India vs Pakistan World Cup Match Today Live Scoreboard

Indian and Pakistan cricket teams will play their first match for the ICC cricket world cup today. First match of the world cup against an old rival is gonna be high pressure match for both the teams. For the cricket fans all over the world this could be the most exciting match of the world cup at the group stage and overall most exciting match of the tournament second to the finals.

Both the teams have a long history of matches and series that were to heated and high pressure games, however when if comes to world cup Indian cricket team has a very consistence record against the neighbors. So far both teams have played 5 matches in the world cup history and India have won all of them. Last world cup match played between the two teams was the semi final match of 2011 world cup at PCA stadium Mohali. India won that match and they defeated Sri Lanka in the finals later.

However this time its not going to be an easy task for India, most the team members and young and inexperienced. They might not be able to handle the pressure of playing at the high level matches of the world cup. Most of the fans and the critics have already given upon the hopes of India defending the world cup title. First couple of games will be sufficient to decide the fate of Indian cricket team for the world cup. You can bookmark this page for live score and updates of the world cup - http://icccricket.blogspot.com/2011/03/live-scoreboard-world-cup-matches-today.html

Match will start in next few minutes and you can see the live score board of the match and other updates at the top.

In the team time, please do tweet #ICCCricket or comment here at this blog. Looking forward to your responses.

ICC World Cup Match Live Scoreboard Day 1 Match 2

Match Update: 1:17 pm IST: England innings start now with Moeen Ali and Ian Bell as openers. They need to chase a huge score of 342 (343 to win) and a lot will depend upon these two batsmen how close England team can reach to the target or even chase it. So fat the plus point for England were a five for and hat-trick by Steven Finn. But his performance was not that good to restrict the explosive Aussie batting line.  You can watch the live score of the match at the top of this blog. Enjoy!


The opening match for the ICC world cup 2015  just being played between Sri Lanka and New Zealand just few hours back and it features two teams that are perfect for a nice encounter. A perfect opening match for the world cup, fill with lots of excitement. With the match the tournament is open and the second match to be played today is between Australia and England. Match starts in just few moments from now. Both these teams already have enough preparation in the Carlton Mid Tri ODI series, that included India as the third team. Players of both the team are in fine touch and we hope to see both the team through the knock out stage of cricket world cup 2015.

Stay tuned here and we'll publish the toss and score updates from this match.

Match Update: 10:57 am IST: The opening match is almost near a finish and New Zealand is going to win the match against Sri Laka. As far as the second match of the world cup in concerned  I think this is going to be more exciting match as compared to the earlier one. Both Australian and England have recently played in the final of the ODI tri series and team are in good form.

Today morning England won the toss and elected to field. Australia has made  a slow but a solid start of the innings and have scored 152 runs in 26 over for the loss of 3 wickets. Warner, Watson and Smith lost their wickets early but opener Finch and Baily have done a good job by building the innings. Finch in on his way to score first century of ICC world cup 2015. With Maxwell and Marsh in the line up Australia can think of posting a 300+ target for England team.

England team bowlers on the other hand are looking in good rhythm and a quick wickets means they are in good business for the first match of the world cup against they host. Keep a close eye on the score board above.

Bangladesh Cricket Team has something to prove this World Cup

Bangladesh cricket team has developed a lot, the team performance has improved but they are yet to prove something to the fans and the world. This nation has yet to win any major ICC event or event made it to final or semi finals. It was only in the 2007 world cup that they defeated India in group stage to reach super eights and then defeat South Africa.

However after that the team is still to show the cricketing skills the team is capable off.  Lets take a look at the Bangladesh cricket team for the world cup. It seems they have a quiet good number of ODI specialists in the team. Selectors seems to have done a nice job by picking a balanced team for the 2015 world cup that stars in less than 10 days from today.

Here is the list of the Bangladesh squad for the world cup:

1. Mashrafe Mortaza
2. Al-Amin Hossain
3. Anamul Haque
4. Arafat Sunny
5. Mahmudullah
6. Mominul Haque
7. Mushfiqur Rahim
8. Nasir Hossain
9. Rubel Hossain
10. Sabbir Rahman
11. Shakib Al Hasan
12. Soumya Sarkar
13. Taijul Islam
14. Tamim Iqbal
15. Taskin Ahmed 

Bangladesh cricket team is one of the team that consists of young players in the squad. Only one player (Mashrafe Mortaza ) is above 30 year and his age is also 31 years. So its quiet a young team.

Most of the teams performance and success in world cup will depend upon the performance of players like Shakib Al Hasan who is one of the most experienced player who also possess experience playing in various T20 franchise and that experience might help him at the world cup stage. Batting will depend mainly on the openers and top order which inlcudes Tamim Iqbal and Mushfiqur Rehman. However the dilemma is that no Bangladesh batsmen have scored a century at world cup so far.

Our best wishes to the Bangladesh cricket team !

Meet the Australian Team for the ICC World Cup 2015

This is second part of the series Meet the world cup teams. In this post we are going to take a look at the team of the hosting nation Australia. Australia is the co host with New Zealand and the team looks in the fine touch to lift the world cup title for the record fifth time. We'll get to see this as the tournament progresses. However lets take a look at the Australian 15 men squad for the world cup.

The team is lead by Michael Clark and George Bailey will be his deputy. The complete team members lists is as follows:

1. Michael Clarke
2. George Bailey
3. Pat Cummins
4. Xavier Doherty
5. James Faulkner
6. Aaron Finch
7. Brad Haddin
8. Josh Hazlewood
9. Mitchell Johnson
10. Mitchell Marsh
11. Glenn Maxwell
12. Steven Smith
13. Mitchell Starc
14. David Warner
15. Shane Watson

The Australian team didn't have a very good 2014 as per the standards of the team that have won 3 world cup tournaments successfully. But it seems that they have got the midas touch back again. They beat India 3-0 in test and then are playing brilliantly in the currently Triangular series that also features England. The bowling is strong with the presence of  Mitchell Johnson, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Xavier Doherty and Pat Cummins. The batting line up is quiet balanced with David Warner, George Bailey, Michael Clarke, James Faulkner and  Aaron Finch. The beat part of this team is presence on all rounders and big hitter that can turn the match at any moment. Players like Maxwell are already popular among fans from not only Australia but other nations as well.

World Cup Matches Schedule for Australian Cricket Team: Australia will play their first match  on the day one of the world cup and I hope they will play on the last day of the world cup as well. It would be an disappointment if the team doesn't play in the finals with the current combination and the form of the players.

Here is the match schedule for Australian team:

•  Australia v England - Sat Feb 14 at Melbourne Cricket Ground
• Australia v Bangladesh - Sat Feb 21 at Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba, Brisbane
• New Zealand v Australia - Sat Feb 28 at Eden Park, Auckland
• Australia v Afghanistan - Wed Mar 4  at Western Australia Cricket Association Ground, Perth
• Australia v Sri Lanka - Sun Mar 8 at Sydney Cricket Ground
• Australia v Scotland - Sat Mar 14 at Bellerive Oval, Hobart

To know the full list of world cup matches please check this post. 

ICC World Cup Opening Match Today - Sri Lanka vs New Zealand

Match update: 12:52 pm IST: The opening match of the ICC Cricket world cup 2015 is won by the hosts New Zealand, thanks to some good hitting by man of the match - Corey Anderson. Its always good to start a tournament like world cup winning the first match.  Here is the finals scorebaod (Courtsey - Espncricinfo)

	New Zealand innings (50 overs maximum)		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	MJ Guptill	c †Sangakkara b Lakmal	49	94	62	5	0	79.03
	BB McCullum*	c Mendis b Herath	65	68	49	10	1	132.65
	KS Williamson	c Karunaratne b Mendis	57	70	65	5	1	87.69
	LRPL Taylor	st †Sangakkara b Mendis	14	49	28	0	0	50.00
	GD Elliott	c Thirimanne b Lakmal	29	53	34	2	0	85.29
	CJ Anderson	c Lakmal b Kulasekara	75	77	46	8	2	163.04
	L Ronchi†	not out	29	29	19	4	0	152.63
	Extras	(lb 2, w 8, nb 3)	13
	Total	(6 wickets; 50 overs)	331	(6.62 runs per over)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ	0s	4s	6s
	KMDN Kulasekara	8	0	78	1	9.75	16	9	2	(3w)
	SL Malinga	10	0	84	0	8.40	19	8	1	(3nb, 3w)
	AD Mathews	6	0	28	0	4.66	20	4	0
	HMRKB Herath	9	0	37	1	4.11	30	3	0	(1w)
	TM Dilshan	5	0	35	0	7.00	11	2	1	(1w)
	RAS Lakmal	10	0	62	2	6.20	28	8	0
	BMAJ Mendis	2	0	5	2	2.50	7	0	0

	Sri Lanka innings (target: 332 runs from 50 overs)		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	HDRL Thirimanne	b Boult	65	90	60	8	0	108.33
	TM Dilshan	c & b Vettori	24	50	41	2	0	58.53
	KC Sangakkara†	lbw b Boult	39	48	38	5	0	102.63
	DPMD Jayawardene	c †Ronchi b Vettori	0	3	4	0	0	0.00
	FDM Karunaratne	b Milne	14	32	21	0	0	66.66
	AD Mathews*	c Vettori b Southee	46	80	52	5	0	88.46
	BMAJ Mendis	c †Ronchi b Milne	4	5	4	1	0	100.00
	KMDN Kulasekara	c Elliott b Anderson	10	32	21	1	0	47.61
	HMRKB Herath	c Milne b Anderson	13	41	19	2	0	68.42
	SL Malinga	c †Ronchi b Southee	0	4	1	0	0	0.00
	RAS Lakmal	not out	7	21	17	0	0	41.17
	Extras	(w 10, nb 1)	11
	Total	(all out; 46.1 overs)	233	(5.04 runs per over)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ	0s	4s	6s
	TG Southee	10	1	43	2	4.30	37	5	0	(2w)
	TA Boult	10	0	64	2	6.40	27	9	0
	AF Milne	10	0	56	2	5.60	30	6	0	(1nb, 3w)
	DL Vettori	10	0	34	2	3.40	33	1	0	(2w)
	GD Elliott	2	0	11	0	5.50	4	1	0
	KS Williamson	1	0	7	0	7.00	0	0	0
	CJ Anderson	3.1	0	18	2	5.68	10	2	0	(3w)

Match update 10:53 pm IST: Sri Lankan team didn't have the much expected start of the match and the host New Zealand are looking to win the opening match of the world cup in next 45 minutes. There are 10 over left and Sri Lanka required more than 100 runs to win this match with only 3 wickets left. The Sri Lankan bowlers did a poor job and conceded more than 300 runs. Here is the details of the New Zealand innings.

	New Zealand innings (50 overs maximum)		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	MJ Guptill	c †Sangakkara b Lakmal	49	62	5	0	79.03
	BB McCullum*	c Mendis b Herath	65	49	10	1	132.65
	KS Williamson	c Karunaratne b Mendis	57	65	5	1	87.69
	LRPL Taylor	st †Sangakkara b Mendis	14	28	0	0	50.00
	GD Elliott	c Thirimanne b Lakmal	29	34	2	0	85.29
	CJ Anderson	c Lakmal b Kulasekara	75	46	8	2	163.04
	L Ronchi†	not out	29	19	4	0	152.63
	Extras	(lb 2, w 8, nb 3)	13
	Total	(6 wickets; 50 overs)	331	(6.62 runs per over)

Hagley Oval cricket stadium at Christchurch  will host the opening match of the ICC cricket world cup 2015 on Feb 14 Indian time and Feb 13 New Zealand time. Match will be played between Sri Lanka and New Zealand. For New Zealand its a home conditions advantage, however the Sri Lankan team has already spent some good time in New Zealand playing a test series so the team already has accumulated to the conditions here. You can watch the live socre of the match at the live scorebaord widget above. And in case you need a detailed ball by ball analysis please visit this post.

As far as world cup performance in concerned New Zealand has so far just made it once to semi finals as their best performance. Sri Lanka on the other hand has won the world cup once and they have featured in the final of last three ICC world cup tournaments. Thus the match is goind to be  a super entertainer.

Live Scoreboard world cup matches today

ICC cricket world cup 2015 matches live scoreboard, match preview and post match analysis can be found at this page. The live scoreboard of the current match and results of previous match are shown at the live cricket score board above. We at this blog will keep updating this pages will our comments, preview and analysis of the world cup matches.

Since the 15 member final squad for all the teams has not been disclosed yet. This is not the right time for us to start discussing the matches. However you can bookmark this page for access in the month of Feb when the world cup will begin. Take a look at the world cup fixtures here. Keep visiting!

Meet the Afghanistan Team for the ICC World Cup 2015

Afghanistan cricket board has announced the 15 member squad for the upcoming cricket world cup. With around one and half month left the the tournament this is the right move for the board to declare the team and let them focus on the preparations. Let us discuss the team players and their recent form, achievements in detail here. The team list is as follows:

1. Mohammad Nabi Eisakhail 
2. Nawroz Mangal
3. Afasr Khan Zazai 
4. Mohamma Javed Ahmadi  
5. Mirwais Ashraf 
6. Gulbadin Naib 
7. Mohammad Ashghar Stanizai
8. Samiullah Shinwari 
9. Najibullah Zadran 
10. Usman Ghani
11. Nasir Jamal 
12. Hamid Hassan 
13. Shapoor Zadran 
14. Dawlat Zadran 
15. Aftab Alam

Mohammad Nabi and Nawroz Mangal the team captain and vice captains respectively. Both these players are bowl right arm off-break and are strong pillars of the batting line.  Nawroz Mangal has captained the Afghanistan team in the past and his experience will be crucial and helpful both for the team and to the new captain Nabi as well.  Afasr Khan Zazai is the only wicket keeper in the squad and in case of any injuries any batsmen is most likely to keep the wickets for Afghanistan team. The fifteen member squad included a couple of all rounders and batsmen but I guess the selectors should have picket a few more fast bowlers in the 15 members squad. There are only 4 fast bowlers in the team. One or two additional fast bowlers might have given the coach and the captain some more choices to pick the bowlers.

Now when the team is already announced we wish all the best to the Afghanistan cricket team. The team is already in Australia for preparations.

World Cup Match Schedule for Afghanistan cricket team: Here is the details of the matches the Afghanistan cricket team will play in the word cup in the group stage:

• 18-Feb-2015: Afghanistan v Bangladesh at 14:30 Australian Standard time at Manuka Oval, Canberra
• 22-Feb-2015: Afghanistan v Sri Lanka at 11 am Australian Standard time at University Oval, Dunedin
• 26-Feb-2015: Afghanistan v Scotland at 11am Australian Standard Time at University Oval, Dunedin
• 4-Mar-2015: Afghanistan v Australia at 14:30 Australian Standard Time at Western Australia Cricket Association Ground, Perth
• 8-Mar-2015: Afghanistan v New Zealand at 14:30 Australian Standard Time at McLean Park, Napier
• 13-Mar-2014: Afghanistan v England at  14:30 Australian Standard Time at Sydney Cricket Ground

The complete world cup match schedule can be seen here - http://icccricket.blogspot.com/2014/07/2015-cricket-world-cup-match-schedule.html

If the Afghan cricket team plays well and win a couple of matches in the group stage, they have the chances to qualify for the knock out rounds. But this first time world cup appearance is a great opportunity to the team to learn and grow further in the world of cricket. We once again wish the very best to the Afghanistan cricket team and hope this would be the first of many ICC world cup appearances for them.