India Vs Pakistan Semifinal Clash

The match against India and Pakistan on March 30 at Mohali would be considered as Mother of all Battles, as both are being the rival countries and the expectation level of the cricket fans are at soaring heights. It’s more obvious that any cricketing side would feel the intense pressure on moving towards the prestigious trophy which all the countries dream of. Australian captain Ricky Ponting predicted that India would defeat Pakistan in the World Cup semi-final and to bring back the title after the prolongation of 28 years.   Get Live Cricket Scores of India Vs Pakistan semifinal match.

Though India had made their place in semi-final after defeating Australia at Ahmedabad, they would feel the pressure as they are to be the co-hosts of the 2011 World Cup. Moving with the bowling and batting line-up, the Asian pitches are tuned as the perfect bowling tracks which drive the success of the matches. This might help Pakistan better than India with their bowling capabilities. While going to the batting side, India has a good and powerful batting lineup with the opening batsmen to provide a good start in deserving victory.

Head to Head: India Vs Pakistan

Matches Played : 124
India : Won – 46 Lost – 69
Pakistan : Won – 69  Lost – 46

Matches Played in India : 28
India : Won – 9 Lost – 17
Pakistan : Won – 17 Lost – 9

In World Cup:
India : Won – 4 Lost – 0
Pakistan : Won – 0 Lost – 4

Certainly, India Vs Pakistan Semifinal match has now created a great hype and the sports loving nations would highly witness the history that is going to be made. The winners of the semi-final in Mohali would enter into the World Cup final and witness a match just away from becoming World Cup champions.

Pakistan pace man Shoaib akhtar to retire

Pakistan's pace man Shoaib Akhtar to retire from International Cricket after this world cup. He said that Pakistan's final match in this 2011 world cup would be his last one.

                                                                                                          
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9th March, India Vs Netherlands World Cup 2011

Cricket World Cup 2011 is been at the half stage now almost 23 matches got over and the heat is getting up. Everyone is very keen about which 8 teams qualify for the quarter-finals. Although it is bit clear, it is uncertain that which team faces each other in the quarters.

This 2011 cricket world cup like 2007 had some good cricket shown by minnows like Ireland and Netherlands. Netherland seems to be good cricket playing team as it face India on 9th march at feroz shah kotla stadium, Delhi.

Kevin O'Brien Century Against England helps Ireland to win the match

It was the 15th match of the cricket world cup 2011 at Chinnaswamy stadium Bangalore. The minnows Ireland shocked the England team by defeating them chasing world cup record of 328 runs. Kevin O'brien fastest century against England made this happen. He scored his century in just 50 balls. This is the fastest century in all world cups.

Earlier England set a massive total of 327. Three english men crossed half century with jonathan trott missing his century by just 8 short. England were very confident in defending the Irish as james anderson bowled the Irish skipper in the very first ball of the Ireland innings.

Ireland were 106/4 in 22.2 overs when Kevin O'brien come to crease. He reaches his 50 at the 33rd over in just 30 balls. Alex Cusack partnered him well as they both took Ireland very close to victory. Kevin O'brien scored his century in the 41st over and the Ireland were in need of 56 runs from 54 balls. He was out for 110 and john mooney played responsibly and took Ireland to Victory. 

2011 World Cup Points Table

2011 World Cup Points Table As on 23.2.2011 :

TEAM	Played	Won	Tie	Loss	NR	NRR	Points
Australia	1	1	0	0	0	+1.82	2
Canada	1	0	0	1	0	-4.20	0
Kenya	2	0	0	2	0	-4.90	0
New Zealand	1	1	0	0	0	+7.62	2
Pakistan	1	1	0	0	0	+4.10	2
Sri Lanka	1	1	0	0	0	+4.20	2
Zimbabwe	1	0	0	1	0	-1.82	0

TEAM	Played	Won	Tie	Loss	NR	NRR	Points
India	1	1	0	0	0	+1.74	2
England	1	1	0	0	0	+0.24	2
South Africa	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
West Indies	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ireland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Netherlands	1	0	0	1	0	-0.24	0
Bangladesh	1	0	0	1	0	-1.74	0

India vs bangladesh world cup 2011

India start with a winning streak in the 2011 world cup, revenge bangladesh with a win of 87 runs as the tigers gave India a bad exit in the 2007 world cup. Feb 19th world cup start as India play on bangladesh in Mirpur. Bangladesh captain shakib al hasan had won the toss and he put India to bat thinking of dew factor.

It was sehwag and sachin who started the game for India. They made a blistering start produces 24 runs in just 2 overs. They both made a healthy partnership of 68 runs in just 64 balls. In the 11th over sachin got run-out as sehwag didn't respond to his call. Gambir came to crease and steadied Indian innings, they played responsibly and put a partnership of 84 runs. Gambhir was bowled by Mahmudullah in the 24th over. Gambhir scored run a ball of 39 with 3 fours.

Then the young man virat kohli joined the master blaster sehwag and took India to post a mammoth total of 370 / 4 in 50 overs. Virat kohli made his maiden world cup century. He was not out till the end of the Indian innings. Sehwag scored massive 175 of just 140balls with 14 fours and 5 sixes.

INDIAN SCORE CARD:

V Sehwag 175 (140b 14x4 5x6)
V Kohli 100* (83b 8x4 2x6)
G Gambhir  39 (39b 3x4 0x6)
SR Tendulkar 28 (29b 4x4 0x6)

Bangladesh in reply to the Indian innings made a stunning start, scoring 53 runs in the first 5 overs. But they fail to capitalize the innings as the required run rate mounted high and they didn't take chances. At last it was India won the match and Virender Sehwag was adjudged man of the match for his blasing 175.

Google Doodle Celebrates Jules Verne Birthday

Google Doodle today celebrates the 183 birth anniversary of Jules Gabriel Verne, Famous french novelist. Among his  novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea(1870) and Around the world in eighty days (1873) were fantastic.


Jules Verne, a french science fiction novelist born on February 8, 1828 in France. His novels were all about stories on space and underwater travel. Even before existence of spaceships and submarines he started writing those science fiction novels.

In this Google doodle, the word Google functions as a submarine window. And fantastic thing is that on the right side of the logo you could see a red handle that controls your view from out your window. You can  move the handle as you wish, and the view changes according to that.