Good times are here for India. The country will get to host the tenth world cup of its most loved sport in 2011 along with co-hosts Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. It will be the first time co-hosting for Bangladesh in a cricket world cup. Fourteen national teams are scheduled to compete for the coveted cup between February and early April 2011. According to the announced fixtures of ICC World Cup 2011, the first match will be played among co-hosts India and Sri Lanka at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur.
It is also Muttiah Muralitharan's final international appearance. He's injured, in more places than one, but he's not going to pass up this stage. Sri Lanka wouldn't want him to either, on one leg or none. And then there's Sachin Tendulkar, who's been playing top-flight cricket for more years (22) than he has not (16) but hasn't won a World Cup yet. India will either celebrate with him tonight, or cherish a magnificent career that sadly was without team glory.
Pitch Report
Highest Team Total : 358/6 in 50 overs New Zealand against Canada in March 2011
Highest Team Total for India : 299/4 in 40 overs against Srilanka in January 1987
Highest Team Total for Srilanka : 289/7 in 40 overs against India in January 1987
Lowest Team Total : 115 in 36.3 overs against India in May 1998
Lowest Team Total for India 116/5 in 29.2 overs against Bangladesh in May 1998
In World Cup:
Played 7 times against each other in world cups and Sri Lanka leads 4 to 2 with one no result
Sri Lanka beat India by 47 runs at Old Trafford, 16 June 1979.
India v Sri Lanka, no result at Mackay, 28 February 1992.
Sri Lanka beat India by 6 wickets at Delhi, 2 March 1996.
Sri Lanka beat India (default) at Kolkata, 13 March 1996.
India beat Sri Lanka by 157 runs at Taunton, 26 May 1999.
India beat Sri Lanka by 183 runs at Jo’burg, 10 Mar 2007.
Sri Lanka beat India by 69 runs at Port of spain, 23 Mar 2007.
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