২০১১ ক্রিকেট বিশ্বকাপ গ্রুপ এ

বাজান এর গ্রুপ এ ২০১১ ক্রিকেট বিশ্বকাপ থেকে সংঘটিত ২০ ফেব্রুয়ারি থেকে ২০ মার্চ ২০১১। গ্রুপ সর্বক্ষমতার অধিকারী গঠিত শ্রীলঙ্কা, এবং তাদের সঙ্গে বরাবর, পাকিস্তান, কানাডা, কেনিয়া, নিউজিল্যান্ড, অস্ট্রেলিয়া এবং জিম্বাবুয়ে। টুর্নামেন্টের এই পর্যায়ে একটি সম্পূর্ণ হিসাবে অভিনয় ছিল রাউন্ড-রবিন সব সাত দল, শীর্ষ চার দল পৌছায় সঙ্গে মাঝে কোয়ার্টার ফাইনাল
The first match of Group A saw Kenya taking on the New Zealanders. Kenya won the toss and elected to bat first on a pitch which seemed to have a lot of runs. However, the New Zealanders started very well, restricting the Kenyans for runs throughout the first 6 overs. The pressure paid off as Tim Southee trapped Alex Obanda in front with the score at 16 after 7 overs. Fellow opener Seren Waters and Collins Obuya tried to rebuild but Hamish Bennett came into the attack and got Waters lbw to make the score 40/2. Bennett then ripped through the Kenyan batting and got 3 more wickets in double-quick time to reduce the Kenyans to 49/5. The shattered Kenyans then folded, with only Rakep Patel offering resistance with 16 not out as Southee and Jacob Oram finished off the tail to get Kenya all out for 69 in 23.5 overs.
The New Zealand openers started off quickly in their small chase, with Martin Guptill doing most of the early scoring. Brendon McCullum was bowled off a free hit but got into his stride and finished off the game with two successive boundaries, as New Zealand reached their target in just eight overs without losing any wicket, to complete a ten-wicket win.
Sri Lanka, one of the co-hosts started off their tournament against minnows Canada. The Sri Lankans won the toss and elected to bat first. Canada bowled well in the early overs, but did not get a wicket, as openers Upul Tharanga and Tillakaratne Dilshan reached 50 runs. When the first wicket did fall, it was a run-out when the batsmen had a mix-up with the score at 63, and Tharanga was dismissed. Dilshan got to his half-century, but fell trying to go for a big hit. The Canadians restricted Sri Lanka to 88/2 with over 19 overs bowled; but the two experienced Sri Lankan batsmen, captain Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene came together and got a partnership of 50. Both batsmen got the run rate to over 6 and both seemed to be coasting to their centuries, until Sangakkara on 92 gave a simple return catch to John Davison with the score at 267/2. Jayawardene reached his century but fell immediately afterwards. More wickets fell and the game got hot-tempered, with a confrontation between Angelo Mathews and Harvir Baidwan and Sri Lanka finished with 332/7.
The Canadian chase went nowhere, with Thisara Perera and Nuwan Kulasekara getting three wickets quickly. Captain Ashish Bagai tried to lead a recovery, but once Perera took his wicket to reduce Canada to 53/5, all doubts about the result finished. Big-hitter Rizwan Cheema took 37, including two huge sixes off spinner Muttiah Muralitharan, but the latter ultimately got his wicket as Canada fell to 122 all out.
Three-time defending champions Australia opened their tournament against Zimbabwe. Australia won the toss and elected to bat; but it was the Zimbabwean spinners who dominated the early stages despite not getting a wicket; as Australia struggled to 32/0 after 13 overs. The 14th over was hit for 17 runs as the score quickly reached 50, but soon after, Prosper Utseya got Brad Haddin lbw, which was given out of referral. Shane Watson then attacked aggressively as he added 79 with captain Ricky Ponting until Watson was out lbw off Graeme Cremer in similar fashion to Haddin's. Ponting was soon run out, but Michael Clarke and Cameron White took the score past 200 until White was bowled. Clarke reached a half-century, and quick cameos by David Hussey and Steve Smith took Australia to 262/6.
The Zimbabwean reply was disappointing, as the Australian pace trio of Brett Lee, Shaun Tait and Mitchell Johnson reduced Zimbabwe to 44/4. The Zimabweans had some small partnerships going; but that was little resistance as they were all out of 171, with Johnson getting 4 wickets.
Australian captain Ricky Ponting was handed down a Level 1 charge by the ICC, after he damaged a television set in the dressing room following his run-out.
Pakistan, who were on a poor run of form before this World Cup faced off against Kenya. Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi won the toss and elected to bat first but it was the Kenyan bowlers who struck early, getting opens Mohammad Hafeez and Ahmed Shehzad out early on, leaving Pakistan at 12/2 at the end of 7 overs. Kamran Akmal and Younis Khan then began a rebuilding partnership of 98, until Kamran fell shortly after reaching his half-century. Younis also reached a half-century and fell immediately, before Misbah-ul-Haq and Umar Akmal hit a rapid 118-run partnership, with the latter especially being severe on the bowlers in his 71 off 52 balls. Both men fell towards the end of the innings as Pakistan reached 317/7, helped quite substantially by the Kenyan bowling which conceded 46 extras.
Kenya started off solidly in their big chase, with openers Morris Ouma and Seren Waters adding 37 for the first wicket until a direct hit from Umar Akmal had the latter run out. The Kenyans fought during the first half of their innings, getting to 73/2 before Shahid Afridi bowled Steve Tikolo. He then ran through the lower middle order and the tail with ease, and ended up with figures of 5/16 from 8 overs as Kenya collapsed to 112 all out, with the only resistance offered by Collins Obuya's 47.
Afridi took the best figures for a Pakistan bowler in the World Cup, with 5/16.
New Zealand and Australia and both won their first games easily, and now the Tasman neighbours faced off against each other where the winner would get two wins out of two. Australian captain Ricky Ponting won the toss and asked New Zealand to bat. Opener Brendon McCullum blazed away at the start of the innings until Shaun Tait had him caught at third man. New Zealand progressed at a steady run rate after that, reaching 66/2 for after 13 overs until Tait and Mitchell Johnson unleashed a good spell of bowling which resulted in a collapse of 4 wickets for 7 runs. New Zealand showed resistance after that as Nathan McCullum scored a half-century, and Daniel Vettori a quick 44, which allowed them to get 206.
Australia started rapidly in their chase thanks to Brad Haddin, who went a well over a run a ball right from the start and quickly reached his half-century. Shane Watson was quiet in the opening phase but soon got into the stride, and Australia reached 100 in just 14 overs. Watson didn't take too much longer to reach his half-century either, and although Hamish Bennett offered New Zealand a ray of hope by getting Watson and Haddin out in the same over, Michael Clarke and Cameron White guided Australia hope with ease within 34 overs, with 7 wickets to spare.
Australian batsman Michael Clarke reached 6,000 One Day International runs in his 174 innings during this match.
Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi won the toss and decided to bat first against Sri Lanka, one of the pre-tournament favorites. Sri Lanka got the wicket of Ahmed Shehzad in the sixth over, but Pakistan still managed to proceed along at a rapid run rate in the first ten overs. Mohammed Hafeez, Pakistan's other opener proceeded along at over a run a ball until a mix up with Kamran Akmal had him run out, and Kamran himself was stumped a few overs later to leave the match evenly poised at 105/3 in the 21st over. Younis Khan and Misbah-ul-Haq then built a 104 run partnership in 20 overs without taking too many risks, until Younis fell to Rangana Herath for 72 while trying to accelerate. Misbah stayed not out till the end for a well made 83, but Sri Lanka got the wickets of Umar Akmal and Abdul Razzaq cheaply, and Shahid Afridi before he did too much damage to the score to keep Pakistan to 277/7.
Sri Lanka started off with a very good reply, with their openers Upul Tharanga and Tillakaratne Dilshan accelerating steadily after a slow start to add 76 in just over 14 overs until Hafeez had Tharanga caught at point. This was the turning point of the match, as three more wickets, including that of Dilshan fell soon after to leave Sri Lanka tottering at 96/4. Kumar Sangakkara rode his luck with Kamran missing two stumpings off him, and staged a recovery with Chamara Silva, but his luck eventually ran out as the required run rate went up, with Afridi having him caught at long on one short of his fifty. Silva struggled to time the ball early in his innings, being 16 off 49 balls at one point, but he then accelerated rapidly to reach his half-century, but Afridi returned to remove dangerous looking Angelo Mathews. Silva eventually fell for 57 when Kamran did get a stumping right, and despite Nuwan Kulasekara's cameo, Sri Lanka ended up 11 short.
Pakistani all-rounder Shahid Afridi took his 300th ODI wicket during this match.
Zimbabwe's victory was their fourth biggest by runs margin in ODI cricket, and their biggest in World Cups.
শ্রীলঙ্কান বোলার লাসিথ মালিঙ্গা নিয়েছিলেন একটি হ্যাট্রিক, তার ক্যারিয়ারে দ্বিতীয়। তিনি দুটি বিশ্বকাপের হ্যাটট্রিক গ্রহণকারী প্রথম বোলার এবং চতুর্থ বোলার হয়ে ওয়ানডে কেরিয়ারের দুটি হ্যাটট্রিক করেছেন।
শহীদ আফ্রিদি, যিনি ম্যান অফ দ্য ম্যাচ নির্বাচিত হয়েছিলেন, টানা তিনটি খেলায় চার বা ততোধিক উইকেট নিয়ে বিশ্বকাপের ম্যাচে প্রথম খেলোয়াড় হওয়ার নতুন রেকর্ড গড়েছিলেন।
মার্টিন গাপটিল এবং ব্রেন্ডন ম্যাককুলাম বিশ্বকাপ ম্যাচে নিউজিল্যান্ড জন্য সর্বোচ্চ উদ্বোধনী জুটিতে নতুন রেকর্ড স্থাপন করে।
নো ফলাফলের শেষ অস্ট্রেলিয়া বিশ্বকাপ ২৫ কষ লাভ; অস্ট্রেলিয়া যে বিশ্বকাপে এটা দক্ষিণ আফ্রিকার বিপক্ষে বাঁধা সেমিফাইনাল থেকে খেলেছিলাম জিতে নিয়েছেন ১৯৯৯ ক্রিকেট বিশ্বকাপ। বিশ্বকাপ ম্যাচে অস্ট্রেলিয়ার অপরাজিত থাকার রেকর্ড ভাঙা ছিল না, এবং ৩২ পর্যন্ত বাড়ানো হয়।
কানাডার জয় কেনিয়ার বিপক্ষে তাদের তৃতীয় জয় এবং বিশ্বকাপ তাদের দ্বিতীয় জয় ম্যাচ ছিল. তারা পূর্বে বাংলাদেশ মারধর ২০০৩ ক্রিকেট বিশ্বকাপ।
উদ্বোধনী জুটির জন্য উপুল থারাঙ্গা ও তিলকরত্নে দিলশান নতুন বিশ্বকাপের রেকর্ড গড়লেন, ১৯৪ র আগের রেকর্ডকে হারিয়ে ২৮২ রান সংগ্রহ করেছিলেন। বিশ্বকাপে এটিও প্রথমবারের মতো উভয় ওপেনারই সেঞ্চুরি করেছিলেন। জিম্বাবুয়ের বিপক্ষে তাদের জয়ের ফলে শ্রীলঙ্কা টুর্নামেন্টের কোয়ার্টার ফাইনালের যোগ্যতা অর্জনকারী প্রথম দল হয়ে উঠল। জবাবে জিম্বাবুয়ে দুর্দান্ত শুরু করলেও ১১ ওভারের ফাঁক দিয়ে ১৮৮ রানে আউট হয়ে যায়।
২৬৪ কেনিয়ার মোট বিশ্বকাপে তাদের সর্বোচ্চ স্কোর ম্যাচ শ্রীলংকার বিপক্ষে ২৫৪ তাদের পূর্ববর্তী শ্রেষ্ঠ প্রহার ১৯৯৬ ক্রিকেট বিশ্বকাপ।
The loss was Australia's first loss in a World Cup match since 23 May 1999, when Pakistan defeated Australia at Headingley in the group stage of the 1999 World Cup. This ended a 34-match unbeaten streak (including 32 wins, a tie and a no-result).