History created on this day in cricket world cup  2011: On this day the Indian cricket team won the ICC world cup after 28 years.


ICC Cricket world cup 2011 final
ICC Cricket world cup 2011 final (Image credits: Twitter)

ICC Cricket world cup  2011 was hosted in India and Bangladesh. The day 2 march 2011 was the most influential day of Indian cricket history. Indian cricket team created history by winning cricket world cup 2011. This was the dream of every Indian cricket fans to win the world cup trophy once again after cricket world cup 1983  and Indian team fulfilled by Grabbing the trophy from cricket world cup  2011. Before ICC Cricket world cup 2011 final India Lost the final against Australia. 

Summary of Indian cricket team to enter in the finals of ICC world cup 2011:

  • India Vs Bangladesh 1st match of  ICC Cricket world cup 2011, opener played between India Vs Bangladesh in Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka. India team was exceptionally well throughout the match, posted the massive total of 370 runs loss of 4 wickets. Virendra Sehwag played an inning of 170 runs and Virat Kohli heat 100 runs. India won the match by 87 runs Bangladesh was managed 283 runs loss of 9 wickets. Virendra Sehwag got the Player of the Match prize. 

  • India vs England 2nd match of ICC Cricket world cup  2011 played in M.Chinaswami Stadium, Bengaluru. In this match, India again won the toss and bat first, Indian put the total of 338 by losing 10 all wickets. England team also performed magically throughout the match, but in the last, over of the match, England required 2 runs in the last ball and England did manage 1 run so match tied this was the fourth tie in the history of the ICC Cricket world cup  2011.
  • India vs Ireland 3rd match of ICC Cricket world cup  2011, India was easily won this match by 5 wickets.
  • India vs Netherlands 4th match of ICC Cricket world cup  2011, this was also managed India to win by 5 wickets.
  • India vs South Africa 5th match of ICC Cricket world cup  2011, this was the most crucial match played by India in VCA Stadium, Nagpur. Opening pair of the Indian team Sachin Tendulkar and Virendra Sehwag has contributed 100 plus partnership but after fall of opening pair batting lineup was collapsed badly. India only managed to score 298 with all wickets. South Africa easily managed this score and wins the match 3 wickets. this only match India did not win in the whole tournaments.
  • India vs Australia Quarterfinals of ICC Cricket world cup 2011, in this match, Indian team lost the toss it was the important toss for the big game against Australia. Australian team batting line up didn’t find the better way to tacked India baller and only scored 260 runs loss of 6 wickets. Indian batting line up performed well in the whole tournaments so it was an easy total to chase. India batting did it again and chase total in 48 over and qualified for Semi finals ICC Cricket world cup  2011 against Pakistan, Yuvraj Singh was the hero of the match he took 2 wickets with ball and 57 runs with the bat. He wins the player of the match prize for best performance. 
  • India vs Pakistan Semifinals of ICC Cricket world cup 2011, the match was played in the Panjab cricket association IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali India never loses the match against Pakistan in ICC Cricket world cup tournaments. Indian need to did it again to maintain this rivalry with a clean sweep. Opening pair of the Indian team Sachin Tendulkar and Virendra Sehwag has given a good start but due to middle performed, ordinary and Indian team did manage only 260 runs lose of 9 wickets. Now it’s for baller to shown their class so Pakistan could not chase this score easily. Baller was shown the pure class of Indian balling, Pakistan didn’t manage to score 260 runs and India won the match by 27 runs.
  • India vs Srilanka finals of ICC Cricket world cup 2011, final was played in Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai on the day of 2 March 2011, crucial toss won by Srilanka and elected to bat first, Srilanka was start inning nicely, Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene batting build partnership, Mahela Jayawardene hits hundred in ICC Cricket world cup finals. Srilanka ended with a score of 274 with a loss of 6 wickets. As the Final point of views, it was a good total to defend and they did it at the starting of an inning produced an early breakthrough of Sachin Tendulkar and Virendra Sehwag. On this day this time for a middle-order to show why Indian bating is best in the world all other teams. They did it by the ease, after the departure of opening pair Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir Manages the inning. After the wicket of Virat Kohli, Gautam Gambhir and MS Dhoni had a responsibility to win the match the build some partnership. When Gautam Gambhir was scored 97 Tushara Parera took his stumps and Gautam was missing his hundred by 3 runs only in the  ICC Cricket world cup 2011 finals.MS Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh managed to score those remaining runs.MS Dhoni finished the match  49th over and India won the ICC Cricket world cup 2011 finals Indian cricket team created History after 28 years of a long interval of time. India cricket team was the first team to won the world cup in the home soil.