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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

India seek to break hosts' curse

India have been good used to carrying a hopes of millions of cricket fans though right divided they will additionally try to overturn a weight of story by apropos a initial categorical horde republic to win a World Cup.
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NEW DELHI (AFP) – India have been good used to carrying a hopes of millions of cricket fans though right divided they will additionally try to overturn a weight of story by apropos a initial categorical horde republic to win a World Cup.

Home value is ostensible to equate for something in many sports though not so when it comes to winning a World Cup where particular luminosity or mathematical blunder have left those entertainment a celebration carrying to watch someone else travel divided with a many appropriate present.

England hosted a initial 3 World Cups, starting with a initial book in 1975 as well as their best-effort saw them finish runners-up to a star-studded West Indies side in 1979.

The pioneers of one-day cricket, England reached a semi-finals in 1975 usually to come up opposite desirous Australia all-rounder Gary Gilmour.

Left-arm paceman Gilmour done a many of a beneficial Headingley representation by receiving 6 wickets for fourteen runs as England collapsed to 93 all out as well as so became a initial bowler to take 6 wickets in a one-day international.

Australia slumped in spin to 39 for 6 usually for Gilmour to challenge them with a bat in a match-clinching twenty-eight not out.

Four years after England went a single improved though this time were dismantled by a West Indies.

Batting good Viv Richards beaten an dominant 138 as well as common a century mount with Collis King, whose 86 incited a waves in his side’s favour.

The 2011 Cricket World Cup takes place in India, Sri Lanka as well as Bangladesh from Feb 19-April 2, 2011 with fourteen nations receiving partial in a marathon six-week tournament.
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England openers Mike Brearley as well as Geoff Boycott done a plain begin in reply but, chasing 287 for victory, they couldn’t keep up with a rate.

West Indies’ hulk quick bowler, Joel Garner, constructed multiform unplayable yorkers in a five-wicket transport which finished England’s slim chances of victory.

There was no third time propitious for England when an unheralded Indian side, a contingent champions, kick them by 6 wickets in a 1983 semi-final.

The initial sub-continental World Cup in 1987 was set up to furnish an India-Pakistan final.

But it was Australia as well as England, who done it in to a last won by an rising Aussie side after they any degraded a Asian giants in their particular semi-finals.

Australia were gladdened to quick bowler Craig McDermott’s excellent lapse of 5 for 44 as they kick Pakistan by eighteen runs in Lahore whilst England’s Graham Gooch swept India’s spinners to daze in a match-winning 115.

Australia as well as New Zealand common a entertainment of a World Cup in 1992 as well as this time around Allan Border’s organisation couldn’t even have it to a semi-finals.

New Zealand, led by Martin Crowe, did get to a last 4 usually to see Inzamam-ul-Haq, afterwards usually 22, strike a 37-ball 60 in Auckland which set Pakistan up for feat over England in a final.

India, Pakistan as well as Sri Lanka were a corner hosts for a 1996 World Cup. India kick Pakistan in a quarter-finals though afterwards mislaid to Sri Lanka in a last 4 after compare arbitrate Clive Lloyd awarded a diversion to a islanders after riots in Kolkata.

Sri Lanka, captained by warlike skipper Arjuna Ranatunga, kick Australia in a day/night last in Lahore.

When a Word Cup returned to England in 1999, a hosts were separated prior to a contest strain had reached record-store shelves.

South Africa as well unsuccessful to get out of a organisation theatre in 2003 when a distortion saw them consider they’d clinched feat in a rain-affected contingency win diversion opposite Sri Lanka when in actuality they’d usually tied.

West Indies did during slightest strech a Super Eights in 2007 though after starting a second proviso with a 103-run thrashing by Australia, who would win a third true title, were never in a track for a semi-final spot.

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