Dream Of Trophy: India vs Sri Lanka Final of world cup

Aamchi Mumbai is all set for the clash of Final between co-hosts India and Sri Lanka for the title of World cup 2011. Both the teams are ready for clash and must have some pressure to win the trophy. Though it is just one more game of cricket there is some more involved in the game and that is emotions of people from both countries. Numerologists and Pandits have rubbed their hand to get fame by predicting the winner for the finals. After beating arch-rivals Pakistan in the semis India is more confident but at the same time Sri Lanka is not the team to ignore when all of their top players are in good form.

India have played very well throughout the tournament and beaten Australia, Pakistan in quarter and semi final respectively. On the other hand Sri Lanka have beaten England and New Zealand. Both the teams are looking good and it will be very tough contest. Pressure and expectation will be very high so players need to keep their head cool and play the game with patience. If we look at the batting line up Sri Lankan openers are in really good form while experienced Jayawardena and Sangakara looks solid in the middle order. They have deep batting line up and if Angelo Mathews is going to play tomorrow it will give them extra advantage in batting. Dilshan, Sangakara and Jayawardena have good record against India. At the same time Indian openers are also in very good form and have given good start in all the matches. Yuvraj Singh, Gambhir have taken responsibilities in middle order while Raina doing good in death overs.

Batting line up of both the teams are looking same as many players are in very good form. Bowling is bit worry for India as Harbhajan Singh and Munaf Patel havent got proper rythem yet. Sri Lankan bowlers are doing really good job with three Ms(Murali, Mendis and Malinga). For India Zaheer Khan has done really well while Yuvraj imerge with his bowling performance. Ashish Nehra is injured and ruled out of the final. Ashwin will replace Nehra from winning elevan against Pakistan. As the final is in India and its homeground of Master Blaster Sachin, every Indian is expecting India to win and Sachin to complete his 100th century at home.

From India's point of view this is not just a final game, it is dream of many. Specially as it is probably last world cup for Sachin Tendulkar and India never won any world cup in which Sachin played, it is dream for India to give world cup trophy to him as a gift for serving 21 long years in Indian cricket and being Ideal cricketer for world. Lets hope we will win it. At the same time it is the last game of legendary spinner Murlidharan who is highest wicket taker in the world of cricket. It will be a good contast between highest run getter and highest wicket tacker.

Key Player:

India: Sachin, Sehwag, Yuvraj, Zaheer, Raina.

Sri Lanka: Dilshan, Sangakara, Jayawardena, Malinga, Murlidharan, Mendis.

Preview India vs Bangladesh

First game of cricket’s big event world cup 2011, is kicking of today with both co-hosts playing against each other. Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur is ready to host first knock. Bangladesh has been gripped by cricket fever all over the country.

The Tigers upset India by five wickets in their first match of the previous World Cup in the Caribbean in 2007 causing India to be knocked out in the first round itself. Following this victory they have created big upset by beating South Africa in super eight round.

India have won 20 of their 22 one-day matches against the Tigers, but Bangladeshi fans are confident about winning the day-night match. Familiar home conditions that assist the slow left-arm spin of Shakib and Abdur Razzak. Bangladesh have won seven out of 10 encounters at home soil in recent past which includes whitewash over New Zealand. They will have benifit of home soil while Dhoni’s team seems very confident to start their campaign with win over Bangladesh.

India has performed really well in warm-up matches and won both of them against Australia and New Zealand respectively. Dhoni’s men are mainly rely on batting line up which has record holder Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar who is probably playing his last world cup. Pace bowling is still a concern for India as it is totally dependant on Zaheer Khan, Other pacers are failed to impress in recent past and in warm up matches too. In this situation India has to rely on spinners to perform well in bowling department.

Yuvraj Singh’s form is also concern for India. Top order is filled with Sehwag, Sachin in opening and Gambhir following them at third place. Virat Kohli is good contender of fourth place and he has been very consistent in past few months. His contribution in past few months is very good for batting line up. Yousuf Pathan can be used as all rounder who provides good batting in death overs and one bowling option as spinner.

The main thing people looking at is who will sit out from the eleven. Dhoni might have to drop Yuvraj Singh or Suresh Raina.

India definitely have upper hand in this match but Bangladesh cant be underestimated specially on their home soil. Sakib-al-Hasan is very impressive as captain as well as all rounder.

Lets hope India start their campaign with easy win which gives lot of confident going further in the tournament.

World Cup 2011 - India

Less than 5 days to go for the biggest event of ICC World Cup 2011 and the subcontinent is ready for it. This time it is very special world cup for India in many aspects. First of all India is co-host of the event of cricket and everyone knows cricket is religion in the country. Second, Indian team looks very confident and we can say it is one of the best team compositions in last many years. Biggest reason for the world cup being special is God of cricket, Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar is playing his last world cup and in his 21 years career he has played 5 world cup and he was highest run scorer twice, still India has not registered world cup glory in his time.

Indian team looks pretty confident for the event with great combination with ball and bat. With the likes of Sehwag, Gambhir, Sachin, Kohli, Yuvraj, Raina and Pathan batting line up looks really good while Zaheer, Nehra, Sreesanth, Harbhajan, Chawla looks good in the bowling department. Pathan, Yuvraj can be used as part time bowlers too. Praveen kumar who has really good record on Indian pitches is going to miss this world cup.

All the team looks really good for the mega event and as it is happening in the subcontinent expectation is more from team. Dhoni has been consistent from last few years and team is performing really well under his captainship. All the players are ready to give their 100% to win world cup for country and Master Sachin Tendulkar, every one excited to gift world cup trophy to master when he is playing his last world cup.

In the first round India is playing with five teams and it will not be difficult for India to advance in next round as matches with Bangladesh and Ireland will be easy to win. India is playing first world cup game against other co-host Bangladesh. This match could be tough one for India as we have seen few upsets by Bangladesh in last few world cups. Second match is with England. England looks very much balanced side in this world cup. They gonna surely miss Eoin Morgan in the middle order but with experienced Bopara they can manage to have strong middle order.

Third match is with Ireland who are playing as underdog team in the world cup and it would not be difficult for India to win that match. Fourth match is with One of world cup contenders South Africa, they are in really good form and recently defeated India at their home grounds. This will give them some confident to enter in World cup.

Last league match India is going to play with West Indies. West Indians can be good competitors but India will be favorites in that game.

By looking at this India’s path to top 8 teams seems bit easy but the hurdles will come after that. There is a chance of India Vs Pakistan match in next round but it is very early to say this.

Lets cross the finger, wish and support our team to clinch this world cup for country, for Sachin Tendulkar and for the Indians to make proud on country.