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India won the tournament, defeating Sri Lanka by six wickets in the final at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, thus becoming the first country to win the Cricket World Cup final on home soil. [1] [2] India's Yuvraj Singh was declared as the player of the tournament. [3] This was the first time in World Cup history that two Asian teams had appeared in ...
20 February 2011 Pakistan: 10 wickets 29.1 overs West Indies: Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Dhaka: 23 March 2011 New Zealand: 10 wickets 16.3 overs Zimbabwe: Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad: 4 March 2011 Sri Lanka: 10 wickets 10.3 overs England: R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo: 26 March 2011 West Indies: 9 wickets 37.4 overs Bangladesh
The 2011 Cricket World Cup was the tenth World Cup, organized by the International Cricket Council (ICC). The competition took place between 19 February and 2 April 2011. Co-hosted by India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh, the tournament was the third World Cup to be played in the Indian subcontinent. The ICC ruled out Pakistan citing security reasons.
During the match, Sachin Tendulkar became the first player to score more than 2,000 runs in World Cup cricket. [18] Yuvraj Singh took his 100th ODI wicket, with the dismissal of Wesley Barresi . [ 19 ]
India batsman Sachin Tendulkar has scored 2,278 runs making him the only player to score more than 2,000 runs at the World Cup. [11] He has also scored the most World Cup half-centuries with 15 [12] and shares the record with Pakistan's Javed Miandad for the most number of World Cup tournaments played with 6. [13]
The knockout stage was the second and final stage of the 2011 Cricket World Cup. It featured the top four teams from each group (8 total) and contested as a single-elimination tournament. [1] This was the first tournament in which a one-over eliminator would be used to decide matches that finished as ties; however, this decider was not required ...
[dubious – discuss] The 2011 Cricket World Cup was televised in over 200 countries to over 2.2 billion viewers. [74] [81] [better source needed] [dubious – discuss] Television rights, mainly for the 2011 and 2015 World Cup, were sold for over US$1.1 billion, [82] and sponsorship rights were sold for a further US$500 million. [83]
Virender Sehwag's score of 219 broke the previous record for the highest individual ODI score by Sachin Tendulkar. It was the second double-century by a batsman in ODI cricket. The innings consisted of 25 fours and 7 sixes, hitting 65% of his runs with boundaries. [5] India registered their highest ever total in ODIs.