Super Eight's are Here

First round of Cricket World Cup 2007 is over with the final match of first round between Bangladesh and Bermuda from group B. Where Bangladesh defeated Bermuda with 7 wickets and secured a space for itself in second round.

Australia and South Africa are qualified from group A with Australia taking lead by 6 points after defeating South Africa in an interesting match which also features record of fastest century in Cricket World Cup by Mathew Hayden in 66 balls.

Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are qualified from group B where Sri Lanka is leading the group tally by 6 points.

New Zealand and England are qualified from group C where New Zealand is leading the group by winning all three matches and securing 6 points.

In group D West Indies secured its place in Super Eight rounds with 6 points while Ireland also qualified for the next stage from this group.

Super Eight round will start with West Indies's match against Australia on 27th Mar 2007 at Antigua & Barbuda and also end with West Indies's match against England on 21st April 2007 at Barbados. Also Australia, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and West Indies are already having two points each in their account as they beated South Africa, Bangladesh, England and Ireland in their first round of matches respectively.

Super Eight round will be filled with clashes between six titans and two minnows who can upset the points calculation in this stage in a same way as it happenes in first round for India and Pakistan.

All the Best to All the Teams in Super Eight Stage.

A Record Breaking Day

The twelfth match of World Cup 2007 between India and Bermuda was full of records. Here is the list of few broken and/or equaled records:

• India's 413 for 5 against Bermuda broke the record for the highest total in a World Cup match. Before this Sri Lanka had this record from 1996 World Cup to till now with a score of 398 for 5 against Kenya.
• India manage to win by a large margin of 257 runs against Bermuda which broke the previous record of largest margin of Australia's 256-run win against Namibia in the 2003 World Cup.
• India also managed to equal South Africa's recent record for most sixes in an inning by knocking 18 sixes against Bermuda.
• Malachi Jones of Bermuda became the first bowler to take a wicket with his first delivery in a World Cup with Robin Uthappa's wicket.
• Virender Sehwag marked his first century in World Cup matches by scoring 114 off 87 balls against Bernuda. Also he created third fastest century in World Cup by knocking 100 runs in 81 balls.
• Bermuda with five ducks in its innings equaled the record of most ducks in the World Cup matches.
• Ganguly equaled the record of most sixes i.e. 25 sixes in World Cups of Ricky Ponting also playing ten less match then him.

Apart from this records hosts West Indies secured its place in second round of World Cup matches by beating Zimbabwe while Pakistan got the way for early exit.

If you are aware with any more records for the day which is not mentioned here then please add it here using Comment section.

Group D: Today Pakistan at Bottom End

With a thrilling tie between Zimbabwe and debutant Ireland Pakistan's tally of points till now is ZERO in group D while West Indies is leading the points card with 2 points and Zimbabwe and Ireland are sharing 1 point each.

Ireland gave target of 222 which includes Jeremy Bray's unbeaten 115 while from Zimbabwe's side Matsikenyeri scored 73 of 76 deliveries but they stuck at 221. Bray declared Man of the Match.

Ireland skipper Johnston's quote after the match: "Who knows, we may even qualify for the next stage".

Anyway this tie will not be beneficial for Zimbabwe as they need to try hard in remaining matches if they want to play with Big Guns in Next round of matches.

Trivia: This is the third time that a World Cup match ended in a tie.

In an another match between Sri Lanka and Bermuda. Bermuda started very well by taking two big wickets of Sri Lanka with in 12 overs only but still Sri Lanka gave a huge target of 322 and simply knocked out all the batsman of Ireland for cost of 78 runs only. Sri Lanka won this match by 243 runs. Sri Lankan skipper Jayawardene declared Man of the Match for his 85 runs in 90 balls.

Today don't forget to watch interesting match between England and New Zealand. In another match South Africa will take on Holland.