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Cricket World Cup Celebrated for the first time in England

Sudev Haldar
1 year ago

T20 World Cup and India scored a hat-trick of defeat. Cricket World Cup Celebrated for the first time in England. That too not once, but twice. Under the captaincy of Mahi with Midas Touch. For the common cricket lover, this thing was beyond imagination. But it happened. MS Dhoni, under whose captaincy India won the T20 World Cup, also started making a loss record under his captaincy. Now when did this happen and when the Indian team was getting embarrassed like this, then who was it, who was proudly expanding his chest? The story of the same World Cup today in World Cup Tales.

T20 World Cup brought miracle for England


Now look at India’s defeat from any angle, but for England, this T20 World Cup was nothing short of a miracle. The reason, in those days, the England team was not giving as much preference to white ball cricket as to red ball cricket. But Collingwood’s team proved all the predictions wrong and not only became the champion. Rather, this victory also proved to be the turning point for England cricket.

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England did not win a single match in the group stage


By the way, the start of T20 World Cup 2010 for England was very bad. They lost to West Indies in the group stage and their match against Ireland was washed out by rain. England’s team reached the Super-8 somehow on the basis of run rate. But after coming here, his metamorphosis took place. The British defeated Pakistan, South Africa and New Zealand in the Super-8. And then after destroying the challenge of Sri Lanka, they came to the semi-finals.

Australia was also desperate to do something


Like England, Australia was also desperate to do something this time. Kangaroo had been out in the first round in the last two World Cups. The team which has won the ODI World Cup 4 times, was now desperate to win its first T20 World Cup. Australia defeated India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in the journey to make this dream come true. The same did not allow the journey of West Indies to progress beyond Super-8.

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Keyswater and Peterson were the heroes of victory

In this way, there were now two such teams in the final, between which the world’s first international cricket match was played in 1877. However, in this title match, England’s team was heavy. He first stopped Australia on the score of 147. And then won the match with 3 overs remaining. The heroes of England’s victory were Craig Keeswater and Kevin Pietersen. KP ie Kevin Pietersen, who left South Africa and joined England, was also selected as the Player of the Tournament. Australia returned empty handed in the third consecutive T20 World Cup. Rest is history.

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