Comparison of the cricket world cup teams

As most of you know, the Cricket World Cup will start tomorrow. The opening ceremony was yesterday but that is just a formality. It should be quite exciting with a few teams having a good change of taking the title. To make it more interesting Cricinfo have compared the age of all participating teams with another. In addition to that they have also compared the combined experience of each team. By combining these two factors, it gives you quite a good idea how developed each team is. 

Canada have the oldest and youngest players in the tournament: John Davison, who will be 40 years and 286 days on February 19 and Nitish Kumar the youngest - a staggering 16 years and 274 days.

See the average of each team below:
Team - Average Age
Sri Lanka - 29.9
Australia - 29.3
England - 29.0
India - 28.7
Pakistan - 28.7
Ireland - 28.6
South Africa - 28.4
New Zealand - 28.3
Netherlands - 27.6
Canada - 27.6
Kenya - 27.5
West Indies - 27.2
Zimbabwe - 26.6
Bangladesh - 23.8


And which team has the most combined caps? 


 Team - Caps 
 India - 2070 
 Sri Lanka - 1863 
 Pakistan - 1389 
 New Zealand - 1277 
 Australia - 1265 
 West Indies - 1041 
 England - 1016 
 South Africa - 953 
 Bangladesh - 929 
 Zimbabwe - 829 
 Kenya - 822 
 Ireland - 455 
 Netherlands - 309 
 Canada - 225


Sachin Tendulkar is the only player who also played in the 1992 tournament. No wonder they have the most caps.  Murali is also supposed to play in this World Cup. That is why SL have so many caps.


And finally, which team has the most combined caps that was played only in India, Sri Lanka, or Bangladesh. 


Team - Caps 
India - 1141 
Sri Lanka - 856 
Bangladesh - 513 
New Zealand - 265 
Pakistan - 254 
Zimbabwe - 166 
Australia - 160 
England - 156 
West Indies - 147 
South Africa - 114 
Kenya - 74 
Ireland - 18 
Netherlands - 5 
Canada - 0  


See the rankings as of Feb 6:


Team - Rating 
 Australia - 131 
 India - 119 
 Sri Lanka - 119 
 South Africa - 118 
 England - 109 
 Pakistan - 100 
 New Zealand - 91 
 Bangladesh - 66 
 West Indies - 66 
 Ireland - 39 
 Zimbabwe - 37 
 Netherlands - 17 
 Kenya - 0 
 Canada - 0  


Somehow I don't think Australia will pull it off even though they are defending champions. A lot has happened over the past 4 years. I would thus say that India would be my best bet. Home advantage, a lot of experience, and overall they have a well balanced side. 


Source: Cricinfo

Wayne Rooney Bicycle Goal

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They do mention something about you can submit your own video showing your skills, but I didn't really take notice. Their 1st video was a massive hit, with over 2 million hits on YouTube. See it below.

To top if all off, a few Australian rugby players responded to the 1st video with this one. Classic!

Fastest Cricket Player to reach 2000 runs

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Player - Time - Number of Innings

1. Hashim Amla (SA) -  2y 318d - 40
2. Zaheer Abbas (Pak) - 9y 32d - 45
3. KP Pieterson (ENG) - 2y 144d - 45
4. IVA Richardson (WI) - 8y 8d - 48
5. CG Greenidge (WI) - 8y 124d - 49
6. G Kirsten (SA) - 2y 297d - 50
7. DC Boon (Aus) - 3y 129d - 52
8. AH Jones (NZ) - 3y 129d - 52
9. NS Sidhu (India) - 5y 146d - 52
10. SC Ganguly (India) - 6y 86d - 52

See the complete list here

South African cricket players in IPl2011

Not sure if you followed the auction for the Indian Premier League that was held this past weekend. Well if you didn’t, here is a summary of all the South African Players that were bought. It’s quite a lot of money considering it’s only for 2 seasons of cricket, where each season is only a couple of weeks long!

Player Name	IPL Team	Cost (USD)
Dale Steyn	Deccan Chargers	$1,200,000.00
AB de Villiers	Royal Challengers Bangalore	$1,100,000.00
Jacques Kallis	Kolkata Knight Riders	$1,100,000.00
Johan Botha	Rajasthan Royals	$950,000.00
Albie Morkel (retained)	Chennai Super Kings	$500,000.00
Graeme Smith	Pune Warriors	$500,000.00
Morne Morkel	Delhi Daredevils	$475,000.00
JP Duminy	Deccan Chargers	$300,000.00
Davy Jacobs	Mumbai Indians	$190,000.00
Wayne Parnell	Pune Warriors	$160,000.00
Charl Langeveldt	Royal Challengers Bangalore	$140,000.00
Faf du Plessis	Chennai Super Kings	$120,000.00
Alfonso Thomas	Pune Warriors	$100,000.00
Colin Ingram	Delhi Daredevils	$100,000.00
Rusty Theron	Deccan Chargers	$85,000.00
Roelof van der Merwe	Delhi Daredevils	$50,000.00
Johan van der Wath	Royal Challengers Bangalore	$50,000.00
Rilee Rossouw	Royal Challengers Bangalore	$20,000.00
Jonathan Vandiar	Royal Challengers Bangalore	$20,000.00
Robert Frylinck	Delhi Daredevils	$20,000.00

If you want to see the complete list of players click here

If you want to read the rules of the auction, click here

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Anyway, check how the england team do the sprinkler dance.

Don't know whats up with they guy wearing the bikini....

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