ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 Schedule

Pool A: 

England, Australia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, New Zealand, Qualifier 2, Qualifier 3 

Pool B: 

South Africa, India, Pakistan, West Indies, Zimbabwe, Qualifier 1 (Ireland), Qualifier 4

(Qualifier 1,2,3 teams are yet to be decided)

Total Matches – 49       Hosts:  Australia – 26      New Zealand - 23

  

DATE	DAY	MATCH	VENUE
14-Feb	Saturday	Sri Lanka vs New Zealand	Christchurch
14-Feb	Saturday	England vs Australia	Melbourne
15-Feb	Sunday	South Africa vs Zimbabwe	Hamilton
15-Feb	Sunday	India vs Pakistan	Adelaide
16-Feb	Monday	West Indies vs Ireland	Nelson
17-Feb	Tuesday	New Zealand vs Qualifier 3	Dunedin
18-Feb	Wednesday	Bangladesh vs Qualifier 2	Canberra
19-Feb	Thursday	Zimbabwe vs Qualifier 4	Nelson
20-Feb	Friday	England vs New Zealand	Wellington
21-Feb	Saturday	Pakistan vs West Indies	Christchurch
21-Feb	Saturday	Australia vs Bangladesh	Brisbane
22-Feb	Sunday	Sri Lanka vs Qualifier 2	Dunedin
22-Feb	Sunday	South Africa vs India	Melbourne
23-Feb	Monday	England vs Qualifier 3	Christchurch
24-Feb	Tuesday	West Indies vs Zimbabwe	Canberra
25-Feb	Wednesday	Ireland vs Quallifier 4	Brisbane
26-Feb	Thursday	Qualifier 2 vs Qualifier 3	Dunedin
26-Feb	Thursday	Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh	Melbourne
27-Feb	Friday	South Africa vs West Indies	Sydney
28-Feb	Saturday	Australia vs New Zealand	Auckland
28-Feb	Saturday	India vs Qualifier 4	WACA, Perth
1-Mar	Sunday	England vs Sri Lanka	Wellington
1-Mar	Sunday	Pakistan vs Zimbabwe	Brisbane
3-Mar	Tuesday	South Africa vs Ireland	Canberra
4-Mar	Wednesday	Pakistan vs Qualifier 4	Napier
4-Mar	Wednesday	Australia vs Qualifier 2	WACA, Perth
5-Mar	Thursday	Bangladesh vs Qualifier 3	Nelson
6-Mar	Friday	India vs West Indies	WACA, Perth
7-Mar	Saturday	South Africa vs Pakistan	Auckland
7-Mar	Saturday	Zimbabwe vs Ireland	Hobart
8-Mar	Sunday	New Zealand vs Qualifier 2	Napier
8-Mar	Sunday	Australia vs Sri Lanka	Sydney
9-Mar	Monday	England vs Bangladesh	Adelaide
10-Mar	Tuesday	India vs Ireland	Hamilton
11-Mar	Wednesday	Sri lanka vs Qualifier 3	Hobart
12-Mar	Thursday	South Africa vs Qualifier 4	Wellington
13-Mar	Friday	Bangladesh vs New Zealand	Hamilton
13-Mar	Friday	England vs Qualifier 2	Sydney
14-Mar	Saturday	India vs Zimbabwe	Auckland
14-Mar	Saturday	Australia vs Qualifier 3	Hobart
15-Mar	Sunday	West Indies vs Qualifier 4	Napier
15-Mar	Sunday	Pakistan vs Ireland	Adelaide
Quarter-finals
18-Mar	Wednesday	QF1	Sydney
19-Mar	Thursday	QF2	Melbourne
20-Mar	Friday	QF3	Adelaide
21-Mar	Saturday	QF4	Wellington
Semi-finals
24-Mar	Tuesday	SF1	Auckland
26-Mar	Thursday	SF	Sydney
Final
29-Mar	Sunday	Final	Melbourne

ICC World Championship Events

The BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) was awarded the two events during the ICC (International Cricket Council) Annual Conference held in London on Saturday. The ICC finalized its global events from 2015 to 2023 during the conference and it has been confirmed that BCCI would host the World Twenty20 in 2016 and 50-over World Cup in 2023. Also India is hosting second edition of ICC World Test Championship in 2021. The inaugural ICC World Test Championship will be hosted by England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2017.

  

ICC World Championship Events:

World Twenty20 (2014)  -  Bangladesh

World Twenty20 (2016)  -  BCCI (India)

ICC World Test Championship (2017)  -   ECB (England)

50-over World Cup (2019)  -   ECB (England)

World Twenty20 (2020)  -  CA  (Australia)

ICC World Test Championship (2021)  -   BCCI (India)

50-over World Cup (2023)  -   BCCI (India)

Also the ICC decided that full members have to play a minimum of 16 Tests over a four-year period to retain their Test status. To make sure that all ODIs played over the four-year cycle between ICC Cricket World Cups count towards a team's ranking, the ICC Board agreed to change the ODI rankings period from three years to four years. Afghanistan was confirmed as the 37th Associate Member of the ICC and Romania was accepted as an Affiliate Member.

INDIA Lifts ICC Champions Trophy 2013

India once again proved everyone that they are the real champions after defeating England in ICC Champions Trophy final and retains the No 1 spot in One-Day International team list. India has won all five of their matches after a pair of warm-up victories in this Champions Trophy, thereby backing up their 2011 World Cup win with another ODI trophy. India has won six games in succession in the ICC Champions Trophy and also is the first team to win the final of the ICC Champions Trophy batting first.

This is the rightly balanced team with an average age of 26-27 and energetic lads like Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan and Dinesh Karthik who have show and n the world what they are capable of, it came to such a point that the international media covering the tournament labeled the Indians the best fielding unit in the world — something unheard of in the past. 

MS Dhoni (31), the oldest of current team is the first captain to win all three ICC trophies - ICC World Cup, ICC World Twenty20 and the ICC Champions Trophy. Shikhar Dhawan has established an Indian record for the highest run-aggregate with strike rate of 100-plus in an ICC Champions Trophy competition - 363 runs (ave.90.75) in five matches, including two hundreds and a fifty. He has also received his first Player of the series award in ODIs. Ravindra Jadeja is the leading wicket-taker with 12 wickets at 12.83 runs apiece. He is the MOM of the final and is his fourth MOM award against England is his seventh in ODIs.

ICC ANNUAL AWARDS – 2012

ICC annual awards function was held in Colombo on Saturday to honour the best cricketers of the world in 2011-2012. India's Virat Kohli named the ‘ODI Cricketer of the Year’ for his splendid performance compiling 1,733 runs at an outstanding average of 66.65, including eight centuries and six half-centuries in 31 ODIs with highest score of 183 against Pakistan in the Asia Cup.

Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara won three awards - the prestigious Cricketer of the Year, Test Cricketer of the Year and the People's Choice prize. He had received the People's Choice award last year as well. Sangakkara scored 1,444 runs at an average of 60.16, including five centuries and five half-centuries in 14 test matches. He also played 37 ODIs, scoring 1,457 runs at an average of 42.85, with three centuries and nine half-centuries. He has also effected 42 dismissals in the ODIs.

West Indies spinner Sunil Narine was named as the Emerging Cricketer of the Year. He took 12 Test wickets at an average 31.50 in three Tests, while in the 15 ODIs he played in he claimed 28 wickets at an average of 18.82. South Africa's Richard Levi won the ICC Twenty20 International Performance of the Year in recognition of his 51-ball 117 not out against New Zealand. India’s Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who was included in the team for a fifth year in succession, was named the captain of the team.

Previous winners of Cricketer of the Year award - Rahul Dravid (2004), Andrew Flintoff and Jacques Kallis (joint winners in 2005), Ricky Ponting (2006 and 2007), Shivnarine Chanderpaul (2008), Mitchell Johnson (2009), Sachin Tendulkar (2010) and Jonathan Trott (2011).

Cricketer of the Year: Kumar Sangakkara (SL)

Test Cricketer of the Year: Kumar Sangakkara (SL)

ODI Cricketer of the Year: Virat Kohli (Ind)

T20 International Performance of the Year: Richard Levi (RSA)

Spirit of Cricket Award: Daniel Vettori (NZ)

Emerging Cricketer of the Year: Sunil Narine (WI)

Umpire of the Year: Kumar Dhamasena (SL)

Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year: Stafanie Taylor (WI)

Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year: Sarah Taylor (Eng)

Associate and Affiliate Cricketer of the Year: George Dockrell (Ire)

ICC one-day Team of the Year: Gautam Gambhir, Alastair Cook, Kumar Sangakkara, Virat Kohli, M.S. Dhoni (capt. & wk), Michael Clarke, Shahid Afridi, Morne Morkel, Steven Finn, Lasith Malinga and Saeed Ajmal. 12th man: Shane Watson.

ICC Test Team of the Year - 2012

Based on the performances by players between 4 August 2011 and 6 August 2012, the International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced its Test Team of the Year, as chosen by a selection panel headed by Clive Lloyd.

 

ICC Test Team of the Year:

Alastair Cook (Eng)

Hashim Amla (SA)

Kumar Sangakkara (SL)

Jacques Kallis (SA)

Michael Clarke (Aus) - Captain

Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WI)

Matt Prior (Eng )– wicketkeeper

Stuart Broad (Eng)

Saeed Ajmal (Pak)

Vernon Philander (SA)

Dale Steyn (SA)

12th Man – AB de Villiers (SA)

  

South Africa’s Dale Steyn has earned a place in the ICC Test Team of the Year for the fifth successive year. South Africa’s Hashim Amla and Jacques Kallis and Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara feature in the side for the third successive year while England’s Alastair Cook and Stuart Broad appear for the second year in a row.

Since this award’s inception in 2004, it is the first time that the ICC Test Team of the year doesn’t feature an Indian player. Below listed players were a part of this side in the previous years:

 Year                        Player

2004                Rahul Dravid

2005                Virender Sehwag, Anil Kumble*

2006                Rahul Dravid

2007                Zaheer Khan*

2008                Virender Sehwag

2009                Gautam Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar, Mahendra Singh Dhoni

2010                Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Mahendra Singh Dhoni

2011                Sachin Tendulkar, Zaheer Khan*

*Selected as the 12th man