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Warm-up Matches of ICC World Cup 2011 - Fixtures and Schedules

Posted: 17 Jan 2011 01:31 AM PST


The world Cup matches starts from the Feb-19. (Click Here for the schedule) Before playing the mega-event the teams will play warm-up match with other participating teams in the soil of World Cup hosting nations. 14 warm-ups are scheduled starting from 12th of Feb to 18th of Feb. Each team will play 2 matches as the wrm-up matches. Here is schedule of the matches:


Date Match Details Time Venue
Feb 12 Saturday West Indies v Kenya 04:00 GMT 09:30 IST R.Premadasa Stadium Colombo
Feb 12 Saturday Bangladesh v Canada 04:00 GMT 09:30 IST Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium Chittagong
Feb 12 - Saturday Ireland v New Zealand 04:00 GMT 09:30 IST Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground Nagpur
Feb 12 - Saturday Sri Lanka v Netherlands 04:00 GMT 09:30 IST Pallekele International Cricket Stadium Pallekele
Feb 12 - Saturday South Africa v Zimbabwe 09:00 GMT 14:30 IST MA Chidambaram Stadium Chennai
Feb 13 - Sunday India v Australia 09:00 GMT 14: 30 IST M.Chinnaswamy Stadium Bengaluru
Feb 15 - Tuesday Kenya v Netherlands 04:00 GMT 09: 30 IST Pallekele International Cricket Stadium Pallekele
Feb 15 - Tuesday Ireland v Zimbabwe 04:00 GMT 09: 30 IST Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground Nagpur
Feb 15 - Tuesday Bangladesh v Pakistan 08:30 GMT 14: 00 IST Shere Bangla National Stadium Dhaka
Feb 15 - Tuesday Australia v South Africa 09:00 GMT 14:30 IST M.Chinnaswamy Stadium Bengaluru
Feb 16 - Wednsday Canada v England 03:30 GMT 09:00 IST

 Shere Bangla National Stadium Dhaka
Feb 16 - Wednsday Sri Lanka v West Indies 04:00 GMT 09:30 IST R.Premadasa Stadium Colombo
Feb 16 - Wednsday India v New Zealand 09:00 GMT 14:30 IST MA Chidambaram Stadium Chennai
Feb 18 - Friday England v Pakistan 08:30 GMT 14:00 IST Shere Bangla National Stadium Dhaka

Indian Team for ICC World Cup 2011 | Teams and Squad

Posted: 17 Jan 2011 12:11 AM PST


Indian team for the world Cup Cricket is announced from Chennai. The five members selection commitee finalised the last 15 playing member for the side. Earlier 30-members probable was announced. Rohit Sharma, Sreesanth, Ishant Sharma and pragyan Ojha could not make their place for this mega event.
The team comes as this:
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt/wk), Virender Sehwag (Vice-capt), Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Munaf Patel, Praveen Kumar, Yusuf Pathan, Piyush Chawla, R Ashwin, Ashish Nehra.

The team consists of four pacers lead by Zaheer Khan. He will be followed by Ashish Nehra, Munaf Patel and Praveen Kumar. In the spinning department Harbhajan Singh will be helped by off-spinners R Ashwin and leg-spinner Piyush Chawla. Interesting, Piyush Chawla was not playing any ODIs since 2008 July. He's in the squad against SA but hasn't played both the ODIs.

Fitness of Tendulkar was said not be of big concern. Earlier he returned home after playing 1st ODI against SA due to injury. Tendulkar will be fully available for his sixth and maybe last World Cup for Team India.

Rohit Sharma could not find his place in the side before Suresh Raina and Virat Kohli. Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir will be opening the side. But it might be Virat Kohli who will help the team if the duo will be unvailable during any matches in WC. Yusuf Pathan, Yuvraj Singh and Dhoni will be holding keys for the middle order.

The team hasn't picked up any extra wicket-keeper in the 15-man squad. Dinesh Karthik was expected but he also could not make into the side. Interesting to see if Dhoni becomes unavailable or the team can't be resting Dhoni in any match of World Cup.
Posted by MohammaD IsmaiL at 7:42 AM

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