India vs BanglaDesh

While Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Friday insisted his team will go into Saturday’s World Cup opener against Bangladesh here at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium without the baggage of their humiliating loss in 2007, his Bangladeshi counterpart Shakib Al Hasan sounded confident of his squad’s show in the match.

The high-profile Indians suffered a five-wicket defeat at the hands of Bangladesh in their first match of the previous edition in the Caribbean, leading to the team’s first-round exit.

But Dhoni, preparing for the day-night clash, said the loss four years ago had not even crossed his mind in the past few years.

“Frankly, I have never thought about it, but we obviously don’t want a repeat,” said Dhoni, who was part of the 2007 squad which was led by Rahul Dravid and coached by Australian Greg Chappell.

Dhoni claimed that his team was in a better frame of mind going into the tournament, and insisted there was no additional pressure on the boys playing in the sub-continent.

“Being a co-host will always bring a lot of expectations,” the wicketkeeper-batsman stated. “But we do not get bogged down by expectations.

“The important thing is to do the process right. We always look to put more emphasis on the process, rather than on winning, and this is what has made us a successful team.” India are the number one Test team in the International Cricket Council’s official rankings, and are placed second behind Australia in one-day cricket.

India have won 20 of their 22 one-day matches against the Tigers, but Dhoni refused to take another victory for granted.

“Bangladesh is a good side with three very good left-arm spinners,” he remarked. “They rely a lot on spinners, especially in the sub-continent where slow bowlers get a lot of help.”India go into the Cup opener on the back of two convincing morale-boosting wins over Australia and New Zealand in practice matches this week.

“The tournament already started for us with those practice matches. We have picked up the intensity and now look forward to our next game,” he said.

“Like any other team, we want to begin our campaign on a winning note.” The Indians rely mainly on their powerful batting, led by world record holder Sachin Tendulkar, to pile up a big total Match starts at 1:30pm and bat the other side out of a match.

Emgland vs Pakistan

Last warm up match of the world cup 2011 will be between Pakistan and England.Both team are strong and favorite for the world cup.Here is the is history of all matches between Pakistan and England.
Both team will try to win this match to keep their moral high in world cup.

All captain in world cup

All captains in worldcup team are ready to start a fight for a worldcup.Here is the special group photo of the all teams captains.

India vs Newzeland cricket History

has a 55.42% win record against the Newzealand in ODI Cricket. However, that does not give the accurate current picture. In the initial period, through the 1970s and 1980s, New Zealand had an edge to begin with. However, in the last few years, India have definitely has the much record.
Newzealand won many series in the 70's and 80's but this time india is more strong than the Newzealand.

In the last ODI series between the two, India blanked out New Zealand 5-0. That was only a couple of months ago. Barring one match, the 4th ODI, where the tourists batting first scored 315 for 7, the rest were pretty one sided affairs. So the Men in Blue will definitely take the field today as firm favourites. It will need a very good showing from the Kiwis to upstage their much fancied opponents who are being seen as the favourites to win the World Cup crown this time.

Afridi Interview before First warm up match

Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi on Monday hinted at playing an extra spinner in the team during the World Cup starting on Saturday.

The experienced all-rounder said Pakistan had several spin options and they were prepared to unleash them on turning tracks of the subcontinent.

“The playing conditions here would be quite different to what we encountered during our [recent] tour of New Zealand,” Afridi said.

Pakistan will play two warm-ups here before beginning their campaign in group ‘A’ against Kenya in Hambantota, Sri Lanka on Feb 23.

“Here we can explore the idea of playing an extra specialist spinner,” he added.

Pakistan have two specialist spinners — Saeed Ajmal and Abdur Rehman — in their 15-man squad. Afridi and all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez also add variety to their spin attack.

Afridi has also played down fears that Pakistan will be going into the World Cup with a depleted pace attack saying that his fast bowlers have the guts to shine in the mega event.

“I don’t think that there is any cause for concern,” Afridi said. “Our team is shaping up well and the boys are all highly motivated to give their best in the World Cup,” he stressed.

Pakistan will go into the World Cup after a moraleboosting ODI series triumph in New Zealand earlier this month. Despite the good results, Pakistan are not counted among the top five title contenders because of their depleted pace battery.

Pakistan vs BanglaDesh All Records

Pakistan and Bangladesh played very matches in one day international.
The summry of all results of one day international and in World Cup is here.

Pakistan Cricket Team Squad In New Kit

All Pakistan team players in new kit looking awsome.I think this kit is the most beautiful kit of all worldcup.
All players are looking Champions in this kit.
We hope and we pray that they will win the worldcup.