The Cricket World Cup 2011 thread. EDIT: India World Champions !!

[lloydofcochin]

Originally Posted by lloydofcochin

This is a special victory for India!

Look at the team composition.

Dhoni - Jharkand
Sehwag - Delhi
R Ashwin - Tamil Nadu
Piyush Chawla - UP
Gambhir - Delhi
Harbhajan - Punjab
Zaheer Khan - Maharashtra
Virat Kohli - Delhi
Nehra - Delhi
Munaf Patel - Gujarat
Yusuf Pathan - Gujarat
Suresh Raina - Jammu & Kashmir
Sreesanth - Kerala
Sachin - Maharashtra
Yuvraj - Chandigarh

And this makes it's extra special. Great unity in diversity for one goal

Amazing guys, Hats off to you

I love India and I'm proud to be an Indian!

Originally Posted by esteem_lover

I cannot understand why we have to talk divisive even in this fine moment, isn't this INDIA ? This is an Indian victory for the greatest Indian EVER. This will come through in the next few days, I am sure. What has he done wrong in his life ?

Dude, Read the whole story before commenting

[manolin]

MSD - what a guy!

Sachin - how many years of burden

young guns - showed your time has come

overwhelmed. came back from the streets. everyone is overwhelmed!

[Parm]

Game, Set, MATCH!

Proud to be an INDIAN!

congrats to the indian cricket team and all TBhp members......

BUUUUUUUUUURAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!

[esteem_lover]

Originally Posted by lloydofcochin

Dude, Read the whole story before commenting

I have read the whole story many times my friend, read this one..comes from a very young Indian, the future of Indian cricket.

"This goes out to all the people of India. This is my first World Cup; I can't ask for more. Tendulkar has carried the burden of nation for 21 years; It was time we carried him. Chak de India!"
Virat Kohli leads the Tendulkar tributes

Comes from here http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc_cric...ry/509249.html

[anekho]

What a fantastic moment for every Indian! Amazing game - loved every moment of it!

Dhoni and Ghambir really stepped up the occasion and brought home the victory!

[esteem_lover]

Originally Posted by CliffHanger

I'm sure we are going to see a very new Sachin from now on till he hangs his boots. I will not be surprised if he announces his retirement from ODIs in coming days.

Cheers to Team India, you have inspired a lot of us to aspire better things in Life!

No no no, he will not retire from one day cricket, his tryst through this form of the game has lifted this nation for almost 20 years. Yes, he is human and he has a family to be with. I am sure he will have his one last blast without a care in his mind (which could be the Australian series later in the year). He is simply the BEST EVER, forget Bradman, he never had to play in sub continental wickets with the best spinners with the best variations around, the best he would have seen is a leggie bowling leg spin and an offie bowling off spin.

Originally Posted by lloydofcochin

Dude, Read the whole story before commenting

Yeah, i read it, but still, Why ? Ok leave it. We should savour this moment.

[typeOnegative]

Hell yeahhhhhh! We wonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn! LOL

Feels great. What feels even better is that everyone chipped in and that this is a team win. Wish for many more in the future.

[MAS]

Congrats... We won. We are the world champions.

Felt very proud and emotional about this victory.

Dhoni is an amazing human being and he finished the match in style.

Kudos to the team.

[fordfreak]

Congratulations to the Men in Blue!! Truely deserving victory.

I really wish i was back in India now to celebrate on the streets.

Proud to be Indian!! Jai Hind!!

[MileCruncher]

Its indeed the good game played by the Indian cricket team over the last few years that culminated in India winning the CWC 2011. Great job Indian cricket team! Hats off to Dhoni, Nehra, Yuvraj and Zaheer in particular and the whole playing 11 in general for the great game that they played. I was most impressed with the level of fielding that the Indian team displayed

OT: But I'm seriously appalled at the number of superficial "Proud to be Indian" floating around on Facebook. If it only takes a Cricket World Cup win to feel proud as an Indian, then I think its time for serious introspection for that person India has much more to it than just a cricket win!

[sandeepmdas]

Congrats Team INDIA...

Gary Kirsten has proved to be a real Guru of Team India, simply a fantastic coach who has done an excellent job preparing our team to arrive where it is today. The man deserves a very big Thank You from all of us.

[xingamazon]

Few observation on the CWC2011 matches:

Noticed one thing, not even one player from Karnataka in the 15 member CWC squad.. I remember there were 7 members from KRNTK at one point of time in Indian team

First time in the World cup history it being won by a Wicket Keeper Captain..

Gambhir was just 3 away, from the Man of the match award.. a century would have made sure he got the award.


Dhoni who scored 150 for past 7 matches manages to score 91 in the final and makes sure all are talking about him now.
Especially the last sixer what a shot he made sure the shot was picture perfect I can imagine that last shot being played again and again and again for another decade atleast, it had to look so picture-perfect. He did... that exactly..

MS Dhoni has led India to a World Twenty20 and a World Cup win. Both times, Yuvraj Singh was the Player of the Tournament and Gambhir was top scorer in both finals

It's easy to forget them at this moment, but spare a thought for Mahela, for Sanga, for Murali - Champions all. They have been in two consecutive world cup finals to end up in the loosing side.. Poor them.

For those who did Matric board Tenth Std in TN, One would remember there was one lesson on India Winning the WC in'83.. If India happens to win today, it would be funny that some kid would be having a lesson on this ten yrs down the lane.. He would be cursing for Ind having won the match..

This is just amazing Rajnikanth just has to attend a cricket match and he's trending in India in the Twitter... He just rocks..
In fact even Cricinfo tweet says this..

Five 100s in World Cup finals, and not a single one was in a losing cause

[nkrishnap]

Congrats TEAM INDIA. Wonderful wonderful effort!

MSD you let your calmness and BAT shut the mouths of many people who doubted your ability. Fantastic, its the young guys who have shown time and again what they are made of and they are not afraid of stage. Virat, Gambhir, Raina, they are the future.

Another group that we should never forget and pay very little tribute is to the support staff. The camera shy man GARY KIRSTEN should be given credibility to get the team to this level. Thank you guys.

Sangakara, pack your bags, go back to Lanka and learn more cheating tricks.

[sanjayc]

It is great to see our nation of 1.21 billion people celebrating a sporting triumph over a combination of other rag-tag bunch of competing nations not adding to even half the numbers, either in population or economy.

Hoping the same joy, affection and support is shown to other sports lagging behind cricket. The true joy would be when we are in the top 3 in Olypmics.

[stable rock]

Proud moment for we Indian's. Brilliant, we are the WORLD CHAMPIONSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.