The Great Debate (India)
Congratulate Team India
Mahendra Singh Dhoni struck a dramatic six to bring the World Cup to India on Saturday after Sri Lanka had threatened to ruin their party.
India is only the third side to win batting second, a feat that seemed beyond them when Lasith Malinga dismissed both openers in his first four overs. India also became the first country to win the World Cup as host.
Join us in congratulating Team India on their win.
What can ICC do to avoid rush for World Cup tickets?
The website selling just 1000 tickets for the cricket World Cup final in Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium on April 2 crashed seconds after they went on sale on Monday sparking furious complaints from fans.
ICC official ticketing partner KyaZoonga.com buckled under the pressure of huge traffic.
Of the 31,000 seats at the Wankhede stadium, only 4000 are available to the public — 1000 online while another 3000 will be sold later for those who queue up at stadium box offices.
The rest are distributed among the ICC and clubs affiliated to the Mumbai Cricket Association.
With such a small proportion available to the general public in a cricket-crazy country, it is little wonder that there has been a mad scramble for tickets.
What can the ICC do to avoid this? Share your views.
As long as there are so few tickets on offer, this situation will continue. 1,000 out of 31,000 tickets on sale online — this is a joke. At least 10,000 should be sold online, 15,000 at the venue and only about 6,000 reserved for VIPs or sold at concessional rates to cricket clubs.
Who will win the 2011 cricket World Cup?
Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his men will have to work hard to justify their favourites’ tag as India begins its quest for World Cup glory in the Feb. 19 – April 2 cricket tournament.
Fourteen teams have been divided into two groups for the tournament, co-hosted by India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, with the top four from each division advancing to the quarter-finals.
In Group A, defending champions Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan and Sri Lanka would have to seriously under-perform to miss qualifying ahead of Zimbabwe, Canada and Kenya.
Group B holds marginally more interest. Bangladesh barely hold their own in test cricket but they can be a force in the one-day game, especially on their own pitches as a 4-0 drubbing of New Zealand late last year testified.
With a host of slow, naggingly accurate bowlers on sluggish pitches, Bangladesh could well qualify at the expense of West Indies in a group including India, England, South Africa, Ireland and the Netherlands.
Which is your favourite team in the tournament? Who do you think will win and why? Share your views.
we indian always thing only one way we will world cup
// friend think once….we have four good boullers…
in this world cup…our bowlers not be at first place in down the wickets,, but one man he is not a bowller but he
get highest wc.. shaid afridi…ireland bowlers ,,,we get thier stuff in bowling,,,,,.yuavaraj is bowller??????
he is not ooja is good spinner ,dhoni not get him ,he selected that chawala .somebody and another thing ,yuraj got five wickets means he not get five wc on sa or eng or westindis he got 5 wc on ireland ,he scored 50 from 72 balls, yusuf patan scored 22 for 35 if patan is not there means that match diffcult to win(irelanng to is goid).dhoni scored 23,30,20,14 what is this? dhoni have to out from match, now going to eliminate yusuf patan
as striker they miss patan ,and batmans we have sachin and shewag apart them no body is there ………….
sachin doing good and shewag also both guys facing stuff
if they fails means india not going to win….bowllers are not good they are not giving stuff…..chances we have to win,if sachin and shewag ,yusuf patan fails means
we are not going to win world cup…….///i also so said we will world cup but i dint want to show over confidence
y because we are giving (india)great scores ,dut opp teams ,did the score. other teams also giving same scores
ohter teams also having point newzland did 107 run in last five overs… ..if we play with same standards
we wont win world cup…………….
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The Wall
A home team winning THE World Cup on IT’s most hallowed cricket stadium.
Beating EVERY past World Cup winner on it’s way.
Highest run chase EVER in a World Cup final.
A century in a World Cup final and STILL ending up on the losing side.
Having TWO legends of the game in each team.
Both the World Cup final innings ending in a SIX.
What a WIN to be remembered for generations to come.
CHEERS INDIA!