It’s a great race to score runs between Sachin, Sehwag and Yuvraj! Let’s see who wins this race!! They’ve already totaled more than 1000 runs (1062 to be exact) in this world cup. And the next team is Sri Lanka, with their top 3 having scored 910. Sure, they can catch up by the next match. But with Gautam Gambhir and Virat Kohli on their heels – it is the best set of 5 batsmen any country has in this world cup!

And the fact that Sachin has so far hit 8 sixes, which makes him the 3rd highest 6 hitter in this world cup, and you know where he’s heading. And Yuvraj has hit only 3 sixes! So now we know why Tendulkar has been so prolific, now that the rebel has come home.

You can look forward to India lifting the trophy once again. And you can say, “Jab Jab prithvi par kisi cricket team ney aatank failaya hai, tab tab ek Hindustani Veer Yodha Team ney janm liya hai!”

Only twice have a team won the World cup more than once in succession. And each of those times, they needed an Indian Team to stop them!

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Vineet’s ODI Team Rankings 2010 (all teams) are now out after a long wait. With this, all ODI rankings are done. I hope you’ve enjoyed going through these. You can check out previous year’s rankings here (ODI Team Rankings 2009)

India had a phenomenal year and they won matches without their main batsmen at times. They rose to No. 1 in ranking. They won 12 out of 16 matches they played. South Africa came at No. 2 followed by West Indies, England and Australia.

Rank
Team 2010

*Minnows are ranked only to show dark horse potential, since their ranking is based mostly on their performance with minnow oppositions.

Some interesting Team Stats for the Year 2010

*These rankings are based on Teams who’ve played 5 matches or more. These rankings are prepared solely by myself based on owned algorithms. The Team rankings are based on Player performances alone. These have no relation with ICC or any other rankings calculated elsewhere in the world.

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T20 resumed its evolution with the new rule SuperOver. Ideally the rule says that each team picks 3 batsmen and one bowler. And each team gets to bat for one over bowled by the opposing team’s bowler. And they have 2 wickets or 6 balls till the end of their innings. If they are tied at the end of SuperOvers, then the team losing lesser wickets wins. If that is same then the team hitting more 6s wins. And even if that is same, then the team hitting more 4s wins!! (Phew)

Today’s Match:
West Indies-New Zealand

New Zealand: 155/7
(Taylor 63, Styris 21, Gayle 2 for 16)
West Indies: 155/8
(Chris Gayle 67, Marshall 28, Vettori 3 for 16, Patel 2 for 34)

So today when New Zealand and West Indies tied off at 155. They chose the following teams to win them the match.

West Indies:
Batsmen: Gayle, Marhsall, Chanderpaul
Bowler: Benn

New Zealand:
Batsmen: Oram, McCullum, Taylor
Bowler: Daniel Vettori (captain)

Now West Indies batted First:

Ball 1: Chris Gayle 6 runs (6/0)
Ball 2: Chris Gayle runs but Marhsall is run out. 1 run (7/1)
Ball 3: Chris Gayle 6 runs (13/1)
Ball 4: Chris Gayle 6 runs (19/1)
Ball 5: Chris Gayle 4 runs (23/1)
Ball 6: Chris Gayle 2 runs (25/1)

Ball 1: Oram 6 runs (6/0)
Ball 2: Oram 2 runs (8/0)
Ball 3: Oram Caught Out (8/1)
Ball 4: Taylor 6 runs + One run for No Ball (15/1)
Ball 4: Taylor Bowled 0 runs (15/2)

So West Indies won and Chris Gayle was the man of the match

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