IPL

The Indian Premier League (IPL) is a  Twenty20 cricket competition in India. It is currently contested by 10 teams consisting of players from around the world. It was started after an altercation between the BCCI and the Indian Cricket League.In 2010, IPL became the first sporting event ever to be broadcast live on YouTube. Its brand value is estimated to be around $ 3.67 billion in fourth season. According to global sports salaries review, IPL is the second highest-paid league, based on first-team salaries on a pro rata basis, second only to the NBA. It is estimated that the average salary of an IPL player over a year would be $3.84 million. The brand value of Mumbai Indians (finalist IPL 2010) is estimated at USD 57.13 Million.
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Winners of ICC WorldCup Cricket

Year                          Team                               Captain

1975                          Australia                         Ian Chappell

1979                          West Indies                    Clive Lloyd

1983                          India                                Kapil Dev

1987                          Australia                         Allan Border

1992                          Pakistan                          Imran Khan

1996                          Srilanka                          Arjuna Ranatunga

1999                          Australia                         Steven Waugh

2003                          Australia                         Ricky Ponting

2007                          Australia                         Ricky Ponting

2011                          India                               Mahenndra Singh Dhoni

Out

When a bowler gets a batsman out it is said that the bowler gets a "wicket". if the ball is bowled and hits the striking batsman's wickets the batsman is given out (as long as at least one bail is removed by the ball). if a batsman hits the ball or touches the ball at all with his bat or hand/glove holding the bat then the batsman can be caught out. Leg Before Wicket (LBW) - If the ball is bowled and it hits the batsman first without the bat hitting it. however the umpire need to decide is would the ball have hit the wickets if the batsman was not there. If his answer to this is yes and the ball was not pitched on the leg side of the wicket he can safely give the batsman out. However if the ball hits the batsman outside the line of off stump while he was attempting to play a stroke then he is not out. a batsman is out if no part of his bat or body is grounded behind the popping crease while the ball is in play and the wicket is fairly put down by the fielding side.  if a batsman hits his wicket down with his bat or body after the bowler has entered his delivery stried and the ball is in play then he is out.

Wide Ball

"Wide Ball" will be declared if the umpire thinks the batsman did not have a reasonable opportunity to score off the delivery. However if the delivery is bowled over the batsmen's head it will not be declared a wide but a no ball. Umpires are much stricter on wide deliveries in the shorter format of the game while being much more relaxed in test cricket. A wide delivery will add one run to the batting team and any runs scored by the batsman. The batsman is not able to get out off a wide delivery except if they are stumped, run out, handle the ball, hit their wicket or obstruct the field.

"No Ball

A "No Ball" can be declared for many reasons: If the bowler bowls the ball from the wrong place, the ball is declared dangerous (often happens when bowled at the batsmen's body on the full), bounces more than twice or rolls before reaching the batsman or if fielders are standing in illegal positions. The batsman can hit a no ball and score runs off it but cannot be out from a no ball except if they are ran out, hit the ball twice, handle the ball or obstruct the field. The batsman gains any runs scored off the no ball for his shot while the team also gains one run for the no ball itself.

Test cricket

Test cricket is a game that spans over two innings. This means that one team needs to bowl the other team out twice and score more runs then them to win the match. Another key difference between test cricket and other forms of cricket is the length of the innings. In test cricket there is no limit to the innings length. Whereas in one day cricket & Twenty20 cricket there are a certain amount of overs per innings. The only limits in test cricket is a 5 day length. Before the game begins an official will toss a coin. The captain who guesses the correct side of the coin will then choose if they want to bat or field first. One team will then bat while the other will bowl & field. The aim of the batting team is to score runs while the aim of the fielding team is to bowl ten people out and close the batting teams' innings. Although there are eleven people in each team only ten people need to be bowled out as you cannot have one person batting alone. Batting is done in pairs.
Once the first team has been bowled out the second team would then go into bat. Once the second team is then bowled out it would normally return to the first team batting again. However there is an exception to this in the cricket rules, it is called the follow-on. The follow-on is when the first team makes at least 200 runs more than the second team made. This then gives the first team the option to make the second team bat again. This is particularly useful if the game is progressing slowly or affected by bad weather and there might not be enough time for both teams to play a full innings. If one team is not bowled out twice and a winner determined in the five days of play the game is declared a draw. Therefore it may be worth declaring an innings to create the possibility of a win rather than a draw.

Man of the Match

In cricket, Man of the match is usually awarded to the player whose contribution is seen as critical in winning the game.However, there have been many instances when the performance of the losing team's player earned him the award. Sachin Tendulkar holds the record for maximum number of MoM.
Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was named the Man of the Match of the final against Sri Lanka.Dhoni scored an unbeaten 91 runs and shared 91 runs with Gautam Gambhir. displayed a real captain’s innings today in final at Mumbai Wankhade Stadium .

Man of the Series

Man of the Series award is given to the outstanding player, almost always the one who makes the most impact, in a particular series. This can be a player from either team, usually the winning team.  the award itself may involve cash, a trophy, or a celebratory magnum of champagne. Yuvraj Singh of the Indian team was named the Man of the Series of the 2011 World Cup of the final against SriLanka. Yuvraj scored 362 runs and took 15 wickets, winning four Man of Match awards during the tournament. He has displayed an all rounder performance in this World cup 2011. It has been a wonderful tournament for Yuvraj Singh with bat and ball. Yuvraj is the perfect man to get the Man of the series award for ICC world Cup 2011. When all is well with Yuvraj Singh, he hits the ball as clean and long as it has ever been hit.Yuvraj’s most memorable performance was in the world cup T20 2007 when hit six sixes in an over against England.  

Champions of ICC World Cup Cricket 2011

India vs. Srilanka

Final Match was held on Saturday April 2^nd at Mohali stadium in Mumbai, India. Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bat first. They started off pretty good and were able to pull up a score of 274. India has won the 2011 Cricket world cup by 6 wickets over Sri Lanka. They scored 277 runs. The captain of Indian team, MS. Dhoni crushed a six on the final ball to complete the chase for the Indians, who overcame a 274 run by their opponent, despite losing their first two batsmen including the master Sachin Tendulkar in the opening overs. The Indian team lifts the World cup after the long of 28 years.

Australian Team

                  Australia is a strong team in the world of cricket. Some of the world’s strongest players come from Australia. The Australian cricket team strongly believes in strengthening and protecting the spirit of Cricket. The Australian Cricket Team, along with the English Cricket Team is the oldest Cricket Team in the world. Having played their first match in 1877, the Australian Cricket Team has so far played abiut 682 Tests and 625 ODIs. The Australians have performed exceptionally well over the years.  Australia has won the World Cup thrice and is on the verge of a hat trick, having won the championship in 1999 and 2003. They had previously won it in 1987. They are rated number one in all the cricket ratings in the world, official and unofficial, in both forms of the game. One of the major strengths of the Australian Cricket Team is that the players who represent the team are perhaps some of the finest in the world. With Ricky Ponting, a brilliant batsman himself, leading the side, is it of little surprise that they perform son well. Other world class batsman like Mathew Hayden, Michael Clark and Adam Gilchrist form the backbone of the team, while Brett Lee, Glen McGrath and Shane Warne demolish the opposition with their accurate bowling. In the recent years the team has done particularly well under coach John Buchanan. But unfortunately, the team was disappointed when they were knocked out of the worldcup 2011 by the Indian Team. As a result, the Team captain Ricky pointing resigned from his captain title.

Pakistan Team

The Pakistan National Cricket Team is an international cricket team representing Pakistan. Pakistan has emerged as a formidable opposition winning the Cricket World Cup in 1992 and being runners-up in the 1999 edition of the same. The country has a history of producing several top-notch bowlers such as  Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis and Shoaib Akhtar. T
The 2007 Cricket World Cup was one of the biggest upsets in World Cup history when Pakistan was knocked out of the competition in a shock defeat to Ireland, who were playing in a World Cup for the first time. Pakistan began picking up the pieces and made positive strides in the inaugural ICC World Twenty20 in September 2007. The team, however, had to contend with second place losing to India in a nail-biting final. They compensated for this loss by winning the next ICC World Twenty20 in 2009 where they beat Sri Lanka in the finals.
In the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup, Shahid Afridi led Pakistan to the semi-finals but the team lost to arch-rivals India in a nerve-wracking encounter which ultimately brought an end to their World Cup campaign.