Great 1st Match of ICC Cricket World Cup,2007

In 2007 International Cricket Council World Cup of 50 over Matches was played in the Caribbean and the West Indies and Australia was the Defending champion as they won the last world Cup ICC played in 2003 in South Africa in which they beat India in the Finals.

1st match of the ICC cricket world cup was played on Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica on 13th March, 2007. This match is between the Host Nation West Indies and Pakistan. Pakistan won the toss and opts to bowl first, so this means West Indies will bat first.

This is how Pakistan team and 11 was looking like in this match: Shoaib Malik, Mohammad Yousuf, Inzamam-ul-Haq (c), Kamran Akmal (wk),Younis Khan, Imran Nazir, Danish Kaneria, Iftikhar Anjum, Mohammad Hafeez, Umar Gul, Naved-ul-Hasan

And West indies team and 11 was looking this in this match: Brian Lara (c), Dwayne Bravo, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Corey Collymore,Chris Gayle, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Dwayne Smith, Marlon Samuels, Daren Powell, Jerome Taylor, Denesh Ramdin (wk)

West indies started very well and was able to score 241 runs in full allotted 50 over’s at the loss of 9 wickets and will contributions of M Samuels who made 63 runs in 70 balls with 5 4’s and 3 sixes at the strike rate of 90 runs in 100 balls, R Sarwan made 49 runs in 65 balls with 9 4’s and strike rate of 75 runs in 100 balls and Skipper Brian lara made 37 runs in 56 balls with 3 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 66 runs in 100 balls.

Pakistan was needed to score 242 runs in allotted 50 over’s to win this 1si ODI match of 2007 world cup.

Pakistan started poorly and was losing wickets at regular intervals and were finally bowled out for only 187 runs in 47.2 over’s and with contributions of S Malik who made 62 runs in 54 balls with 6 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 115 runs in 100 balls.

West Indies won the match by 54 runs and D Smith was the Man of the match.

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