Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Cricket world cup


The CricketCricket 1 World Cup, is the premier international championship of men's One-day International (ODI) cricket. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), with preliminary qualification rounds leading up to a finals tournament which is held every four years. The tournament is one of the world's largest and most viewed sporting events. According to the ICC, it is the most important tournament and the pinnacle of achievement in the sport.The first Cricket World Cup contest was organised in England in 1975. A separate Women's Cricket World Cup has been held every four years since 1973. The finals of the Cricket World Cup are contested by all ten Test-playing and ODI-playing nations, together with other national teams that qualify through the ICC Trophy competition. Australia has been the most successful of the five teams to have won the tournament, taking three titles. The West Indies have won twice, while India, Pakistan and SriLanka have each won once.



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The world cup mood was dampened by the death of Bob woolmer,who was the coach of the pakistan team at the hour of his demise.He died just 18 hours after the shock exit of Pakistan.It has been confirmed that he has been murdered.Jamaican police are still on the look-out for the culprit.Several speculations are floating around regarding possible suspects but it remains to be seen whether any of those turn out to be true.It has also been officially told that Bob was strangulated.The Pakistan team have been ruled out as suspects by the police and the most convincing theory is that Bob being killed by Pakistani bookmakers.The victim was expected to release names of persons involved in match fixing during 1999.All we can do is hope that the murderer is caught as soon as possible and pray for Woolmer's soul to rest in peace. Tombstone






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