World Cup (cricket): 2011

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2011

Venue: The Indian sub-continent (India; Sri Lanka; Bangladesh). The International Cricket Council (ICC) removed Pakistan from the list of co-hosts after the 2009 attack on the Sri Lankan national cricket team in Lahore.

Participating teams: fourteen (as below):

Full Members: Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, the West Indies, Zimbabwe

Associate Members: Canada, Ireland, Kenya, Netherlands

Winners: India, who defeated Sri Lanka in the final.

India vs Pakistan

IANS | Feb 12, 2015 India vs Pakistan: World Cup history

2011 - India won by 29 runs

Tendulkar (85) again rose to the occasion in a crunch semifinal and helped India to a fighting total of 260 for nine. The home team was well placed to post a superior total but was restricted by left-arm pacer Wahab Riaz (5/46).

Pakistan's response was typical, a strong start followed by a middle-order failure. The onus fell on the reliable Misbah-ul-Haq (56) to pull Pakistan through but he ran out of partners and ultimately was the last person to be dismissed. Indian bowlers collectively put up a superb performance with all five frontliners picking up two wickets each on their way to title glory.

Sachin’s memories of 2011

(For further details, see Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar 1: A timeline

Winning 2011 World Cup was priceless moment: Sachin Tendulkar

PTI | Feb 11, 2015

Sachin Tendulkar felt the team peaked at the right time to win the World Cup.

Narrating the final moments when India defeated Sri Lanka, Sachin Tendulkar said he thanked the Gods, screamed and ran out of the dressing room to the middle.

"I did cry when I went out in the middle... I did cry. This was the only time I had happy tears... because that moment was just a priceless moment. That moment was something that you can only dream off," remembered Tendulkar.

"Playing in India, on the home ground...The Indian team celebrated with lots of champagne as their families, friends and fans also joined in the dressing room that night."

"We didn't start off as well. We were either not bowling well or battling well. Put together as a package we were not clicking. If we batted well, we did not bowl well and if we bowled well, batting was not up to the mark. We started peaking at the right time and both started becoming a formidable package. Obviously we fielded well also," he said.

"Ashish Nehra, Munaf (Patel), Zaheer (Khan), Harbhajan (Singh)...they were all aggressive and you got to hold these guys back. It matters how you show your aggression," Tendulkar, the most successful batsman in ICC's pinnacle event with 2,278 runs in 45 matches, including 482 in nine games in India's successful campaign in the 2011 World Cup, said.

"Viru is a very unpredictable batsman. The opposition would not know what he was going to do. Standing at the non-strikers end, I had started to figure out what he was going to do. For Yuvraj, something happened right from the first game and that continued till the last game."

Fascinating facts about World Cups

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2011: The coin goes up twice in a World Cup final The coin had to be tossed twice at the 2011 World Cup final. When the coin went up for the first time, match referee Jeff Crowe could not hear the call from Kumar Sangakkara. The coin came down as heads and Sangakkara reckoned he called the right side of the coin and was about to say that his side would bat first. However, MS Dhoni said that he heard a call of 'tails' from Sangakkara. Crowe then said that the coin would go up once more.

2011: A review that changed the DRS rule India's review against Ian Bell in the 2011 World Cup forced the International Cricket Council (ICC) to change the DRS rule. Although Hawk-Eye showed the ball hitting a good part of the stumps, Bell was not given out as he was struck outside 2.5 metres from the stumps. The ICC then changed the rule by saying a batsman can be ruled out, if the Hawk-Eye shows the ball hitting the stumps, by a considerable margin, irrespective of the distance between the point of impact and the stumps

2011: Boundary beginning Virender Sehwag got off the mark with a first-ball-four in each of India's first four matches of the group stages in the 2011 World Cup.

2011: Fans mistakenly stone West Indies team bus Unable to digest their team's dismal show in a 2011 World Cup Group match against West Indies, angry Bangladeshi fans stoned the West Indies team bus, which was making its way back to the hotel from the ground. It was later said that the fans mistook the West Indies bus to the Bangladesh bus. Bangladesh were bowled out for 58, their lowest total in ODIs.

2011: Pakistan end Australia's rampaging streak Australia's 34-match unbeaten streak in World Cups was ended by Pakistan in 2011. During that sequence, Australia won three titles, beat 15 different opponents and used 34 players.

2011: Superstitious Sachin forces Sehwag to be glued to his seat After his dismissal in the quarter-final of the 2011 World Cup against Australia, Sachin Tendulkar was getting a massage done in the dressing room. Virender Sehwag was alongside him. The duo never moved from where they were. Tendulkar prayed non-stop and India went on to win the game. In the final too, a superstitious Tendulkar decided to do the same. He made sure Sehwag was right next to him and also stopped him from going to the gallery to watch the winning moment live, suggesting that he can watch the replay a number of times later. It was only after MS Dhoni hit the winning six that Tendulkar and Sehwag moved from their positions and they were the last to run onto the field to join the celebrations.

2011: The first Mahela ODI ton in vain Mahela Jayawardene essayed a terrific century in the 2011 World Cup final, lifting Sri Lanka to a challenging 274. However, Mahela was topped by MS Dhoni as it became the first World Cup ton to end in vain. It also turned out to be the first Mahela ODI ton in vain.

See also

World Cup (cricket): history <>World Cup (cricket): 1975 <>World Cup (cricket): 1979 <>World Cup (cricket): 1983 <>World Cup (cricket): 1987 <>World Cup (cricket): 1992 <>World Cup (cricket): 1996 <>World Cup (cricket): 1999 <>World Cup (cricket): 2003 <>World Cup (cricket): 2007 <>World Cup (cricket): 2011 <>World Cup (cricket): 2015