Now all the eyes on Mohali where India-Pakistan semi-finals is to be played, which is tainted as most important ODI of the decade, considering the fierce rivalry between the nations. While analyzing the squad, few things can be easily ascertained.
Waqar Younis, Pakistan’s coach revealed that they are currently only focused on the game against Australia falls on this Saturday. Though, Pakistan entered in to knockout stage of world cup for the first time since 1999, they concentrating on beating world champions Australia.
Any given day, South Africans are surely a better team than India in all the departments barring batting. Indian batting line-up is the only worry for South Africa when both the teams met in Nagpur in a crucial ICC world cup 2011 match. It is considered a battle between Indian batting VS South African bowling.
South African’s favorite batsman AB de Villiers has scored his second century in the ICC World Cup 2011 at Feroz Shah Kotla. That was his tenth ton in ODI career and also the fastest by a South African in a World Cup. With his batting efforts Proteas has reached the 223 target in 43 rd over of the match.
Ryan ten Doeschate has produced fantastic all-round show against England, first by scoring a fine century, followed by very good bowling performance that has almost pushed England to the brink of defeat. But in the England denied Netherlands a unbelievable win in their World Cup opening match.
Wankhede Stadium underwent a fire inspecting recently and shockingly failed but World Cup’s tournament director Ratnakar Shetty have revealed confident that all the approvals and permission would be obtained before the New Zealand and Canada match on March 13. The world cup final 2011 is going to be held in the same venue on April 2.
Australia’s key player of World Cup 2011, Michael Hussey misses the tournament with the injury. Along with him Nathan Hauritz too not playing the World Cup due to injury. It is a huge loss of Australia since Hussey is considered as a good finisher. Hauritz too is consistently playing for Australia in one-dayers and Australia would surely miss his services.
Yesteryear great batsman Sunil Gavaskar has expressed his belief that India has got a well-balanced side for the forthcoming world cup to be held in India, which is having ability to win the coveted tournament. Dhoni’s team is capable of breaking the jinx of host team not winning the world cup.
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Former West Indian batting legend Brian Lara has tipped India to win the world cup 2011, which is set to start next month but he warned that India would be having enormous pressure to perform in front of the home crowd.
