Australian Cricket Team Squad for World Cup 2011 and India Cricket Team Squad for ICC World Cup 2011

Australian cricket team squad for World Cup 2011

In 2011 ICC World Cup, Australia is the defending champions and they are so looking to claim it again. The performance of Australian cricket team experienced jolts as they have lost many of their talented players due to injuries. For this very reason, Australian cricket team hasn’t won any tournament in the past four years. However due to the avid determination, the Australian cricket team recovered to beat India in India and England in England. Due to their staunch players, Australian cricket team is considered the unpredictable predator for the opponents. The 2011 ICC World Cup squad of Australian cricket team is:

1)      Ricky Ponting (Captain)

2)      Michael Clarke (VC)

3)      Doug Bollinger

4)      Brad Haddin (wkt)

5)      John Hastings

6)      Nathan Hauritz

7)      David Hussey

8)      Mike Hussey

9)      Mitchell Johnson

10)   Brett Lee

11)   Time Paine (wkt)

12)   Steve Smith

13)   Shaun Tait

14)   Shane Watson

15)   Cameron White

India cricket team squad for ICC World Cup 2011  

The favorites, the former World Champions and host India is going to enter the ICC World Cup 2011 as a true favorite with absolutely fantastic and explosive talent. The recent performance of Indian cricket team against Australia and New Zealand has alarmed the cricket world. The mighty talents like Dhoni, Sehwag, Yuvrag, Raina and Ghambir have strengthened the batting line up for India. On top of it, the world will see the cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar for the last time in this World Cup. The high morale of Indian players and the advantage of home ground for finale of ICC World Cup 2011 will surely lift their motives to win the 2011 ICC World Cup. The final Indian cricket team squad for ICC World Cup 2011 is:

1)      Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Captain/WK)

2)      Virender Sehwag

3)      Sachin Tendulkar

4)      Gautam Gambhir

5)      Virat Kohli

6)      Yuvraj Singh

7)      Sureh Raina

8)      Harbhajan Singh

9)      Zaheer Khan

10)   Munaf Patel

11)   Praveen Kumar

12)   Yusuf Pathan

13)   Piyush Chawala

14)   R Ashwin

15)   Ashish Nehra

Dream Cricket Team of Australia

Great names, great games and great records all of this greatness in compiled in word that is the ‘Aussies.’ When it comes to the game of cricket, Australian cricket team stand tall amongst all cricket nations on account of superior skills and stupendous aptitude towards cricket en masse. From Bradman to Brett Lee there is a long list of illustrious players from Australia. Australia is the only Cricketing nation which has one four World Cups where there times they remained champions in a row as they are unbeaten in Cricket World Cup since 1999. (Aussies have won 1987, 1999, 2003 and 2007 Cricket World Cup tournaments). Keeping in view the brilliance of this team, a Dream team is being chalked out which is as follows:

• Adam Gilchrist (Opening Batsman/Wicketkeeper)
• Mathew Hayden (Opening Batsman)
• Ricky Ponting (Top Order Batsman)
• Donald Bradman (Middle Order Batsman)
• Allan Border (Middle Order Batsman)
• Steve Waugh (Middle Order Batsman)
• Andrew Symonds (All rounder)
• Glen MacGrath (Fast Bowler)
• Denis Lillee (Fast Bowler)
• Keith Miller (Fast bowler)
• Shane Warne (Spin bowler)

Australia has produced some great fast bowlers of all time in Cricket. Many of Australian batsmen are record holders as well. Australian Cricket Team has ruled the world in the decade of 90s.

Top 10 Ten Wicket Takers of the World in Test

The strike rates of the best bowlers of world in Test cricket are all below 35 – evidence of the high standing of the team. The strike rate of less than 35 means that the bowler is very consistent in their game and knows how to play Test well. They made history taking ten wickets in Test numerous times. The leader of the chart is Muttiah Muralitharan,but other bowlers are not to be underestimated. They are also contributing and have shown their skill and talent moving the ball the right way and taking ten wickets in Test more times than other bowlers. They are great and legendary in Test cricket. The list of the leading ten wicket takers in the Test is shown below:

• Muttiah Muralitharan (SL)
• Shane Warne (Aus)
• Richard Hadlee (NZ)
• Anil Kumble (Ind)
• Glenn McGrath (Aus)
• Ian Botham (Eng)
• Wasim Akram (Pak)
• Imran Khan (Pak)
• Sydney Barnes (Eng)
• Kapil Dev (Ind)

Australian Cricket Team – Profile

Profile for Australian team

Australian Cricket team is four time world champions who have won four World Cups and in the process they have created history of winning the World Cup for three times consecutively in 1999, 2003 and 2007. They beat Pakistan in World Cup final of 1999, India in World Cup final of 2003 and beat Sri Lanka in World Cup final of 2007. They have the proven leadership record of Ricky Ponting who has won highest number of test matches under his leadership in world cricket. The bowling department is headed by the leading wicket taker of 2009 Mitchell Johnson, Brett Lee, and Douglas Bollinger who is a promising fast bowler. They have the strong batting line up which includes skipper Rickey Ponting, his colleague Michael Clark, Michael Hussey and Brad Haddin.
Their fielding is considered to be one of the best in the cricketing world led by Ricky Ponting who himself is one of the best fielders in world cricket. The Australian domestic cricket is full of promising cricket players who are currently warming the bench but can provide a punch whenever required. But, they lacked in the spin bowling department where they haven’t got a consistent spinner after retirement of legendary spin bowler Shane Warne. The Australian cricket team has also shown some inconsistency in recent times that needs improvement.  Australian Cricket is considered to be the front runners for winning 2011 World Cup.

Cricket:Great Bowlers Wasim Akram & Brett Lee

Wasim Akram and Brett Lee’s bowling credentials

Wasim Akram and Brett Lee are the best fast bowlers of the many great bowlers in cricket in the world. Former Pakistani cricket captain, Wasim Akram is a master bowler. Wasim started his cricket career in January 1985 at the young age of eighteen. He was the first star fast bowler in the history of world cricket. He is a master of seam bowling and swing bowling.
He is famous for slow delivery as well as his bouncer bowling. He is a left armed medium fast bowler and ever batsman fears his bowling attack. Imran Khan is another great cricketer of Pakistan. He discovered Wasim Akram. Wasim Akram is also famous for his air swing bowling attack. He is able to deliver each ball of the over with its own individual style. He is the first fast bowler to hit the landmark of 500 wickets in a one day international in 1992. He achieved this with his missile attack and is a legend of Pakistani cricket because of his outstanding bowling.
Wasim Akram is also a good batsman and he has managed to achieve a double century in test cricket. He is also known as a specialist of bowling in test cricket matches.

Brett Lee is a great Australian bowler who is famous for his speed in delivering a ball. He owns the highest speed bowling record alongside Shoaib Akhter. Brett Lee is well known for his Yorker delivery.

Comparison between two best bowlers- Akram and Lee

Wasim Akram has been the strength and guiding force of Pakistan’s much-feared bowling line-up ever since his international debut in January 1985 at the age of 18. At his best, Wasim Akram plays like most of us would wish to. He is a complete master of swing and seam. All this comes at high speed from a quick, ball-concealing action, and is backed up by the threat of a dangerous bouncer or deceptive slower delivery. Wasim Akram is rated by many as the best left-arm fast bowler of all time with every time starting off like a kicking horse and his career record certainly bears that out. He was the natural successor to Imran Khan as Pakistan’s leader and captain, and reached the 500-wicket landmark in ODIs in the World Cup. Along with the devastating pace and breathtaking accuracy, his ability to move the ball in the air and off the seam makes him the most lethal bowler of the Pakistan team. And who will forget his exploits during the England’s tour in 1992 and South African tour of 1993, when he along with his pace partner Waqar Younus, defeated the opposition batting line-up with élan.

Although bowling has been his top priority, Wasim has frustrated and destroyed bowling attacks with his occasionally sensational batting. However, some of his test innings has also been very effective. His 123 against Australia at Adelaide was played at a time when Pakistan was facing the prospect of a defeat.

Brett Lee is determined that age and injury shall not weary him. Always positive and flashing a smile, he insists his body “still feels really young”. At first there was the pace, but then came the injury and long layoff. It is a recurring theme in Lee’s career as he has aimed for numbers that would result in license suspensions on any Australian road and always seemed on the verge of striking a body or a wicket. His speed thrills, but after overcoming another serious ankle problem in 2009, there is no guarantee he will be able to continue slamming his foot down. Despite planning a post-cricket career in Bollywood – he already has a hit song with ‘You’re The One For Me’ and is learning Hindi. The Allan Border Medal was another reward, along with the Test Player of the Year prize and the Pura Cup, which he helped seal with 97, his highest first-class score.

Whenever Lee released the throttle and began that smooth acceleration, the spectator swayed with the flow. The leaping, classical delivery has produced a devastating Yorker, a devilish slower ball or a young-Donald out-swinger. Add a fruity vocabulary, a trademark jump for joy, a stylish bat, a streak of sadism when bowling at tail-enders, a pop group (Six And Out), and an endearing link to a job at a gentleman’s outfitters, and you had the 21st century’s first designer cricketer – not to mention a priceless pin-up boy.

Lee’s career hasn’t always been easy. He struggled against accusations of throwing bean balls, stress fractures and other injuries but no doubt Brett Lee shares his world’s fastest bowling records with Shoaib Akhtar and that is why he is known to dread facing him.

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