10th Cricket World Cup - 2011

ICC World Cup 2011-India, SriLanka and Bangladesh Winner : India Final Man of The Match : MS Dhoni (India) Tenth ODI Cricket World Cup was played in three countries : India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh between 14 International Teams. England, India, New Zealand, Australia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, West Indias,Zimbabwe, South Africa, Bangladesh, Canada, Kenya, Netherlands and Ireland participated for the 10th Cricket World Cup tournament. Total 49 games were played at 13 different venues of India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.  The best World Cup of all time resulted in favour of India. Indian skipper MS Dhoni played a masterful captain's innings to steer his side to World Cup success after long interwals of 28 years. Kapil Dev and his men first lifted world cup at Lord's in 1983. In the final match skipper MS Dhoni(91*) and Gambhir(97) lead India to World Cup glory in style. MS Dhoni (India) was man of the match for his match winning of 91* runs of 78 balls. World Cup 2011 Facts and Figures Host Country : India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh Teams : 14     (England, India, New Zealand, Australia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, West Indias, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Bangladesh, Canada, Kenya, Netherlands, Ireland) Games : 49 Venues : 13 Format : Four groups of four teams, top two from each proceeded to the Super Eights, from which the semi-finalists were chosen and two winner teams of semi-finals progresses to Final. Winner : India Runners-up : Sri Lanka Prize money(winner) : US $ 5.00m Prize money(Runners-up) : US $ 2.24m Man of the match (Final) : MS Dhoni (India) Tournament Stats Most Runs   Player Country Match Runs HS Ave SR   TM Dilshan SL 9 500 144 62.50 90.74   SR Tendulkar Ind 9 482 120 53.55 91.98   KC Sangakkara SL 9 465 111 93.00 83.78   IJL Trott Eng 7 422 92 60.28 80.84   WU Tharanga SL 9 395 133 56.42 83.68   G Gambhir Ind 9 393 97 43.66 85.06   V Sehwag Ind 8 380 175 47.50 122.58   Yuvraj Singh Ind 9 362 113 90.50 86.19   AB de Villiers SA 5 353 134 88.25 108.28   AJ Strauss Eng 7 334 158 47.71 93.55 Most Wickets   Player Country Match Wickets BBI Ave Econ   Shahid Afridi Pak 8 21 5/16 12.85 3.62   Z Khan Ind 9 21 3/20 18.76 4.83   TG Southee NZ 8 18 3/13 17.33 4.31   RJ Peterson SA 7 15 4/12 15.83 4.25   M Muralitharan SL 9 15 4/25 19.40 4.09   Yuvraj Singh Ind 9 15 5/31 25.13 5.02   Imran Tahir SA 5 14 4/38 10.71 3.79   Umar Gul Pak 8 14 3/30 19.42 4.49   KAJ Roach WI 6 13 6/27 15.00 4.23   B Lee Aus 7 13 4/28 18.07 4.32 10th Cricket World Cup 2011 winner - India

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