Bangladesh Beat England At Cricket World Cup

Cricket World Cup 2011, played at Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong. Home side got the target of 226 runs in 49 overs.

According to details Bangladesh won the toss and elected to field first. Both English openers Andrew Strauss and Matt Prior failed to score today and turned back to pavilion after scoring 18 and 15 runs respectively. The third English wicket fell on 53 when Ian Bell got dismissed by Mahmudullah on 5. He faced 23 balls for this score. After losing three early wickets Jonathan Trott and Eoin Morgan played very sensible cricket and added 107 runs in the fourth wicket partnership. The innings of Morgan ended on 63.

Trott became the fifth wicket of home side; he scored 67 runs on 99 balls. Ravinder Bopara contributed his role by adding his 16 runs to his side’s total. On 209, the seventh wicket of English team fell, when Graeme Swann goes caught and bowled by Saqibul. He scored 12. Tim Bresnan was dismissed by Rubel on 2. Paul Collingwood goes runout on the second last ball of final over. He scored 14 on 13 balls. At the end the final score of English team was 225 in 49.4 overs. Naeem Islam, Abdur Razzak and Saqibul Hasan finished the innings of 2, 2 players.

Following the target of 226, both openers Tamim Iqbal and Imrul Kayes took an aggressive and confident start and built up the opening partnership of 52 runs. Iqbal got clean bowled by Bresnan on 38. Junaid Siddique goes runout after scoring 12 runs. Soon after, Raqibul Hasan was taken by Shahzad, he can’t opened his score account. On this stage captain Saqibul Hasan played very sensible cricket along with Kayes and added 88 runs in the fourth wicket partnership.

The innings of Kayes ended on 60; he faced 100 balls for this score. The fifth Bangladeshi wicket fell on 162 when Saqibul Hasan was dismissed by Swann on 32.
Wicketkeeper batsman Mushfiqur Rahim contributed his role by adding his 6 runs to his side’s total. Naeem Islam turned back to pavilion on duck. On this stage Mohammad Mahmudullah and Shafiul Islam played great cricket and with the mutual partnership of 58 runs got the target on the last ball of 49th over. Mahmudullah was not out on 21 while Shafiul Islam on 24.

Ajmal Shahzad was the most successful bowler from English team, who finished the innings of 3 players.

Cricket World Cup 2011: Sri Lanka beat Zimbabwe to reach quarter finals

Sri Lanka (327-6) beat Zimbabwe (188) by 139 runs

Tillakaratne Dilshan smashed 144 before taking 4-4 to help Sri Lanka to victory.
Together with fellow opener Upul Tharanga, who hit a career-best 133, Dilshan put on a new World Cup opening stand of 282 to guide Sri Lanka to an imposing 327-6 before a packed 30,000 crowd at Pallekele stadium.
Zimbabwe made a fighting reply with Brendon Taylor (80) and Regis Chakabva (35) through a solid 116-run start before the innings fell apart, as they lost their last their last nine wickets for just 63 runs.
Dilshan, who bettered his previous best of 4-29 against India at Dambulla in 2005, also became the 11th all-rounder, and the second Sri Lankan behind Sanath Jayasuriya, to score a hundred and take four wickets in an ODI.
The result meant Sri Lanka, with seven points from five matches in Group A, become the first side to enter the last eight.
New Zealand, with six points from four matches, Pakistan (six from four) and defending champions Australia (five from three) are virtually certain of filling the three other qualifying places from the group.
Sri Lanka owed their total to Dilshan and Tharanga who set the ball rolling after they were put into bat on a batting-friendly pitch, just failing to beat the world record first wicket stand of 286 runs.
Tharanga, who also featured in a that stand, with Jayasuriya against England at Leeds in 2006, hit his 10th one-day hundred, while Dilshan notched his ninth, and second in the World Cup.
Their stand was also the fourth highest partnership for any wicket in ODI history.
Dilshan, 34, smashed one six and 16 boundaries during his attractive 131-ball knock, cutting loose as early as in the second over, hitting paceman Tinashe Panyangara for three boundaries and a six.
The 26-year-old left-hander Tharanga, whose previous best of 120 came against England at Lord's in 2006, hit 17 boundaries during his 141-ball innings, as both the openers batted without trouble.
Dilshan reached his hundred with a quick single towards cover off Elton Chigumbura, taking 95 balls to reach the three-figure as a capacity 30,000 gave him a standing ovation.
In the 33rd over, Tharanga hit Tinashe Panyangara for another boundary to create a new World Cup record for the first wicket, beating the 194 set by Pakistan's Saeed Anwar and Wajahatullah Wasti, against New Zealand at Manchester in 1999.
Tharanga soon joined Dilshan as century maker when he drove Raymond Price towards extra-cover to reach his first World Cup hundred.
Tharanga was the first to go, miscuing a drive off paceman Christopher Mpofu in the 45th over, while Dilshan fell to a lofted shot off spinner Prosper Utseya in the next.
Mpofu then chipped in with wickets of Mahela Jayawardene (nine), Angelo Mathews (nought) and Chamara Silva (four) to finish with 4-64 in an otherwise hapless Zimbabwean bowling show.
Sri Lanka now face New Zealand in their last match in Mumbai on March 18 which will decide where they finish in the group.
Zimbabwe, with two points from four matches, can still make it to the quarters (on better net run-rate) if they win their last two matches, the first of which is against Pakistan on Monday and the next against Kenya on March 20.

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ICC Cricket World Cup 2011: Pakistan Defeat Sri Lanka by 11 Runs

Exciting cricket took place in Columbo RPS in the day/night ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 match between Pakistan and Sri Lanka on Saturday 26th February 2011.
Pakistan set Sri Lanka a total of 277 for 7 from their 50 overs, to which Sri Lanka could only manage 266 for 9 in response, which meant that Pakistan won by 11 runs.
The win came down to two excellent Pakistan performances, as Shahid Afridi, Pakistan’s captain, excelled with the ball once again in this tournament – he took 4 for 34 off his 10 overs – and Misbah-ul-Haq added a vital 83 Not Out with the bat.
Pakistan won the toss, and elected to bat, and were soon off to good start as runs came at a good rate, though Sri Lanka kept themselves in touch by producing regular wickets, to reduce their rivals to 105 for 3. With the match finely balanced, Misbah-ul-Haq (83 Not Out) and Younus Khan (72) did the main damage of the innings, by putting on a partnership of 108 runs for the fourth wicket.
Five overs remained for a couple of quick-scoring cameo appearances from U Akmal (10 from 15 deliveries) and Shahid Afridi (16 from 12 deliveries) thanks to the steady ship Khan and Misbah had set up.
Those runs would later prove vital, as Sri Lanka, despite getting off to a great start – putting on 76 runs without loss – could not quite get the run rate up in the middle part of the innings.
A flurry of wickets arrived, once Tharanga (33) was caught by Shahid Afridi from the bowling of Mohammad Hafeez, before the captain took over the wicket taking, by bowling the other opening batsman, Dilshan, on 41 runs.
When Jayawardene (2), who was bowled by Shoaib Akhtar, was quickly followed into the pavilion by Samaraweera (1), stumped by K Akmal from the bowling of Afridi, Sri Lanka had fallen to 96 for 4 wickets.
Sangakkara (49) and Silva (57) then put on an important partnership of 73 runs, which looked to be inching Sri Lanka towards the finishing line, before Shahid Afridi got Sangakkara one short of a deserved half century – the catch was taken by Shehzad.
The same combination took out Mathews (18) and put Sri Lanka on 209 for 6 wickets, with only a handful of overs remaining, and the run-rate required creeping ever higher.
When Perera (8) – bowled Shoaib Akhtar – was followed just one run later by Silva (57) – stumped K Akmal bowled Rehman, the task seemed to become much sterner.
However, Kulasekara had a good go at saving the day for Sri Lanka, in knocking up a super-fast 24 runs – featuring one six and two fours, from just 14 deliveries. When he was dismissed, caught U Akmal, from the bowling of Gul, Sri Lanka appeared to be – and were indeed – out of batting options.
Time ran out for Sri Lanka, with the required score just 11 runs away when the 50 over point arrived.
Pakistan will be thankful, once again, to their captain Shahid Afridi, who was absolutely instrumental to their success today: his 16 runs and 4 wickets proved to be very much the difference between winning and losing this entertaining cricket match.
Sri Lanka will be bitterly disappointed to have lost this game, having come so close, but must console themselves with the fact that, but for one very good performance from one of the world’s best, they could easily have got over the line today.

 

Sri Lanka v Pakistan – ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 Scorecard

Pakistan 1st Innings			Runs	Balls	4s	6s
Shehzad	c Sangakkara	b Perera	13	23	2	0
Mohammad Hafeez	run out (Muralitharan)		32	31	4	1
K Akmal	st Sangakkara	b Herath	39	48	5	0
Younus Khan	c M Jayawardene	b Herath	72	76	4	0
Misbah-ul-Haq	not out		83	91	6	0
U Akmal	c Dilshan	b Muralitharan	10	15	1	0
Shahid Afridi	c Dilshan	b Mathews	16	12	3	0
Razzaq	c Sub	b Perera	3	4	0	0
Extras		5w 4lb	9
Total		for 7	277	(50.0 ovs)
Sri Lanka Bowlers	O	M	R	W
Kulasekara	10	1	64	0
Perera	9	0	62	2
Mathews	10	0	56	1
Muralitharan	10	0	35	1
Herath	10	0	46	2
Dilshan	1	0	10	0

Sri Lanka 1st Innings			Runs	Balls	4s	6s
Tharanga	c Shahid Afridi	b Mohammad Hafeez	33	43	6	0
Dilshan		b Shahid Afridi	41	55	5	0
Sangakkara	c Shehzad	b Shahid Afridi	49	61	2	1
M Jayawardene		b Shoaib Akhtar	2	10	0	0
Samaraweera	st K Akmal	b Shahid Afridi	1	4	0	0
Silva	st K Akmal	b Rehman	57	78	5	0
Mathews	c Shehzad	b Shahid Afridi	18	20	2	0
Perera		b Shoaib Akhtar	8	6	1	0
Kulasekara	c U Akmal	b Gul	24	14	2	1
Herath	not out		4	10	0	0
Muralitharan	not out		0	1	0	0
Extras		2nb 16w 1b 10lb	29
Total		for 9	266	(50.0 ovs)
Pakistan Bowlers	O	M	R	W
Shoaib Akhtar	10	0	42	2
Razzaq	5	1	23	0
Gul	9	0	60	1
Mohammad Hafeez	6	0	33	1
Shahid Afridi	10	0	34	4
Rehman	10	1	63	1