Disappointed Sri Lanka players watch their opponents lift the trophy, India v Sri Lanka, final, World Cup 2011, Mumbai, April 2, 2011©Getty Images
The appearance of cricket results from India’s professional league on the LFP sports agate page (yay!) this week reminded JBNBlog it must be The Commonwealth’s Game.
This insight had arrived first via a 2007 trip to India when the India cricket team was staying in the same hotel & there was Beatlemania-worthy fandom outside. Three years later, Christmas in Australia meant a stay in Melbourne while England crunched Australia in The Ashes to the agony of our gracious hosts. TV coverage revealed strategy, athleticism & witty celebrations (from the England cricketers) previously unknown to JBNBlog.
In the spirit of those reports in this week’s LFP, here are samples of reactions from our South Asian friends & acquaintances gathered over the 14 months since India’s triumph in the 2011 World Cup. Our smiling friends from India immediately reported joy & celebrations surpassing Diwali back home. Our friends from Sri Lanka were proud of their country’s role as host & offered a complex explanation for its loss to India in the final, something to do with Sri Lanka’s star bowler & so lost on me. My bad. (In baseball terms, it would be a bit like a Dodger fan explaining the 1966 World Series loss to my Orioles in terms of Sandy Koufax’s mechanics being slightly off. Well. Maybe.) An electrical engineer/cab driver from Pakistan was blunt about Pakistan’s loss to India. That match had been fixed. Somehow. As always.
India vs. Pakistan? That 2007 India team staying in the Mumbai hotel had left for a World Cup in the West Indies & performed poorly. The only consolation for our friends then was Pakistan’s performance. Even worse.
With its “blue billion” fans in India & millions more in other Commonwealth countries, cricket is our common game. Even more than soccer. It is a pleasure to see the results occasionally in The Free Press.
Even if . . . big admission time . . . those figures & details mystify JBNBlog completely.
Any help in understanding the epic details which follow — courtesy of espncricinfo.com — would be gratefully appreciated.
The details of that April 2, 2011 match at Mumbai entranced many friends . . . JBNBlog would like to know how to read it.
- ODI no. 3148 | 2010/11 season
- Played at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
- 2 April 2011 – day/night (50-over match)
| Sri Lanka innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
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WU Tharanga | c Sehwag b Khan | 2 | 30 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 10.00 |
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TM Dilshan | b Harbhajan Singh | 33 | 87 | 49 | 3 | 0 | 67.34 |
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KC Sangakkara*† | c †Dhoni b Yuvraj Singh | 48 | 102 | 67 | 5 | 0 | 71.64 |
| DPMD Jayawardene | not out | 103 | 159 | 88 | 13 | 0 | 117.04 | |
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TT Samaraweera | lbw b Yuvraj Singh | 21 | 53 | 34 | 2 | 0 | 61.76 |
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CK Kapugedera | c Raina b Khan | 1 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20.00 |
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KMDN Kulasekara | run out (†Dhoni) | 32 | 41 | 30 | 1 | 1 | 106.66 |
| NLTC Perera | not out | 22 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 244.44 | |
| Extras | (b 1, lb 3, w 6, nb 2) | 12 | ||||||
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| Total | (6 wickets; 50 overs; 246 mins) | 274 | (5.48 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat SL Malinga, S Randiv, M Muralitharan |
| Fall of wickets 1-17 (Tharanga, 6.1 ov), 2-60 (Dilshan, 16.3 ov), 3-122 (Sangakkara, 27.5 ov),4-179 (Samaraweera, 38.1 ov), 5-182 (Kapugedera, 39.5 ov), 6-248 (Kulasekara, 47.6 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
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Z Khan | 10 | 3 | 60 | 2 | 6.00 | (1w) | |
| S Sreesanth | 8 | 0 | 52 | 0 | 6.50 | (2nb) | ||
| MM Patel | 9 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 4.55 | (1w) | ||
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Harbhajan Singh | 10 | 0 | 50 | 1 | 5.00 | (1w) | |
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Yuvraj Singh | 10 | 0 | 49 | 2 | 4.90 | ||
| SR Tendulkar | 2 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 6.00 | (3w) | ||
| V Kohli | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6.00 |
| India innings (target: 275 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
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V Sehwag | lbw b Malinga | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
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SR Tendulkar | c †Sangakkara b Malinga | 18 | 21 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 128.57 |
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G Gambhir | b Perera | 97 | 187 | 122 | 9 | 0 | 79.50 |
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V Kohli | c & b Dilshan | 35 | 69 | 49 | 4 | 0 | 71.42 |
| MS Dhoni*† | not out | 91 | 128 | 79 | 8 | 2 | 115.18 | |
| Yuvraj Singh | not out | 21 | 39 | 24 | 2 | 0 | 87.50 | |
| Extras | (b 1, lb 6, w 8) | 15 | ||||||
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| Total | (4 wickets; 48.2 overs; 230 mins) | 277 | (5.73 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat SK Raina, Harbhajan Singh, Z Khan, MM Patel, S Sreesanth |
| Fall of wickets 1-0 (Sehwag, 0.2 ov), 2-31 (Tendulkar, 6.1 ov), 3-114 (Kohli, 21.4 ov), 4-223 (Gambhir, 41.2 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
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SL Malinga | 9 | 0 | 42 | 2 | 4.66 | (2w) | |
| KMDN Kulasekara | 8.2 | 0 | 64 | 0 | 7.68 | |||
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NLTC Perera | 9 | 0 | 55 | 1 | 6.11 | (2w) | |
| S Randiv | 9 | 0 | 43 | 0 | 4.77 | |||
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TM Dilshan | 5 | 0 | 27 | 1 | 5.40 | (1w) | |
| M Muralitharan | 8 | 0 | 39 | 0 | 4.87 | (1w) |
| Match details |
| Toss Sri Lanka, who chose to bat Series India won the 2010/11 ICC Cricket World Cup |
| Player of the match MS Dhoni (India) Player of the series Yuvraj Singh (India) |
| Umpires Aleem Dar (Pakistan) and SJA Taufel (Australia) TV umpire IJ Gould (England) Match referee JJ Crowe (New Zealand) Reserve umpire SJ Davis (Australia) |
| Match notes |
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O = Overs. There are Six balls that can be bowled in an over at the batsman or batswoman.
M= Maiden Over…which means the bowler was so good that the batsman or woman was not able to score any ‘runs’ off the over.
R = number of runs scored…runs can be scored in a variety of ways…big hits over the boundary line are worth 6 runs…if the ball hits the ground before going over the boundary line it’s worth 4 runs…the batsmen running too and fro across the length of the wicket is one run for each successful pass. There are also leg byes the scoring of which varies.
W= Wickets taken…indicates the success of the bowler being able to get the ball past the batsman to knock the stumps over or the bails off.
C & B = Caught and Bowled…it’s a another way of getting the batsman out. C indicates who the catcher was, B indicates who bowled the ball.
LBW = Leg before wicket…usually meaning that rather than ‘playing the ball’ the batsman used his legs to block it from hitting the stumps.
These types of cricket have a limited amount of ‘overs’…50 overs (6balls per over) for each team. which is different from ‘Test Cricket’ which contains 4 innings and can last up to 5 days.
Classic commentary here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k0qZDdfvZk
Thanks, as always, Oliver. LBW was known to JBNBlog already, but the others are new to me. Great stuff. V. helpful indeed.
As for classic announcers, Australia was faring so poorly at the Ashes last year, there was a long moment when Shane Warne shared details on Christmas presents received by his kids . . . & we all thought he only cared about blonds apart from cricket.
Brian Johnston was one of the great cricket commentators.
Sending cake to the commentary box is a tradition started because of him…and his inadvertent gaffes are also part of cricket’s history too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Johnston