the second most popular sport in the world. The ICC World Cup is the world’s second largest single sporting event, drawing a cumulative television audience of five billion.
God of Cricket Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin Tendulkar height may not be that big, but his stature is the biggest in the Cricketing world. Runs : 32647 (14692 T + 17955 O ), 200s : 7(6 T + 1 O), 100s : 99(51 T + 48 O), 50s : 152(59 T + 93 O)
Muttiah Muralitharan - The record machine
The highest number of wicket in International Cricket in both format Test and One day. 134 Tests: 800 wickets, 337 one day: 515 wickets. The most 5 wickets: 67times a world record. The world record for 10 or more wickets in a test: 22 times.
Yuvraj Singh Runs and Records Cricket World Cup 2011
After Kapil Dev Yuvraj Singh is the second indian player who took more than 10 wickets and scored above 300 runs. Before this Indian all rounder legend Kapil Dev took 12 wickets and scored 303 runs in 1983 cricket world cup.
Australia and their record
The Australian cricket team is the national cricket team of Australia. It is the equal oldest team in Test cricket, having played in the first Test match in 1877. Australia won the Cricket World Cup 4 times in total; 1987, 1999, 2003 and 2007.
Gaji
Afridi sets up victory against spirited Afghanistan
Pakistan 198 for 3 (Younis 70, Farhat 52) beat Afghanistan 195 (Sadiq 40, Nabi 37, Afridi 5-36) by seven wickets
Indian cricket star being treated for cancer in USA
Yuvraj Singh is undergoing chemotherapy to treat a cancerous increase that may have been bothering him even while he twisted his World Cup heroics last year.
The growth in his chest was initially consideration to be benign, but has recently been diagnose as wicked, and he traveled to the United States on Jan. 26 to seek treatment.
"It is a rare growth and is cancerous, but it has been detect in stage-one," Singh's physiotherapist, Jatin Chaudhary, was quoted as saying Monday by the Press Trust of India.
"Doctors had to decide whether to continue medicine or go for chemotherapy, but since parts of the cancer are just above the blood vessel of his heart, there was a danger that while running it could rupture. But it is 100 percent curable," he said.
Dr. Nitish Rohatgi, an oncologist in New Delhi's Max Hospital who has been co-coordinating with Singh's doctors in the United States, said the cricketer had been respond well to treatment.
"His growth is curable and he has been responding well to chemotherapy that is being administered since the end of January," Rohatgi told a news conference in New Delhi on Monday. "The chemotherapy will continue till the end of March and we are confident he will be cured."
Yuvraj Singh's mother Shabnam said in November that her son perhaps carried the illness through the World Cup in March and April last year, saying that the all-rounder suffered from constant "bouts of coughing and vomiting" during the competition and medical tests exposed a "golf-ball size lump over the left lung."
India's sports minister Ajay Maken has promised help to Singh.
"Wish Yuvraj a speedy recovery! Asking officials to find the quantum and nature of help necessary. Government should and will help him," Maken posted on Twitter.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India has wished Singh "a speedy recovery" in an e-mailed statement, in which it also asked the media to admiration the privacy of Singh and his family members.
The 30-year-old Singh, man-of-the-tournament during last year's home World Cup-victory, last played for India during a home test series against the West Indies in November.
Singh has played 37 tests, 274 limited-over’s internationals and 23 Twenty20 internationals.
He played a large part in India winning the World Cup for the first time since 1983, playing in all nine matches at the 2011 edition and causal 362 runs at a standard of 90 and taking 15 wickets at 25 with his left-arm spin.
Singh is also famous for outstanding six sixes in an over off England pace man Stuart Broad during the Twenty20 World Cup in 2007.
Singh's absence on India's current tour of Australia has been noticeable. India was trounced 4-0 in the test series and won just one of two Twenty20 matches before lose its opening one-dayer against Australia by 64 runs Sunday.
The Victorious winning India T20 vs. Australia
India 2 for 135 (Gambhir 56*) beat Australia 131 (Finch 36, Praveen 2-21) by eight wickets
From fervently opposing T20s in 2006 to being asked to stop the T20 overkill, the irony the BCCI finds itself in is blatant.
India finally broke all the way through for their first win of the tour thanks to a dazzling display in the field. Ravindra Jadeja provide the spark - and did no harm to his probability in Saturday's IPL auction - with a pair of run-outs as Australia's batsmen were constricted by intense pressure from the fielders, and were dismiss in the 20th over for 131.
From being World Champs in 2007 to No. 7 in the T20 rankings, the slide has been alarming. In a format where the better team is not always definite a victory, India has won a little more than 50 per cent of their matches till date.
In 33 matches as well as the Melbourne T20 on Friday, India have won 17 and lost 14. Not figures that reflect brightness, but absolutely more than average.
However, if we put their performances post the 2007 T20 triumph into standpoint, the bald patches become ever more visible, In 24 matches since, they have a win percentage of less than 50, including the ouster from the group stages of the 2009 and 2010 edition of the T20 World Cup in England and West Indies in that order.
From fervently opposing T20s in 2006 to being asked to stop the T20 overkill, the irony the BCCI finds itself in is blatant.
India finally broke all the way through for their first win of the tour thanks to a dazzling display in the field. Ravindra Jadeja provide the spark - and did no harm to his probability in Saturday's IPL auction - with a pair of run-outs as Australia's batsmen were constricted by intense pressure from the fielders, and were dismiss in the 20th over for 131.
From being World Champs in 2007 to No. 7 in the T20 rankings, the slide has been alarming. In a format where the better team is not always definite a victory, India has won a little more than 50 per cent of their matches till date.
In 33 matches as well as the Melbourne T20 on Friday, India have won 17 and lost 14. Not figures that reflect brightness, but absolutely more than average.
However, if we put their performances post the 2007 T20 triumph into standpoint, the bald patches become ever more visible, In 24 matches since, they have a win percentage of less than 50, including the ouster from the group stages of the 2009 and 2010 edition of the T20 World Cup in England and West Indies in that order.
