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RE: ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 News, Updates and Results

India face test of fitness and confidence in warm-up match against Australia
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India will have to recover quickly from the blow
of losing pace spearhead Ishant Sharma even as
the fitness of Rohit Sharma, Bhuvneshwar
Kumar and Ravindra Jadeja will be under
spotlight as they take on hosts Australia in the
opening warm-up game of the ICC Cricket World
Cup.

The defending champions failed to win a single
game in the recently concluded tri- nation ODI
series as they miserably flopped in both
departments, raising doubts if the team is well-
equipped to defend its title under prevalent
conditions.

Since the match won't have official status, India
can test all their batsmen as well as bowlers in
tomorrow's as well as next warm-up tie against
Afghanistan.

Ahead of their campaign, the team has lost
Ishant due to knee injury, making the job even
tougher for the struggling side. He had not
played much of the Test and ODI series but the
lanky bowler had experience of negotiating the
conditions.

The good news is that swing bowler
Bhuvneshwar Kumar and opener Rohit Sharma
are fit to play in the quadrennial event.

Fast bowler Mohit Sharma is most likely to
replace Ishant in the squad and it will not be a
surprise if he is picked ahead of wayward
Umesh Yadav. Mohit impressed everyone with
his bowling against England at Perth.

Rohit, when on song, is a treat to watch and it
will be a test as to how well he has recuperated
from hamstring injury.

Already when the batting line-up was struggling
badly, India needs Rohit and Virat Kohli to fire if
they harbour hopes of doing well.

Ravindra Jadeja, a key element in skipper MS
Dhoni's scheme of things has also recovered and
eyes will be on him as well after recovering from
--- injury.

Having him in the side gives the team an option
of having more arsenal. The team will also have
to decide if off-spinner R Ashwin was a better
choice or Axar Patel.

Despite his continuous failure, Shikhar Dhawan
is likely to open the batting and these two
games will be the last chances that he will get to
cement his place in the playing XI. There was
experiment with Virat Kohli's batting slot in the
tri-series and the management also has to
decide quickly on giving him a final slot.

All this has to be decided tomorrow and on
Tuesday when the team plays minnows
Afghanistan in the final warm up game before
the big clash against arch-rivals Pakistan on
February 15.

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Hawkeye, Realtime Snicko for World Cup

Real-time Snicko and Hawkeye ball-tracking will
be used, while Hot Spot will be absent from DRS
deliberations at the World Cup in what looms as
the final ICC event for the review system in its
current form.

The ICC's cricket operations manager Geoff
Allardice confirmed that the entire DRS system
was to be reviewed and perhaps re-imagined
between now and the next major event to use it
- the 2017 Champions Trophy to be hosted by
England. A review of the entire DRS system, in
use in various forms since 2008, is set to land
on Allardice's desk at the ICC headquarters in
Dubai in the second half of 2015.

When combined with India's longtime
intransigence, that report may mark significant
changes to the system, meaning the 2015 World
Cup may come to be seen as 1987's was - the
last event to be played in whites and without
any day/night matches scheduled. For now,
Allardice confirmed the format of the DRS for
the next six weeks, explaining that Hot Spot was
largely ruled out due to the cost and difficulty of
getting the required equipment to all venues
across the two host countries.

"They'll be using ball tracking and the snicko for
all matches. So it will be applied evenly across
every match in the pool stage and the final
stages," Allardice said in Adelaide. "So the
umpires all have tools and they've spent two
days working through how to do the preparation
for the tournaments and how to use the
umpiring tools.

"The primary reason for no Hot Spot is that the
number of cameras needed to cover all matches
given the schedule was just far in excess of the
number available. So it wasn't practical to do it
for all matches under the same conditions, so
that was the reason we didn't go down that
path.

"The decision was taken a long time ago that the
DRS was going to be used in ICC events in this
cycle from 2007 through 2015. It was used in
the 2011 World Cup, it was used at the
Champions Trophy in 2013, and it's used in this
World Cup, so it's business as usual."

Given the changes made to the ICC's
governance during 2014, Allardice hinted that it
would be a rather different system in place by
2017, though the recommendations of the
review are yet to be known. "I think the
arrangements are around future events, so the
next event wouldn't use DRS under the current
regime," he said. "So 2017 as far as ICC events
goes would be the next one International event
we'd look at. I think there is still negotiation to
take place as to how DRS will be used in that
tournament.

"There is work going on at the moment around
reviewing DRS and the use of technology, and I
think it's been status quo to the World Cup
using the same system we've used for a while.

But I think after the World Cup we'll revisit the
last few years and see how it's going and
whether the protocols that are in place at the
moment are the ones that serve our game the
best."

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Fractured hand rules Prasad out of World Cup
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Fast bowler Dhammika Prasad has been ruled
out of the World Cup after suffering a fractured
hand at training on Saturday, two days prior to
Sri Lanka's first warm-up encounter. The injury
is expected to keep him out of action for four
weeks, and the team will name a replacement
subject to the approval of the ICC's event
technical committee.

"Dhammika Prasad was hit on the outside of the
left hand when attempting a return catch while
bowling," an official release said. "The x-ray
showed a fracture of the fifth metacarpal bone.
The fracture has been realigned and put in a
cast. Dhammika will not be available for the
upcoming World Cup."

No decision on a replacement has yet been
made, as chief selector Sanath Jayasuriya is en
route to New Zealand to join the team as the
selector-on-tour. The selection panel will then
consult with team management and captain
Angelo Mathews, before presenting their
replacement to the event technical committee.

Sri Lanka have fast bowlers Shaminda Eranga
and Dushmantha Chameera on standby, but
may also name a batsman to take Prasad's
place, as the batting order had been less
productive than the selectors had hoped during
the seven-match ODI series against New
Zealand.

Eranga represents the safer option for Sri Lanka.
He has only played 17 ODIs, but has been a
fixture of the Test side, and recently took three
wickets at 27.66 in his two outings against New
Zealand. Chameera, 23, is the quicker bowler,
but he has only played one ODI.

Among the potential pool of batsmen that could
be named, are Upul Tharanga , who has been
among the runs in Sri Lanka's ongoing first-class
tournament, and Kusal Perera .

Prasad was struck in the hand by a ball
bludgeoned back at him by Thisara Perera. He
played two ODIs against New Zealand, taking
two scalps at 45.2.

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I think india team is not good team.
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Middle overs will be crucial for us in the World Cup: MS Dhoni

Australia have won the World
Cup four times, twice as much as any
other team. But they also share a dubious
distinction with England (1999) and South
Africa (2003). In 1992, they were the first
host nation to be eliminated in the first
round of the competition.

Four years ago, India won on home turf,
after a stuttering start to the campaign
that saw a tied match against England and
a loss to South Africa. "It is slightly
tough," said MS Dhoni, choosing not to
indulge in any mind games before the
warm-up match against Australia at the
Adelaide Oval on Sunday (February 8).

"That's what also the stats suggest. It's
not that a lot of home teams have won the
World Cup. The expectation of the people,
it's very high, and that's what we figure
out when we are touring and all over in
India playing different venues.

"Everybody just says, you have to get the
World Cup, and you ask them, okay, why
do you feel that or why do you say so,
and the answer is not that you are a very
good team at all. The answer is it's
happening in India. I think the same will
apply to the Australians and the New
Zealand side. But at the same time, their
culture is slightly different, so what's the
kind of expectation level, that we'll have
to wait and watch. But I think it will be
exciting."

India have been in Australia for two and a
half months and have yet to win an
international outing. There is also the
fatigue factor to contend with. Back in
1992, when Australia and New Zealand last
hosted the event, India came into it after
five Tests (lost 4-0), ten ODIs (the tri-
series and finals) and games against state
sides. They finished with two wins from
their eight World Cup matches.
This time, after two Test defeats and three
losses in the tri-series, the
acclimatisation process hasn't quite gone
as planned. "I think what's important is to
adapt to the conditions in the middle,"
said Dhoni. "I feel that will be very crucial.

The triseries that we have played so far,
we have seen that the new ball is
something that is quite crucial, but also a
lot depends on the kind of wicket that is
provided. New Zealand will be slightly
different to playing in Australia. A lot will
depend on the venues, what kind of a
wicket it is, if it's overcast, or if there's
rain forecast, all of that will come into
action relatively more than when we
played in the subcontinent. You have to
address quite a few things, but keeping it
simple is very important."

Their time on the road could work in two
ways. The players had a week off after
their elimination from the tri-series, and
spirits seemed high as they went off to
practise for the first time. Ravi Shastri,
the team director, told Wisden India that
reports of rifts within the camp were "just
rubbish" - pointing to the cheerful group
behind him, but only time will tell whether
India have enough left in the tank to
mount a successful title defence.

"There's a very fine line, especially if you
do barbecue, you can understand that,"
said Dhoni, resorting to an analogy to
explain the time away from home. "But
again, as I said, when we went and played
the Champions Trophy, we were in a
similar situation like this, and the guys
stepped up, and that's what I feel is
important in the ICC tournaments. If you
see the past, there have been quite a few
teams that do really well in the ICC
tournaments.

"They may not be the best of teams when
it comes to the bilateral series, but they
have always stepped up when it comes to
the ICC tournaments. What we have seen
is how you rise to an occasion like this
and how you take the confidence forward
to something that's more important and
somewhat different to a bilateral series."

India's recent record in ICC events has
been outstanding. They hold both the
World Cup and the Champions Trophy, and
were unbeaten at the last World Twenty20
until Sri Lanka proved too good in the
final. But a week away from the
tournament opener against Pakistan,
plenty of concerns remain. "I think what's
crucial for us will be the middle overs,
both in batting and bowling," said Dhoni.

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World Cup is important, but it's just another tournament: AB de Villiers

Although South Africa have
always been one of the favourites to
win the World Cup, neither Kepler
Wessels, Hansie Cronje, Shaun Pollock
nor Graeme Smith could lead the team
to the title in their six editions South
Africa have played in since 1992, when
they were readmitted into international
cricket after the end of apartheid.

Such has been the frustration that Fikile
Mbalula, South Africa's sports minister,
asked the team not to "become a bunch
of losers" at the departure function in
Johannesburg a few days ago. Reacting
to the comment, AB de Villiers, South
Africa's One-Day International captain,
said at a media interaction in
Wellington on Saturday (February 7):

"Our country of South Africa expects a
lot from our sports people, and we're
expected to come here and win the
tournament. We understand that, and
obviously there's pressure that comes
with comments like that, but we don't
mind that.

"We've been the favourites before in the
tournament. It didn't work out for us.

Then we went to another tournament.
We weren't the favourites, didn't work
out for us. I'm not really sure if it's a
title that deserves a lot of time and a lot
of talking about," he added. "But look,
obviously the Aussies are No. 1 in the
world at the moment in the shorter
format. They're playing at home, which
brings a different dimension to the
whole thing, maybe a little bit of extra
pressure. But we're certainly one of the
favourites. There's no hiding from that
fact. We enjoy being one of the best
teams in the world."

Having made his first World Cup
appearance in 2007, de Villiers is one of
South Africa's most experienced player
in the tournament, but he was not
reading much into it.

"It's an important tournament, but it's
just another tournament. That's
probably the biggest lesson that I've
learnt," he said. "The boys all feel very
confident, but I can't tell you that we
learned something in 2007 that I'm
going to use now. We're just going to
play each game and do the best that we
can and try and win this tournament."

South Africa play their two practice
matches against Sri Lanka and New
Zealand in Christchurch starting
Monday. De Villiers stressed it was good
preparation for his team ahead of the
tournament proper, but winning the
warm-ups was not his priority.

"I emphasise the fact that it's a warm-
up game, and the result is not that
important," he said. "It would be nice to
win, but we want to get a few other
areas of our game sorted out, try a few
things, and just make our batters get a
few overs, seeing our batters score some
runs. We'll work on some things on the
field, and that's what it's all about."
De Villiers clarified that all the players,
including JP Duminy and Quinton de
Kock who were injured, were "100% fit".

Having recorded the fastest fifty and
century in the history of ODIs only last
month against West Indies in
Johannesburg, de Villiers played down
his aspirations to repeat of any such
feat and delved on the significance of
playing as per the team's requirement.

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Most matches as captain
Player
Span
Mat
Won
Lost
Tied
NR
%
RT Ponting (Aus)
2003-2011
29
26
2
0
1
92.85
SP Fleming (NZ)
1999-2007
27
16
10
0
1
61.53
M Azharuddin (India)
1992-1999
23
10
12
0
1
45.45
Imran Khan (Pak)
1983-1992
22
14
8
0
0
63.63
CH Lloyd (WI)
1975-1983
17
15
2
0
0
88.23
GC Smith (SA)
2007-2011
17
11
6
0
0
64.70
AR Border (Aus)
1987-1992
16
11
5
0
0
68.75
WJ Cronje (SA)
1996-1999
15
11
3
1
0
76.66
N Kapil Dev (India)
1983-1987
15
11
4
0
0
73.33
Wasim Akram (Pak)
1996-1999
15
10
5
0
0
66.66
BC Lara (WI)
1999-2007
14
7
7
0
0
50.00
 
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