Sri Lanka thrashed Bangladesh yesterday, and safely made it to the top eight teams that play in the quarter finals. The two teams that now stand a chance of getting into the top eight from this group are Bangladesh and India.
India can make it, if and only if they beat Sri Lanka in the match […]
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Sri Lanka thrashed Bangladesh yesterday, and safely made it to the top eight teams that play in the quarter finals. The two teams that now stand a chance of getting into the top eight from this group are Bangladesh and India.
India can make it, if and only if they beat Sri Lanka in the match coming up on Friday, 23rd March 2007. And, as we wait to watch this match coming up tomorrow, lets lighten up some tension by checking out some extremely interesting resources on History of the World Cup.
The First Cricket World Cup Ever …
…was hosted in 1975 by England. Named after the sponsors, Prudential plc, the matches in this cup consisted of 60 six-ball overs per team.
Eight teams participated in the first tournament: Australia, England, the West Indies, New Zealand, India, and Pakistan, together with Sri Lanka and a composite team from East Africa This tournament was won by the West Indies, who defeated Australia by 17 runs in the final at Lords.
In 1979, the ICC Trophy competition was introduced, to select non-Test playing teams for the World Cup. Two teams that qualified in this year for participating in the World Cup were Sri Lanka and Canada. Here again, the West Indies won, defeating hosts, England, by 92 runs in the final.
At a meeting following this World Cup, the International Cricket Conference agreed to make the competition a quadrennial (once in four years) event.
Hosted by England for a third consecutive time, the Cup in 1983 saw Zimbabwe also qualify to participate. This was the year in which India, led by Kapils Devils brought home the World Cup.
Lets now take a look at the winners and the runner-ups of all the World Cups that have happened to date.
Year 1975 : At Lords, London, Windies vs Australia. Windies won by 17 runs.
Year 1979 : At Lords, London, Windies vs England. Windies won by 92 runs.
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Year 1983 : At Lords, London, Windies vs India. India won by 43 runs.
Year 1987 : At Eden Gardens, Kolkata, (India). England vs Australia. Australia won by 7 runs.
Year 1992 : At MCG, Melbourne (Australia). Pakistan vs England. Pakistan won by 22 runs.
Year 1996 : At Gaddaffi Stadium, Lahore (Pakistan). Sri Lanka vs Australia. Sri Lanka won by 7 wickets.
Year 1999 : At Lords, London. Pakistan vs Australia. Australia won by 8 wickets.
Year 2003 : At Wanderers, Johannesburg (SA). Australia vs India. Australia won by 125 runs.
See these sites to stay in touch with the ICC World Cup 2007
1) Official website of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007
2) My personal favorite site for following cricket online.
What is your favorite team? And why? Mine of course, is India.
Viva la India. Viva Sachin Tendular, Rahul Dravid, Dhoni, Yuvraj, Sehwag, Pathan and all others in the bestest team ever.
Sanjeev Sarma
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