2011 CRICKET WORLD CUP: FACTS AND RECORDS

The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup was the tenth Cricket World Cup. It hosted by India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. Pakistan lost its chance to co-host due to security concern. The World Cup took place between February 19 and 2nd April 2011, with the first match played on 19 February 2011 with co-hosts India and Bangladesh facing off at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur, Dhaka. The final match was  on 2 April 2011 between India and Sri Lanka at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. The tournament was won by India who defeated Sri Lanka by 6 wickets in the final .India became the first nation to win a World Cup final on home soil

Champion                      :          India

Runners up                     :           Sri Lanka

Participants                     :           14 teams

Man of the Series            :           Yuvraj Singh

Most runs                        :           Tillakaratne Dilshan (500)

Most wickets                   :           Shahid Afridi (21)

                                                    Zaheer Khan (21)

 Most runs

	Player	Team	Runs
1	TM Dilshan	Sri Lanka	500
2	SR Tendulkar	India	482
3	KC Sangakkara	Sri Lanka	465

                        Most wickets

Shahid Afridi 

Pakistan

Wicket:21

Zaheer Khan

                        India

Wicket:21

Tim Southee

 New Zealand

Wicket:18

 Hat-trick 

 West Indies pace bowler Kemar Roach recorded the first hat-trick of the 2011 World Cup against the Netherlands .He removed Pieter Seelaar, Bernard Loots and Berend Westdijk.

Malinga fired back with the wickets of Tanmay Mishra (0), Peter Ongondo (0) and Shem Ngoche (0) with successive, full deliveries he became the first man to pick up two World Cup hat-tricks. In 2007: Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka) made hat-trick v South Africa (Shaun Pollock, Andrew Hall, Jacques Kallis, Makhaya Ntini).

Most sixes

	Name	Team	Sixes	Runs
1	LRPL Taylor	New Zealand	14	324
2	KA Pollard	West indies	11	180
3	KJ O'Brien	Ireland	9	198

                                Most four

TM Dilshan

Team : Srilanka

Fours : 61

Runs : 500

SR Tendulkar

Team : India

Fours : 52

Runs : 482

WU Tharanga

Team : Sri Lanka

Fours : 52

Runs : 395

Most catches

		player	Team		Matches	Catches
1		Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka		8	8
2		Jacques Kallis	South Africa		7	6
3		Robin Peterson	South Africa		7	6
		Pollard	West Indies		7	6
4	John Davison		Canada	5		5

 Highest team totals

India   370/4 runs against  Bangladesh

New Zealand  358/6 runs against  Canada

South Africa 351/5 runs against Netherlands

Highest scores

	Player	Team	Runs
1	Virender Sehwag	India	175
2	Andrew Strauss	England	158
3	Tillakaratne Dilshan	Sri Lanka	144*

Highest partnerships

 (by wicket)

 1^st       282              Sri Lanka Upul Tharanga- Tillakaratne Dilshan

 2nd     134              India Sachin Tendulkar    -Gautam Gambhir

 3rd      221           South Africa Hashim Amla- AB de Villiers

(by runs)

282     Sri Lanka Upul Tharanga -   Tillakaratne Dilshan

231*   Sri Lanka Upul Tharanga -   Tillakaratne Dilshan

221      South Africa HashimAmla- AB de Villiers

Player of the match awards

	Player	Team	No of awards
1	Yuvraj Singh	India	4
2	AB de Villiers	South Africa	2
3	Kemar Roach	West Indies	2

Most centuries.

2was the maximum number of centuries scored by a single batsman in world cup 2011.following batsman made two centuries in 2011 worl cup.

Sachin Tendulkar       :    India

AB de Villiers            :    South Africa

Tilla karatne Dilshan   :,   Sri Lanka

Mahela Jayawardene :     Sri Lanka

Upul Tharanga           :     Sri Lanka

Ryan ten Doeschate :     Netherlands

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