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2003 ICC Cricket World Cup Final The Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg Event 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup Australia India 359/2 234 50 overs 39.2 overs Australia won by 125 runs Date 23 March 2003 Venue Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg Player of the match Ricky Ponting (Aus) Umpires Steve Bucknor (WI) and David Shepherd (Eng) Attendance 34,000 [a] ← 1999 2007 → Cricket final The 2003 Cricket ...
Fourteen teams played in the 2003 World Cup, the largest number of teams to play in a Cricket World Cup at the time. The 10 Test playing nations automatically qualified for the tournament including the recently appointed member Bangladesh, while Kenya also qualified automatically due to their full One Day International status.
The ICC Men's Cricket World Cup is the quadrennial international championship of One Day International cricket. [3] The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), every four years, with preliminary qualification rounds leading up to a finals tournament.
He returned for the Perth Test, after claiming a five wicket haul in a Pura Cup match against Queensland for New South Wales. He took thirteen wickets at 41.23 in three matches, compared to Bichel's ten at 35.1. [32] After the 2003 Cricket World Cup, Lee took 17 wickets at 28.88 in four Tests against the West Indies. It was the first series in ...
As captain, he led Indian national team to win the 2002 ICC Champions Trophy and reach the final of the 2003 Cricket World Cup, the 2000 ICC Champions Trophy and the 2004 Asia Cup. [ 5 ] Ganguly scored 11363 runs in his ODI career which stands at ninth position in the world for most runs scored in ODI matches. [ 6 ]
Lord's has hosted the final five times. The inaugural ICC Cricket World Cup final was held on 21 June 1975 at Lord's, contested by Australia and the West Indies.A man of the match performance, [11] including a century, from West Indian captain Clive Lloyd, coming in to bat at number five with his team at 50/3, [12] formed the basis of a 149-run fourth-wicket partnership with Rohan Kanhai. [13]
He was involved in further controversy during 2003 World Cup matches. In the opening match against Australia , Waqar was removed from the attack after bowling a beamer at Andrew Symonds , becoming the first bowler to be disciplined in such a way during an international match. [ 44 ]
He is the only batsman in World Cup ODI history to score hundreds in both a semi final and a final of the tournament. He achieved this feat, by scoring a century in 2007 Cricket World Cup semi final against New Zealand, and a century in 2011 Cricket World Cup final against India. He was named in the 'Team of the Tournament' by ESPNcricinfo for ...