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India Cricket Team: Twenty20 World Cup 2010

2010-03-26T02:55:00.000-07:00

Indian Cricket selectors announced 15 man squad for forthcoming Twenty20 World Cup 2010 championship tournament to be started from 30th April 2010. Following his poor performance with the ball, fast bowler Ishant Sharma could not find his place in the team. He is replaced by R. Vinay Kumar who is currently playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore IPL Cricket Team. Selectors have also dropped middle order batsman Virat Kohli. Among the others who could not find the place in the team are R. P. Singh and Pragyan Ojha, they have been replaced by Ashish Nehra and Piyush Chawla.

India Cricket Team for Twenty20 World Cup 2010

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Ravindra Jadeja, Zaheer Khan, Praveen Kumar, Ashish Nehra, R. Vinay Kumar, Dinesh Karthik, Rohit Sharma, Piyush Chawla

IPL Cricket 2010- Winners and Looser of the First Week

2010-03-19T02:00:00.000-07:00

The first week of IPL 2010 spanning from 12th March to 18th March 2010, 10 Twenty20 Cricket matches have been played. Mumbai Indians stood first in the point table with winning both of their games. Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab yet to open winning account. Rajasthan Royals the winner of the inaugural IPL tournament in 2009 have lost all the three games they played so far. Kings XI Punjab are also in loosing group of the first week of IPL 2010. Following is the position of IPL Cricket 2010 for the first week.

Team	Matches	Win	Lost	Points
Mumbai Indians	2	2	0	4
Kolkata Knight Riders	3	2	1	4
Royal Challengers Bangalore	3	2	1	4
Delhi Daredevils	3	2	1	4
Deccan Chargers	2	1	1	2
Chennai Super Kings	2	1	1	2
Kings XI Punjab	2	0	2	0
Rajasthan Royals	3	0	3	0

IPL Live on YouTube, IPL Highlights

2010-03-12T00:17:00.000-08:00

Click on the link below to watch IPL Live on YouTube Video Channel.

IPL live on YouTube

IPL season 3 is starting from 12th march, 2010 with opening twenty20 match between Deccan Chargers and Kolkata Knight Riders. Here is the good news for Cricket lover for whom TV channel is not available. Now you can watch IPL season 3 matches on YouTube IPL's channel. Click on link here to go to the IPL live on YouTube

IPL Cricket Teams 2010- IPL 2010 Players

2010-02-26T00:01:00.000-08:00

The third season of IPL is to start from Friday 12 March, 2010. Total 8 Cricket teams to take part and there will be total 60 matches in this Twenty20 champions league tournament. Following are the teams and their players list of IPL 2010 tournament.

Chennai Super Kings IPL Team

MS Dhoni, Ravichandran Ashwin, Hemang Badani, Subramaniam Badrinath, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Chandrasekar Ganapathy, Manpreet Gony, Shadab Jakati, Arun Karthik, Parthiv Patel, Suresh Raina, Sudeep Tyagi, Murali Vijay
George Bailey, Matthew Hayden, Michael Hussey, Justin Kemp, Albie Morkel, Muttiah Muralitharan, Makhaya Ntini, Jacob Oram, Thissara Perera, Thilan Thushara

Deccan Chargers IPL Team 2010

VVS Laxman, Ashish Reddy, Anirudh Singh, Azhar Bilakhia, Harmeet Singh, Monish Mishra, Pragyan Ojha, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, Rahul Sharma, Rohit Sharma, RP Singh, Tirumalasetti Suman, Bodapati Sumanth, Venugopal Rao, Arjun Yadav
Adam Gilchrist, Herschelle Gibbs, Ryan Harris, Mitchell Marsh, Kemar Roach, Dwayne Smith, Andrew Symonds, Chaminda Vaas

Delhi Daredevils Cricket Team

Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Joginder Singh, Sarabjit Ladda, Rajat Bhatia, Kedar Jadhav, Dinesh Karthik, Mithun Manhas, Amit Mishra, Ashish Nehra, Shashi Ranjan, Aavishkar Salvi, Pradeep Sangwan, Sarandeep Singh, Umesh Yadav
AB de Villiers, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Moises Henriques, Andrew McDonald, Farveez Maharoof, Dirk Nannes, Wayne Parnell, David Warner

Kings XI Punjab Team

Yuvraj Singh, Love Ablish, Amanpreet Singh, Adrian Barath, Bipul Sharma, Manvinder Bisla, Piyush Chawla, Karan Goel, Mohammad Kaif, Vikramjeet Malik, Irfan Pathan, Ramesh Powar, Reetinder Sodhi, Sreesanth, Shalabh Srivastava, Tanmay Srivastava
Kumar Sangakkara, Yusuf Abdulla, Ravi Bopara, James Hopes, Mahela Jayawardene, Brett Lee, Shaun Marsh

Kolkata Knight Riders Team

Sourav Ganguly, Varun Aaron, Ajit Agarkar, Ashok Dinda, Eklak Ahmid, Rohan Gavaskar, Murali Kartik, Harshad Khadiwale, Chirag Pathak, Cheteshwar Pujara, Wriddhiman Saha, Ishant Sharma, Laxmi Shukla, Manoj Tiwary, Ganapathi Vignesh
Chris Gayle, Brad Hodge, Iqbal Abdulla, Charl Langeveldt, Brendon McCullum, Angelo Mathews, Ajantha Mendis, Owais Shah

Mumbai Indians IPL Team

Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Shukla, Murtaza Ali, Shikhar Dhawan, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Dhawal Kulkarni, Chandan Madan, Ishan Malhotra, Abhishek Nayar, Ambati Rayudu, Rajagopal Sathish, Syed Sahabuddin, Aditya Tare, Saurabh Tiwary
Dwayne Bravo, Jean-Paul Duminy, Dilhara Fernando, Sanath Jayasuriya, Ryan McLaren, Lasith Malinga, Graham Napier, Kieron Pollard

Rajasthan Royals Team

Amit Gajanan Paunikar, Swapnil Asnodkar, Faiz Fazal, Abhishek Jhunjhunwala, Kamran Khan, Sumit Narwal, Naman Ojha, Munaf Patel, Yusuf Pathan, Syed Quadri, Abhishek Raut, Amit Singh, Siddharth Trivedi, Shrikant Wagh
Shane Warne, Johan Botha, Michael Lumb, Damien Martyn, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Morne Morkel, Graeme Smith, Shaun Tait

Royal Challengers Bangalore IPL Team

Anil Kumble, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Balachandra Akhil, KP Appanna, Rahul Dravid, Shreevats Goswami, Virat Kohli, Praveen Kumar, Abhimanyu Mithun, Manish Pandey, Sridharan Sriram, Robin Uthappa, Vinay Kumar
Mark Boucher, Dillon du Preez, Jacques Kallis, Eoin Morgan, Kevin Pietersen, Steven Smith, Dale Steyn, Ross Taylor, Roelof van der Merwe, Cameron White

Sachin Tendulkar Becomes First to Score 200 Runs in ODI

2010-02-24T05:02:00.000-08:00

Playing his 442nd ODI match, Sachin Tendulkar becomes the first batsman to score 200 runs in one day international Cricket. This was the 2962nd ODI match in Cricket history, yet no one scored double hundred before this. The previous highest record was 194 runs shared by Pakistan's Saeed Anwar and Zimbabwe's Charles Coventry.

It took 147 balls to reach the milestone of 200 runs. His previous best was unbeaten 183 against New Zealand in 1999. This was flawless hitting by him including 25 boundaries and 3 sixers and it helps India reach massive total of 401/3 in 50 overs.

He also hold record of total career runs for both test and one day cricket. He scored 17598 runs in 442 ODIs with an average of 45.12 and made 13447 runs in his test career in 166 matches with an average of 55.56.

Top 5 ODI Scrores by Sachin Tendulkar

200* in 147 Balls v South Africa at Gwalior 24 Feb 2010
186* in 150 Balls v New Zealand at Hyderabad 8 Nov 1999
175 in 141 Balls v Australia at Hyderabad 5 Nov 2009
163* in 133 Balls v New Zealand at Christchurch 8 Mar 2009
152 in 151 Balls v Namibia at Pietermaritzburg 23 Feb 2003

Best Individual ODI Scores

200* By Sachin Tendulkar v South Africa in 2010
194* By Charles Coventry v Bangladesh in 2009
194 By Saeed Anwar v India in 1997
189* By Viv Richards v England in 1984
189 By Sanath Jayasuriya v India in 2000

South Africa Cricket Tour of India 2010

2010-01-29T02:16:00.000-08:00

South Africa to tour India in February 2010. In this Cricket tour, South Africa will play two test matches and three one day internationals. The first of the tests will start from February 6 and will be played at Nagpur. The other test match will be played in Kolkata from Feb. 14 to Feb. 18. Then there will be three one day internationals to be played on 21, 24 and 27th of February 2010 at Jaipur, Kanpur and Ahmedabad respectively.

South Africa Test Cricket Team:

Following poor performance in the recent series against the England, Makhaya Ntini has been dropped from the test team. F. de Wet is the other player who have been dropped from the team. They are replaced by fast bowler Lonwabo Tsotsobe and spinner Johan Botha.

G Smith, A Prince, H Amla, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, P Harris, Jacques Kallis, R McLaren, J Botha, Mark Boucher, M Morkel, W Parnell, Alviro Petersen, Dale Steyn, Lonwabo Tsotsobe.

South Africa ODI Team :

Herschelle Gibbs has been recalled for the ODI series while Hashim Amla, Langeveldt, R McLaren have been dropped who were the part of the team for recent series against England.

Graeme Smith, L Bosman, J Botha, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, H Gibbs, Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher, A Morkel, M Morkel, W Parnell, Alviro Petersen, Dale Steyn, Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Roelof van der Merwe.

India Cricket Team for the first Test :

Following the injury during the Bangladesh tour Rahul Dravid, Yuvraj Singh and Sreesanth will miss the first test in this series against South Africa. Wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik has been dropped from the team and replaced by W. Saha while Tamil Nadu batsman S Badrinath have been included in the team for the first test match.

MS Dhoni, V Sehwag, G Gambhir, S Badrinath, Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, M Vijay, W Saha, Harbhajan, Z Khan, Amit Mishra, PP Ojha, Ishant Sharma, Sudeep Tyagi, Abhimanyu Mithun.

Sri Lanka Cricket Team- Tri Series Cricket 2010

2010-01-01T23:16:00.000-08:00

Sri Lanka Cricket Team for the forthcoming Tri Series Cricket 2010 has been announced.

Jayasuriya, all rounder and the most experienced player, has been dropped from the team following his poor display in India. So far he was part of Sri Lanka cricket team for 444 ODIs and he made 11825 runs.

Chamara Kapugedara, Lasith Malinga, Ajantha Mendis are the other players, who were the part of latest India tour, also been dropped for this tri series to be played in Bangladesh.

The other players not selected in the team due to injury are Mahela Jayawardene, Angelo Mathews, Muttiah Muralitharan and Dilhara Fernando. They have been replaced by Chamara Silva, Malinga Bandara, Lahiru Thirimanne, Thilan Thushara.

Sri Lanka lost their latest ODI series against India by 1-3.

Following is the 15 man Sri Lanka team for the Tri Series to be played in Bangladesh. The other teams to take part in this series are India and Bangladesh.

Sri Lanka Cricket Team:

Kumar Sangakkara, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Upul Tharanga, Thilan Samaraweera, Thilina Kandamby, Chamara Silva, Lahiru Thirimanne, Thissara Perera, Muthumudalige Pushpakumara, Malinga Bandara, Suraj Randiv, Thilan Thushara, Suranga Lakmal, Nuwan Kulasekara and Chanaka Welagedera.

England Tour Of South Africa 2009-2010 : Cricket Tours

2009-11-07T00:18:00.000-08:00

England's Cricket Tour of South Africa 2009-2010 started with the warm up 50 over match with Eagles Cricket team. The tour consists of two Twenty20, 5 One Day Internationals followed by four test matches.

Twenty20 Matches Schedule

In this Cricket tour England will play two Twenty20 Internationals. The first match scheduled on 13th Nov 2009 to be played at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg. The remaining Twenty20 match will be played at SuperSport Park, Centurion on 15th Nov.

One Day Internationals

There will be five One Day Internationals to be played in this bi-national Cricket series. It starts with the day night game on 20th November at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg. Following is the complete list of all the ODI.

Nov 20 12:30 GMT New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Nov 22 08:00 GMT SuperSport Park, Centurion
Nov 27 12:30 GMT Newlands, Cape Town
Nov 29 08:00 GMT St George's Park, Port Elizabeth
Dec 04 12:30 GMT Kingsmead, Durban

Test Matches

The First Test match will be played on SuperSport Park, Centurion and will be played from 16 to 20 of December.

Dec 16 to 20 SuperSport Park, Centurion
Dec 26 to 30 Kingsmead, Durban
Jan 03 to 07 Newlands, Cape Town
Jan 14 to 18 New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

Champions League Cricket 2009

2009-10-07T02:07:00.000-07:00

Champions League Cricket 2009

Introduced for the first time will be hosted in India. This tournament will be played between top Cricket league teams from different countries. These teams are divided into 4 groups and the tournament will proceed in 3 stages as described by following.

Group Stage

The teams are divided into four groups 3 teams each and they will compete each other for first two positions. The Groups are as following.

Group A (A1 Deccan Chargers (A2 Somerset (A3 Trinidad & Tobago
Group B (B1 NSW Blues (B2 Eagles (B3 Sussex
Group C (C1 Royal Challengers Bangalore (C2 Cape Cobras (C3 Otago
Group D (D1 Delhi Daredevils (D2 Victoria (D3 Wayamba

The first two teams finishing in each group will be promoted to next stage, the league state. Note that they will retain the same League positions irrespective of their winning positions along their winning points and NRR. For example if in a group B team E2 finishes first, still they retain their 2nd positions. If the team from the first two could not qualify then the third team will take their position.

League Stage

Qualified teams from the group stage will be divided into two league of 4 teams each as following. At this stage each team will retain their winning points again the other team along with their NRR. So the winner of group stage will be having advantage over the loosing team. In the league stage they will compete for Semi Final.

League A: A1, A2, B1, B2
League B: C1, C2, D1, D2

Final And Semi Final

Now the teams ending at first two positions of the league stage shall proceed to the Semi Final stage. And the two winners from the semi finals will play the final and compete each other to be the first winner of Champions League Twenty20 Tournament.

India tour of Australia First Test MCG

2007-12-25T04:18:00.000-08:00

The first test match of India tour of Australia 2007 will start from the Boxing Day (26th December 2007) at MCG. At Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) nine test matches played between Australia and India so far. Australia win 6 times, India 2 times and one was drawn. This is the test match number 10 between these two countries and the 100th test match at this ground overall. Australia won 56 times out of the 99 matches played so far on this ground with 28 won by other teams and 15 were drawn. Looking at this record this is going to be tough for Indians to fight against them on MCG. Moreover India not prepared for the first test match as they only play one tour match which was almost washed out. But in the last few tours India played nicely in test matches. A test win in South Africa and then series wins in West Indies and England. But this time against very strong line up, a big challenge. Here is the short history between India and Australia on MCG.

1947 Australia won by 233 runs.
1947 Australia won by an innings and 177 runs.
1967 Australia won by an innings and 4 runs.
1977 India won by 222 runs.
1980 India won by 59 runs.
1985 Drawn.
1991 Australia won by 8 wickets.
1999 Australia won by 180 runs.
2003 Australia won by 9 wickets.

Cricket Tours 2007- Cricket Schedule 2007

2007-09-29T05:51:00.000-07:00

Coming up is the busiest cricket schedule consisting lots of one day cricket matches and Tests. Almost all the cricket playing countries are occupied with their cricket tours. Just one week ago we had entertaining twenty20 world championship tournament and now lots of cricket matches coming up. Australia is on tour of India where they will play 7 one day internationals. This is among the heaviest India cricket schedule because Pakistan coming to tour India just after this ODI series. Pakistan on the other hand now a days playing with guest South Africa. Moreover England currently visiting Sri Lanka.

Twenty20 World Cup

2007-09-11T08:15:00.000-07:00

Its now time for Twenty20 World Cup

Few hours to go and we have an other most entertaining cricketing tournament the Twenty20 world cup. This is the first time ICC hold this super fast cricket tournament hosted by South Africa. It is started from 11th of September 2007, the first match will be played between West Indies and the host South Africa. You can find here the Twenty20 World Cup Schedule and match results.

Sri Lanka beat West Indies by 113 runs

2007-04-02T11:39:00.000-07:00

Sri Lanka beat West Indies by 113 runs
Man of the match Jayasuriya
Sri Lanka -303/5, West Indies 190(44.3)

This was the super eight series match of cricket world cup 2007 played between West Indies and Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka easily win the match by 113 runs. After winning the toss West Indies chose to field first and manage Sri Lanka to restrict initially. At one stage Sri Lanka were 53/2 in 16 overs. But then there was no answer to the Jayasuriya's crackling batting. He started batting in own style from 18th over took 27 of 9 balls and then he continue in style and made 115 in 101 balls. The battle continues after Jayasuriya fall and they end with 303/5. West Indies bowling and fielding was not to the mark and they fails to take an advantage of initial slow batting from SL.

West Indies loose Gayle, Bravo, and Lara in just about 10 overs on the score of 42 when Sangakkara took off the bails with Lara's toe a fraction in the air. Sarwan and Chanderpaul tried to come back in the game as they started building partnership but the required rate was about 10 when there is 20 over left and 200 required. And the hope comes to an end when Sarwan becomes an other victin of Sangakkara. In the end there was nothing could help West Indies and their innings come to end on 190 in 45th over.

Scores

Sri Lanka Innings (303/5): Tharanga 8, Jayasuriya 115, Sangakkara 7, Jayawardene 82, Silva 23, Dilshan 39*, Arnold 4*

West Indies Bowling: Taylor 32/0, Powell 38/2, Bradshaw 67/1, Smith 23/0, Gayle 60/0, Bravo 59/1, Sarwan 17/1

West Indies Innings (190)(44.3): Gayle 10, Bravo 21, Chanderpaul 76, Lara 2, Sarwan 44, Samuels 3, Smith 0, Ramdin 2, Bradshaw 6*, Taylor 13 ,Powell 2

Sri Lanka Bowling: Vaas 19/2, Malinga 34/2, Fernando 19/0, Dilshan 11/0, Arnold 9/0, Muralitharan 59/2, Jayasuriya 38/3

Malinga's magic could not help Sri Lanka

2007-03-29T05:44:00.000-07:00

This was 2nd match of the Cricket World Cup 2007 Super Eight stage played between Sri Lanka and South Africa. Sri Lanka after winning the toss chose to bat first put a target of 210 for South Africa.

From the begaining the match was moving towards South Africa's way. They were at the stage only 4 runs required to win with lots of balls and 5 wickets remaining. Shaun Pollock and Jacques Kallis were on the creaze playing easily. Then there was magic spell from Lasith Malinga of 4 wickets in a row. First Shaun Pollock could not understand the change of speed and the leg stump was down. The swinging one to Andrew Hall just touched the bat and pops up to the cover. Jacques Kallis beat by the speed and the edge easily taken by wicket keeper. And the real beauty yorker went between Makhaya Ntini's legs and bat and to the stumps. This has risen everone heart beating before a thick edge and a four from Peterson bat lead South Africa to the victory.

Before Sri Lanka started their innings with an early wicket of Tharanga in just 3rd over of their innings. Sangakkara and Jayasuriya was looking good but failed to stay on creaze for longer from super bowling and fielding from South Africa. Sri Lanka were in big trouble when they were 98/5 in 24 overs. Then Dilshan and Arnold shown some resistance and jointly added an important 97 before Dilshan fall in 46th over. Then super spell from Langeveldt (39/5) restrict Sri Lanka to 209 when there was 3 balls left. This was the first time in this world cup from Langeveldt a 5 wickets haul.

South Africa also lost de Villiers very early at the score of just 1. Then the super knocks from Smith and the typical Jacques Kallis added 94 on the total and put South Africa on solid position. Then 2 in 2 from Murli created some hope but it was very late looking at the batting depth of South Africa and only 50 more runs needed with lots of overs remaining. Then they loose Kemp on total of 182. With Kallis still on the creaze and Pollock playing quiet sensibly move thier innings to 206/5 before the drama begain.

Scores

Sri Lanka Innings (209/10):Tharanga 12, Jayasuriya 26, Jayawardene 12, Sangakkara 28, Silva 9, Dilshan 58, Arnold 50, Maharoof 5, Vaas 0, Malinga 0*, Muralitharan 1
South Africa Bowling:Pollock 46/0, Ntini 26/2, Langeveldt 39/5, Hall 33/1, Kallis 24/0, Peterson 22/0, Smith 16/0
South Africa Innings (212/9):Smith 59, de Villiers 0, Kallis 86, Gibbs 31, Boucher 0, Kemp 5, Pollock 13, Hall 0, Peterson 4*, Ntini 0, Langeveldt 1*
Sri Lanka Bowling:Vaas 31/1, Malinga 54/4, Maharoof 41/0 , Muralitharan 34/3, Jayasuriya 34/1, Dilshan 9/0

Biggest upset day in cricket world cup history

2007-03-18T06:51:00.000-07:00

17th March 2007 was the day of upsets in cricket world cup history. Bangladesh won over India by 5 wickets and the biggest upset produce by Ireland beating Pakistan by 3 wickets and Pakistan is now out of the tournament. India still have chance to make come back if they win rest of the 2 games by big margins.

India lost to Bangladesh

This was the 8th Match of ICC World Cup 2007 Bangladesh v India played at Port of Spain, Trinidad , on 17 March 2007. An all rounder performance from Bangladesh and very very poor batting by India lead to a comprehensive win to Bangladesh. Rahul Dravid won the toss and elected to bat first. The damage continue from the begaining of an indian innings till Yuvraj Singh and Ganguly rescue the innings. Mashrafe Mortaza produced initial break through and Syed Rasel on the other end was giving superb support. Poor batting preformace from Sehwag continue and he back on just 2 runs and then india lost Uthappa, Tendulkar, Dravid and collapsed to 72/4 in 24 overs. Then slow but solid batting from Ganguly and some handsome knock from Yuvraj Singh added valuable 85. Then there was dramtic collapse, India lost 5 wickets in just 3 runs gap from 157/4 to 159/9. Then the useful inning from Munaf and Zaheer take india to some defendable total of 191. Mashrafe Mortaza played main role by 38/4 and Mohammad Rafique and Abdur Razzak took 3 wickets each.

India Batting: SC Ganguly 66, V Sehwag 2, AR Uthappa 9, SR Tendulkar 7, R Dravid 14, Yuvraj Singh 47, MS Dhoni 0, Harbhajan 0, AB Agarkar 0, Z Khan 15*, MM Patel 15

Bangladesh Bolwing: Mashrafe Mortaza 38/4,Syed Rasel 31/0,Abdur Razzak 38/3,Saqibul Hasan 44/0,Mohammad Rafique 35/3

In reply Bangladesh start was not good when they lose Shahriar Nafees early. But Tamim Iqbal started rocking Indian bowling and was the big pain for India in the start. Then 2 wickets in small interval creates some hope for India when Bangladesh were at 3-79. But Indian are failed to take advantage as they drop some important catches and then cool half centuries from Mushfiqur Rahim and Saqibul Hasan prduce an upset in this tournament. And Bangladesh claim their 2nd win cricket world cup history.

Bangladesh Batting: Tamim Iqbal 51, Shahriar Nafees 2, Mushfiqur Rahim 56*, Aftab Ahmed 8, Saqibul Hasan 53, Habibul Bashar 1, Mohammad Ashraful 8*

India Bowling: Z Khan 41/1,AB Agarkar 41/0,MM Patel 39/2,Harbhajan Singh 30/0,SR Tendulkar 8/0, Yuvraj Singh 15/0,V Sehwag 17/2

Ireland produced the biggest wrold cup upset

9th Match of ICC World Cup 2007 Ireland v Pakistan played at Jamaica , on 17 March. Ireland produced the biggest upset in World Cup cricket history. Ireland won the toss and elected to field first. Pitch was showing some early movemets. Pakistan losses Mohammad Hafeez and Younis Khan's wickets early on just 15 on the borad. Then after Mohammad Yousuf out on total of 56 they never come back in their innings as their wickets falling regulary. Most of the damage done by WB Rankin and AC Botha with wonderful support from all other bowlers and their fielding was remarkably superior as they are playing in the world cup for the first time. In the end Pakistan all out on just 132 runs the worst batting ever for Pakistan. In reply to 132 wonderful one man show form N'iall O'Brien took them to 3 wickets win. Pakistan could not magic when Ireland was 113/7 as KJ O'Brien and DT Johnston took Ireland safely to the 3 wickets win and the biggest wrold cup upset. Pakistan not only loose the match but they are now out of the tournament and this has changed the equations of the rest of the tournament.

England v New Zealand world cup 2007 Group Match

2007-03-17T05:32:00.000-07:00

England v New Zealand 6th Match at St Lucia, on 16 March 2007

New Zealand won by 6 Wickets
Man of the Match: SB Styris, New Zealand

Score summary England innings

England 209/7	Runs	Balls	4s	6s	New Zealand Bowling
MP Vaughan	26	52	3	0	JEC Franklin	9-0-43-2
KP Pietersen	60	92	4	1	SE Bond	10-1-19-2
PD Collingwood	31	54	2	0	JDP Oram	6-0-25-1
PA Nixon	42*	41	5	0	SB Styris	7-0-25-2

Score summary New Zealand innings

New Zealand 210/4 (41 Overs)	Runs	Balls	4s	6s	England Bowling
SP Fleming	7	11	1	0	JM Anderson	8-0-39-2
SB Styris	87*	113	9	0	LE Plunkett	7-0-43-1
CD McMillan	27	34	3	0	A Flintoff	8-1-17-0
JDP Oram	63*	83	4	1	MS Panesar	10-0-47-1

West Indies v Pakistan world cup 2007 Group Match

2007-03-15T10:26:00.000-07:00

West Indies v Pakistan at Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica, on 13 March 2007

West Indies won by 54 runs
Man of the Match: DR Smith,West Indies

With the help of an alrounder performance from DR Smith, 32 in 15 balls and an important 3 wickets, and 63 of MN Samuels, West indies won the first ODI of world cup 2007 tournament by 54 runs. After Pakistan won the toss and chose to field first they failed to take advantage of early wicket of Gayle. Then Sarwan took the charge and played some superb strokes with Chanderpaul seems very quite. Again there was chance for Pakistan to comeback when West indies are 77/3 in 25 overs. But then Lara and Samuels playing quite comfortably keep the score moving. In the end with the help of rocketing batting from tail enders West Indies put target of 242.

Pakistan loose their first 3 wickets just on 39 runs on the board. Imran Nazir back after hitting six on very first ball then Younis Khan and Mohammad Hafeez could not stay longer and Pakistan were 39/3. Though Mohammad Yousuf and Inzamam-ul-Haq playing quite sensibly and added 60 more but they failed to reach to the destination as Mohammad Yousuf, Inzamam-ul-Haq and Kamran Akmal fall in just 17 runs gap at 116/6. Then they never come back in the game as there was no support from other end when Shoaib Malik was playing really superb innings. In the end Pakistan were allout on 187 and lose the match by 54 runs.

Score summary West Indies innings

West Indies 241/9	Runs	Balls	4s	6s	Pakistan
RR Sarwan	49	65	9	0	Umar Gul	9-1-38-2
MN Samuels	63	70	5	3	Iftikhar Anjum	10-3-44-3
BC Lara	37	56	3	1	Danish Kaneria	9-2-45-1
DR Smith	32	15	3	2	Mohammad Hafeez	9-0-39-2

Score summary Pakistan innings

Pakistan 187/10	Runs	Balls	4s	6s	West Indies
Younis Khan	9	13	2	0	DB Powell	10-1-42-2
Mohammad Yousuf	37	72	1	0	CD Collymore	8.2-3-27-1
Inzamam-ul-Haq	36	65	4	0	DR Smith	10-0-36-3
Shoaib Malik	62	54	6	1	DJ Bravo	9-0-42-3

Warm up Matches 06 march 2007

2007-03-08T08:41:00.000-08:00

India v Netherlands India won by 182 runs. With the help of 50s from Dravid and Tendulkar India put hard target of 300 after putting to bat by Netherlands. Netherlands just manage to pass 100 and collapsed at 118. Score: India 300/9(50) (Dravid 74,Tendulkar 61,RN ten Doeschate 57/5) Netherlands 118/10(38) (B Zuiderent 32, RN ten Doeschate 31, Yuvraj Singh 12/4 )

Australia v Zimbabwe Result Australia won by 106 runs. After winning the toss and selecting to bat first Australia put 290 in 50 overs. In reply Zimbabwe made only 184 and lose the game by 106 runs. Score: Australia 290/8(50) (MJ Clarke 82, SR Watson 81, SC Williams 48/2) Zimbabwe 184/7(50) (SC Williams 44, S Matsikenyeri 35,SR Clark 33/2)

Canada v Pakistan Pakistan won by 77 runs. After winning the toss Canada put Pakistan to bat first they restrict Pakistan to 273 in 48 overs. In reply Canada all out on 196 in 47th over. Score: Pakistan 273/8(48) (Inzamam-ul-Haq 59, Mohammad Hafeez 61,S Dhaniram 26/2) Canada 196/10(47) (Qaiser Ali 37,AA Mulla 31,Mohammad Hafeez 10/3)

Bangladesh v New Zealand Bangladesh won by 2 wickets. World cup 2007 Warm up upset here. New Zealand won the toss and chose to bat first. But today was day for Bangladesh, New Zealand started their innings and they loose both the opening batsman on just 13 on the board. Then the damage continue further with Mortaza leading the role and they collapsed to 75/6. Then the drama turn bit towards New Zealand way when injured Oram 88 and McCullum 46 rescue their innings with comprehensive stand of 105. In the end New Zealand all out on 226 in 48th over. Bangladesh started their innings quite sensibly with openers gave them solid start. Wickets are falling on the way to get the target of 227. But Mohammad Ashraful playing nicely before was out lbw by Franklin and the game turns to an exited stage. But Mortaza now with the bat having something different in mind hit consecutive sixes to Franklin. World cup 2007 first upset end with Bangladesh winning the game by 2 wickets with 6 balls left. Score: New Zealand 226/10(48) (Oram 88, McCullum 46, Razzak 26/4, Mortaza 44/4) Bangladesh 230/8(49) (Tamim Iqbal 46, Javed Omar 45, DL Vettori 38/3)

Warm up Matches 05 march 2007

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ICC cricket world cup 2007 Warm up Matches 05 march 2007. These are not counted as an official icc ODI but are held prior to forthcoming world cup 2007. Rules are also slightly changed in this series of Warm up Matches. 13 players can play in a match but only 11 can bat and 11 field at any time and any of 13 playes can bowl. Following are the statistics of Warm up Matches played on 05 march 2007.

Sri Lanka v Scotland Sri Lanka won the match by 159 runs. After winning the toss and electing to bat first Sri Lanka put total of 294/7. As usual Sanath Jayasuriya started his own style batting and put them on commanding position from the start. Later Sangakkara took on the charge and in the end they put 294 on the board. No one from Scotland can manage to stay on the crease. And they all out for 135 In 42 overs.
Score:
Sri Lanka 294/7(50) ( Jayasuriya 77/62, Sangakkara 81/87, JAR Blain 51/2)
Scotland 135/10(42) (GM Hamilton 25/51, Dilshan 8/2)

West Indies v Kenya, Jamaica West Indies won by 21 runs. West Indies win the toss and batting first put 268/6 with the help of Samuels 100 and Gayle 75. Kenya replied well but no one can put some extra efforts to take them to the West Indies total. In the end they fall short of 21 runs.
Score:
West Indies 268/6(50) (Samuels 100, Gayle 75, TM Odoyo 26/2)
Kenya 247/7(50) (CO Obuya 54*, RD Shah 41,DB Powell 23/2)

South Africa v Ireland South Africa won by 35 runs. It was drama here, after selecting to bat first top ODI rankers were struggling at 91/8 when Boucher departs at 14. Wonderful effort from AJ Hall and superb support from RJ Peterson put them on 192. Ireland loose their last 6 wickets in just 18 runs when CK Langeveldt crush their innings with 31/4. In the end South Africa mange to win the match by 35 runs.
Score:
South Africa 192/10(50) (AJ Hall 67*, RJ Peterson 29,DT Johnston 40/4)
Ireland 247/7(50) (AC Botha 40, WTS Porterfield 37, CK Langeveldt 31/4)

England v Bermuda England won by 241 runs.
Score:
England 286/8(50) (Dalrymple 76, Bell 46,DC Borden 71/3)
Bermuda 45/10(23) (J Lewis 7/3, A Flintoff 0 3/2,JM Anderson 8/2)

Cricket World Cup 2007 Teams

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Forthcoming Cricket World Cup will start from March 2007. West Indies is hosting this world cup championship tournament. World Cup is the biggest tournament consisting of ODI cricket. The other form of cricket are five day test match and limited 20 overs match Twenty20 cricket. Following are the teams and the players taking part in this world cup 2007.

Australia World Cup Team

RT Ponting (captain)
NW Bracken
MJ Clarke
AC Gilchrist (wicketkeeper)
BJ Haddin (wicketkeeper)
ML Hayden
BJ Hodge
GB Hogg
MEK Hussey
MG Johnson
B Lee
GD McGrath
A Symonds
SW Tait
SR Watson

Bangladesh World Cup Team

Habibul Bashar (captain)
Shahriar Nafees (vice-captain)
Abdur Razzak
Aftab Ahmed
Javed Omar
Mashrafe Mortaza
Mohammad Ashraful
Mohammad Rafique
Mushfiqur Rahim (wicketkeeper)
Rajin Saleh
Saqibul Hasan
Shahadat Hossain
Syed Rasel
Tamim Iqbal
Tapash Baisya

Bermuda World Cup Team

IH Romaine (captain)
DA Minors (vice-captain)
DC Borden
LO Cann
DL Hemp
K Hurdle
M Jones
S Kelly
DM Leverock
S Mukuddem
SD Outerbridge
OL Pitcher
CJ Smith
JJ Tucker
Kwame Tucker (wicketkeeper)

Canada World Cup Team

JM Davison (captain)
KT Sandher
A Bagai (wicketkeeper) - vice-captain
GEF Barnett
U Bhatti
IS Billcliff
DR Chumney
A Codrington
GR Codrington
AC Cummins
S Dhaniram
AA Mulla (wicketkeeper)
H Osinde
Qaiser Ali
AM Samad

England World Cup Team

MP Vaughan (captain)
JM Anderson
IR Bell
RS Bopara
PD Collingwood
JWM Dalrymple
A Flintoff
EC Joyce
J Lewis
SI Mahmood
PA Nixon (wicketkeeper)
MS Panesar
KP Pietersen
LE Plunkett
AJ Strauss

India World Cup Team

R Dravid (captain)
SR Tendulkar (vice-captain)
AB Agarkar
MS Dhoni (wicketkeeper)
SC Ganguly
Harbhajan Singh
KD Karthik (wicketkeeper)
Z Khan
A Kumble
MM Patel
IK Pathan
V Sehwag
S Sreesanth
AR Uthappa
Yuvraj Singh

Ireland World Cup Team

DT Johnston (captain)
WK McCallan (vice-captain)
AC Botha
JP Bray
KED Carroll
PG Gillespie
D Langford-Smith
JF Mooney
PJK Mooney
EJG Morgan
KJ O'Brien
NJ O'Brien (wicketkeeper)
WTS Porterfield
WB Rankin
AR White

Kenya World Cup Team

SO Tikolo (captain)
TM Odoyo (vice-captain)
R Bhudia
JK Kamande
T Mishra
CO Obuya
DO Obuya
N Odhiambo
PJ Ongondo
LN Onyango
MA Ouma (wicketkeeper)
ML Patel
RD Shah
AO Suji
HA Varaiya

Netherlands World Cup Team

LP van Troost (captain)
B Zuiderent
Adeel Raja
PW Borren
TBM de Leede
MBS Jonkman
AN Kervezee
Mohammad Kashif
DJ Reekers
E Schiferli
J Smits (wicketkeeper)
WF Stelling
ES Szwarczynski
RN ten Doeschate
DLS van Bunge

New Zealand World Cup Team

SP Fleming (captain)
SE Bond
JEC Franklin
PG Fulton
MR Gillespie
BB McCullum (wicketkeeper)
CD McMillan
MJ Mason
JDP Oram
JS Patel
SB Styris
RL Taylor
DR Tuffey
DL Vettori
L Vincent

Pakistan World Cup Team

Inzamam-ul-Haq (captain)
Younis Khan (vice-captain)
Abdul Razzaq
Danish Kaneria
Iftikhar Anjum
Imran Nazir
Kamran Akmal (wicketkeeper)
Mohammad Asif
Mohammad Hafeez
Mohammad Yousuf
Naved-ul-Hasan
Shahid Afridi
Shoaib Akhtar
Shoaib Malik
Umar Gul

Scotland World Cup Team

CM Wright (captain)
RR Watson (vice-captain)
JAR Blain
DR Brown
GM Hamilton
RM Haq
PJC Hoffmann
DR Lockhart
RT Lyons
NFI McCallum
JD Nel
NS Poonia
GA Rogers
CJO Smith (wicketkeeper)
DF Watts

South Africa World Cup Squad

Sri Lanka World Cup Team

DPMD Jayawardene (captain)
RP Arnold
MS Atapattu
CM Bandara
TM Dilshan
CRD Fernando
ST Jayasuriya
KMDN Kulasekara
MF Maharoof
SL Malinga
M Muralitharan
KC Sangakkara (wicketkeeper)
LPC Silva
WU Tharanga
WPUJC Vaas

West Indies World Cup Team

Zimbabwe World Cup Team

P Utseya (captain)
GB Brent
CJ Chibhabha
E Chigumbura
KM Dabengwa
T Duffin
AJ Ireland
F Kasteni
S Matsikenyeri
CB Mpofu
T Mupariwa
EC Rainsford
V Sibanda
BRM Taylor (wicketkeeper)
SC Williams

Cricket World Cup Bowling Records

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One day internationals(OID) are the most exciting contests since its begaining in the Cricket history. Cricket World Cup is the biggest tournament of one day cricket. It is contensted between all test cricket playing nations and qualifiers. Since its begaining in 1975, 8 such tournaments are organised. Following summarizes the Bolwing world records in Cricket World Cup tournaments.

World Cup Bowling Records

Top 5 Best Bowling in an Innings

7/15 GD McGrath Australia v Namibia , 2003
7/20 AJ Bichel Australia v England , 2003
7/51 WW Davis West Indies v Australia , 1983
6/14 GJ Gilmour Australia v England , 1975
6/23 SE Bond New Zealand v Australia, 2003
6/23 A Nehra India v England , 2003

Top 5 Most Wickets takers in a Tournament

23/331 C. Vaas(Sri Lanka), 2003
22/394 B. Lee(Australia), 2003
21/310 G. McGrath(Australia), 2003
20/325 G. Allott(New Zealand), 1999
20/361 S. Warne(Australia), 1999

Top 5 Most Wicket takers in all Tournaments

55/1311 Wasim Akram(Pakistan) Average 23.83
45/935 Glen McGrath(Australia) Average 20.77
44/1224 Javagal Srinath(India) Average 27.81
38/913 Alen Donald(South Africa) Average 24.02
36/754 Chaminda Vaas(Sri Lanka) Average 20.94

Hat Tricks in World Cups

By C. Sharma For India Against New Zealand, 1987
By S. Mushtaq For Pakistan Against Zimbabwe, 1999
By C. Vaas For Sri Lanka Against Bangladesh, 2003
By B. Lee For Australia Against Kenya, 2003

Cricket World Cup Batting Records

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One day internationals(OID) are the most entertaining matches since its begaining in the Cricket history. Cricket World Cup is the biggest championship tournament of one day cricket. It is contensted between all test cricket playing nations and qualifiers. Since its begaining in 1975, 8 such tournaments are organised. Following summarizes the Batting world records in Cricket World Cup tournaments.

World Cup Batting Records

Highest Top 5 Team Scores

398-5 By Sri Lanka against Kenya, Kandy, 1996
373-6 By India against Sri Lanka, Taunton 1999
360-4 By West Indies against Sri Lanka, Karachi 1987
359-2 By Australia against India, Johannesburg 2003
340-2 By Zimbabwe against Namibia, Harare 2003

Lowest Top 5 Team Scores

36 By Canada against Sri Lanka, Paarl 2003
45 By Canada against England, Manchester 1979
45 By Namibia against Australia, Potchefstroom 2003
68 By Scotland against West Indies, Leicester 1999
74 By Pakistan against England, Adelaide 1992

Highest Top 5 Individual Scores

188* Gary Kirsten against United Arab Emirates, Rawalpindi 1996
183 Saurav Ganguly against Sri Lanka, Taunton 1999
181 Viv. Richards against Sri Lanka, Karachi 1987
175* Kapil Dev against Zimbabwe, Tunbridge Wells 1983
172* Wishart against Namibia, Harare 2003

Highest Top 5 Individual Total Runs in a Tournament

673 Sachin Tendulkar(India) in 2003 Average 61.18
523 Sachin Tendulkar(India) in 1996 Average 87.16
484 Mark Waugh(Australia) in 1996 Average 80.66
471 Greham Gooch(Englang) in 1987 Average 58.87
465 Saurav Ganguly(India) in 2003 Average 58.12

Highest Top 5 Individual Total Scores in All Tournaments

1732 Sachin Tendulkar(India) Average 59.72
1083 Javed Miandad(Pakistan) Average 43.32
1064 Arvinda de Silva(Sri Lanka) Average 36.68
1013 Viv. Richards(West Indies) Average 63.31
1004 Mark Waugh(Australia) Average 52.84

Highest Top 5 Partnerships

318 R Dravid & SC Ganguly, 2nd wicket, India v Sri Lanka - 1999
244 SR Tendulkar & SC Ganguly, 2nd wicket, India v Namibia - 2003
237* R Dravid & SR Tendulkar, 2nd wicket, India v Kenya - 1999
234* RT Ponting & DR Martyn, 2nd wicket, Australia v India - 2003
228 JF Kloppenburg & KJJ van Noortwijk, 2nd wicket, Netherlands v Namibia - 2003

ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 West Indies

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ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 West Indies

The next ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 West Indies will start from 11/03/2007. Jamaica will host the Opening Ceremony. The ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 will be played between 16 teams divided into 4 groups. Top two teams from each group will then be taken to Super 8 formate group. From these top 8 teams semi-finalists will be decided.

Cricket World Cup tournaments started in 1975. Cricket was not much popular those days as it is popular now a days. In the first world cup hosted by England, the origin of cricket game, there was only 6 Test Cricket playing nations viz. India, West Indies, England, Australia, Pakistan and New Zealand. Even Srilanka was not in the group of Test playing nations. The fist Cricket Wrold cup was played between 8 nations, the 6 Test playing nations along with Srilanka and East Africa.

First Cricket World Cup 1975 The first ever cricket world cup hosted by England was played between England, Australia, New Zealand, West Indies, India, Pakistan, Srilanka and East Africa. This was sponsered by Prudential Insurance Company and hence named Prudential World Cup. West Indies won this first ever held Cricket World Cup beating Australia by 17 runs. West Indies made 291/8 in 60 overs with Clive Lloyd 102 runs off just 85 balls but Australia fall short by 17 runs.

Second Cricket World Cup 1979 This was the second Cricket World Cup played in 1979, once again hosted by England. And once again was sponsered by Prudential Insurance Company and hence named Prudential World Cup. This was played between Australia, Canada, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Srilanka and West Indies. By first batting in the final West Indies made 286/9 with the help of superb batting from Sir Vivian Richards 138*. England could not acheieve this score and lost the game by 92 runs.

Third Cricket World Cup 1983 The third Cricket World Cup played in 1983, once again hosted by England and was sponsered by Prudential Insurance Company. This was played between Australia, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Srilanka, West Indies and Zimbabwe. This world cup is rememberd in the histroy of indian cricket and in the history of world cricket too. The final was played between India and West Indies. In the first innings India made only 183 in 54.4 overs. No one hope that the India could win this game with such low score of 183. But it was surprize for all the cricket fans and India restrict West Indies to only 140 and won the world cup by 43 runs. Mohinder Amarnath named man of the match for his allrounder performance.

Fourth Cricket World Cup 1987 This is the first time the Cricket World Cup hosted out side England since the begaining of cricket world cup. This was jointly hosted by India and Pakistan and sponserd by Reliance company and so named Reliance World Cup. It was played between Australia, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Srilanka, West Indies and Zimbabwe. The final was played at Eden Gardens, Kolkata, India between Australia and England. Playing first Australia made 253/7 in 50 overs and win the world cup by 7 runs to England. David Boon was named man of the match for his 75 runs.

Fifth Cricket World Cup 1992 The Fifth Cricket World Cup was played between Australia, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Srilanka, West Indies, Zimbabwe and South Africa. It was Jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand called the Benson and Hedges World Cup. Final was played between Pakistan and England and Pakistan win the game by 22 runs, Wasim Akram named man of the match.

Sixth Cricket World Cup 1996 The Sixth Cricket World Cup was jointly hosted by three countries India, Pakistan and Srilanka. It was called Wills World Cup. It was played between Australia, England, India, Kenya, New Zealand, Netherlands, Pakistan, South Africa, Srilanka, United Arab Emirates, West Indies and Zimbabwe. This world cup was rememberd for three things, first the winner is one of the hosting nations, second first time win by the team batting second in world cup final and the third they are the winner througout without loosing single match. Srin Lanka won the world cup beating Australia by 7 wickets. Aravinda da Silva named man of the match for his 107*.

Seventh Cricket World Cup 1999 Seventh Cricket World Cup was called ICC World Cup and hosted by England again. It was played between Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, Kenya, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Scotland, Srilanka, West Indies and Zimbabwe. The final was played at Lords between Australia and Pakistan. Australia easily beat Pakistan by 8 wickets in the low scoring game. Batting first Pakistan made only 132, the lowest total ever recorded in a World Cup final. Shane Warne named man of the match for his superb bowling performance.

Eighth Cricket World Cup 2003 The Eighth Cricket World Cup was played between Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, England, India, Kenya, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Scotland, Srilanka, West Indies and Zimbabwe. It was jointly hosted by South Africa, Zimambwe and Kenya. It was also called ICC Cricket World Cup. The final was played between Australia and India, with Australia win the match by 125 runs. This is the third time Australia win the world cup, the highest number of time any nation who won the world cup.

ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 Schedule

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Following is the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 Schedule.

cricket world cup 2007: Groups

	Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
1	Australia	Sri Lanka	New Zealand	Pakistan
2	South Africa	India	England	West Indies
3	Scotland	Bangladesh	Kenya	Zimbabwe
4	Holland	Bermuda	Canada	Ireland

Warm-up matches schedule

	Group WA	Group WB	Group WC	Group WD
05 Mar	WI v KEN	ENG v BER	SA v CAN	SL v SCO
06 Mar	IND v HOL	AUS v ZIM	PAK v IRE	NZ v BAN
08 Mar	KEN v HOL	ZIM v BER	IRE v CAN	SCO v BAN
09 Mar	IND v WI	AUS v ENG	PAK v SA	NZ v SL

Group matches schedule

Date	Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
13 Mar				WI v PAK
14 Mar	AUS v SCO		KEN v CAN	reserve day
15 Mar	reserve day	SL v BER	reserve day	ZIM v IRE
16 Mar	SA v HOL	reserve day	ENG v NZ	reserve day
17 Mar	reserve day	IND v BAN	reserve day	PAK v IRE
18 Mar	AUS v HOL	reserve day	ENG v CAN	reserve day
19 Mar	reserve day	IND v BER	reserve day	WI v ZIM
20 Mar	SA v SCO	reserve day	NZ v KEN	reserve day
21 Mar	reserve day	SL v BAN	reserve day	ZIM v PAK
22 Mar	SCO v HOL	reserve day	NZ v CAN	reserve day
23 Mar	reserve day	IND v SL	reserve day	WI v IRE
24 Mar	AUS v SA	reserve day	ENG v KEN	reserve day
25 Mar	reserve day	BER v BAN	reserve day
26 Mar		reserve day

Super Eight matches schedule

Date	Antigua & Barbuda	Grenada	Guyana	Barbados
27 Mar	D2 v A1 (WI v Aus)
28 Mar	reserve day		A2 v B1 (SA v SL)
29 Mar	D2 v C1 (WI v NZ)		reserve day
30 Mar	reserve day		D1 v C2 (Pak v Eng)
31 Mar	A1 v B2 (Aus v Ind)		reserve day
01 Apr	reserve day		D2 v B1 (WI v SL)
02 Apr	B2 v C1 (Ind v NZ)		reserve day
03 Apr	reserve day		D1 v A2 (PAK v SA)
04 Apr	C2 v B1 (Eng v SL)		reserve day
05 Apr	reserve day
07 Apr			B2 v A2 (Ind v SA)
08 Apr	A1 v C2 (Aus v Eng)		reserve day
09 Apr	reserve day		D1 v C1 (Pak v NZ)
10 Apr		D2 v A2 (WI v SA)	reserve day
11 Apr		reserve day		C2 v B2 (Eng v Ind)
12 Apr		B1 v C1 (SL v NZ)		reserve day
13 Apr		reserve day		A1 v D1 (Aus v Pak)
14 Apr		A2 v C1 (SA v NZ)		reserve day
15 Apr		reserve day		B2 v D1 (Ind v Pak)
16 Apr		A1 v B1 (Aus v SL)		reserve day
17 Apr		reserve day		A2 v C2 (SA v Eng)
18 Apr		D1 v B1 (Pak v SL)		reserve day
19 Apr		reserve day		D2 v B2 (WI v Ind)
20 Apr		A1 v C1 (Aus v NZ)		reserve day
21 Apr		reserve day		D2 v C2 (WI v Eng)
22 Apr				reserve day

Semi Finals matches schedule

Date	Semi Final 1	Semi Final 2
24 Apr	Semi Final 1: 2 v 3
25 Apr	reserve day	Semi Final 2: 1 v 4
26 Apr		reserve day

And the Big One Final match schedule

Date
27 Apr
28 Apr	FINAL (Barbados)
29 Apr	reserve day