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India secured their second World Cup and the first since 1983. [93] This was also the first instance of any host nation winning the World Cup. [107] Tendulkar scored 482 runs and was the second-highest run scorer in the tournament. [108] Khan was the leading wicket-taker in the tournament with 21 wickets. [108]
Lord's has hosted the final five times. The inaugural ICC Cricket World Cup final was held on 21 June 1975 at Lord's, contested by Australia and the West Indies.A man of the match performance, [11] including a century, from West Indian captain Clive Lloyd, coming in to bat at number five with his team at 50/3, [12] formed the basis of a 149-run fourth-wicket partnership with Rohan Kanhai. [13]
Autographed bat of the World Cup winning captains till 2015 at the Blades of Glory Museum, Pune, India India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh together hosted the 2011 World Cup . Pakistan was stripped of its hosting rights following the terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in 2009 , with the games originally scheduled for Pakistan ...
The 2011 ICC Men's Cricket World Cup was the tenth Cricket World Cup. It was played in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, while the latter hosted World Cup matches for the first time. 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 ...
Color and noise filled India’s streets on Saturday night as the country celebrated its cricket team’s dramatic triumph at the men’s T20 World Cup, defeating South Africa by just seven runs ...
It was the first time that two Asian teams had faced each other in an ODI World Cup final. India won the match by six wickets—its second World Cup win after the 1983 tournament—and became the third team to have won the title more than once, after Australia (1987, 1999, 2003, 2007) and the West Indies (1975 and 1979). [3]
India is one of the full members of the International Cricket Council (ICC), the governing body of cricket. The ICC Men's T20 World Cup has been hosted by the ICC in the T20I format since 2007. There have been nine editions of the tournament and India has participated in every edition.
India won their second T20 World Cup title, equalling the West Indies and England in most tournaments won. [38] India also broke the record of the longest time between successive tournament wins (17 years), breaking the record of 12 years set by England. [39] India also became the first team to win the T20 World Cup by winning 8 matches without ...