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.

World's Highest-Paid Athletes (2013)

 *Below list is validated as on June 2013

Rank	Player's Name	Earnings	Sport
1	Tiger Woods	$78.1 M	Golf
2	Roger Federer	$71.5 M	Tennis
3	Kobe Bryant	$61.9 M	Basketball
4	LeBron James	$59.8 M	Basketball
5	Drew Brees	$51 M	Football
6	Aaron Rodgers	$49 M	Football
7	Phil Mickelson	$48.7 M	Golf
8	David Beckham	$47.2 M	Soccer
9	Cristiano Ronaldo	$44 M	Soccer
10	Lionel Messi	$41.3 M	Soccer
11	Tom Brady	$38.3 M	Football
12	Derrick Rose	$37.4 M	Football
13	Joe Flacco	$36.8 M	Football
14	Floyd Mayweather	$34 M	Boxing
14	Manny Pacquiao	$34 M	Boxing
16	Mahendra Singh Dhoni	$31.5 M	Cricket
17	Kevin Durant	$30.9 M	Basketball
18	Alex Rodriguez	$30.3 M	Baseball
19	Fernando Alonso	$30 M	Racing
19	Peyton Manning	$30 M	Football
21	Rory McIlroy	$29.6 M	Golf
22	Maria Sharapova	$29 M	Tennis
23	Dwyane Wade	$28.9 M	Basketball
24	Tony Romo	$28.8 M	Football
25	Carmelo Anthony	$28 M	Basketball
26	Lewis Hamilton	$27.5 M	Racing
27	Amar'e Stoudemire	$27 M	Basketball
28	Novak Djokovic	$26.9 M	Tennis
29	Dwight Howard	$26.5 M	Basketball
30	Rafael Nadal	$26.4 M	Tennis
31	Calvin Johnson	$26.3 M	Football
32	Dale Earnhardt, Jr.	$26 M	Racing
33	Ray Rice	$25.8 M	Football
34	Joe Mauer	$25.5 M	Baseball
34	Johan Santana	$25.5 M	Baseball
36	Derek Jeter	$25.4 M	Baseball
37	Felix Hernandez	$25.3 M	Baseball
38	Dwayne Bowe	$24.9 M	Football
39	Josh Hamilton	$24.7 M	Baseball
40	Usain Bolt	$24.2 M	Track
41	Jimmie Johnson	$24 M	Racing
41	Wladimir Klitschko	$24 M	Boxing
43	Prince Fielder	$23.8 M	Baseball
44	CC Sabathia	$23.6 M	Baseball
45	Vincent Jackson	$23.4 M	Football
46	Miguel Cabrera	$23 M	Baseball
47	Cliff Lee	$22.9 M	Baseball
47	Mark Teixeira	$22.9 M	Baseball
49	Cole Hamels	$22.7 M	Baseball
50	Matt Schaub	$22.3 M	Football
51	Valentino Rossi	$22 M	Motorcycle
52	Sachin Tendulkar	$22 M	Cricket
53	Clay Matthews	$21.8 M	Football
53	Chris Paul	$21.8 M	Basketball
55	Zack Grienke	$21.7 M	Baseball
56	Gilbert Arenas	$21.6 M	Basketball
57	Pau Gasol	$21.5 M	Basketball
58	Dirk Nowitzki	$21.4 M	Basketball
59	Adrian Gonzalez	$21.2 M	Baseball
59	Vernon Wells	$21.2 M	Baseball
61	Wayne Rooney	$21.1 M	Soccer
62	Ryan Howard	$21 M	Baseball
63	Sergio Aguero	$20.9 M	Soccer
64	Didier Drogba	$20.8 M	Soccer
64	Joe Johnson	$20.8 M	Basketball
64	Justin Verlander	$20.8 M	Baseball
67	Yaya Touré	$20.7 M	Soccer
68	Roy Halladay	$20.5 M	Baseball
68	Neymar	$20.5 M	Soccer
68	Serena Williams	$20.5 M	Tennis
71	Tim Lincecum	$20.1 M	Baseball
72	Carl Crawford	$20 M	Baseball
73	Fernando Torres	$20 M	Soccer
74	Barry Zito	$19.9 M	Baseball
75	Chris Bosh	$19.8 M	Basketball
76	Zlatan Ibrahimovic	$19.7 M	Soccer
77	Ichiro Suzuki	$19.6 M	Baseball
78	Ernie Els	$19.5 M	Golf
79	Kaka	$19.3 M	Soccer
80	Deron Williams	$19.2 M	Basketball
81	Brandt Snedeker	$19 M	Golf
82	Paul Pierce	$18.8 M	Basketball
83	Tony Stewart	$18.5 M	Racing
84	Carl Nicks	$18.3 M	Football
85	Jeff Gordon	$18.2 M	Racing
85	Li Na	$18.2 M	Tennis
85	Carlos Tevez	$18.2 M	Soccer
88	Alfonso Soriano	$18.1 M	Baseball
89	Sebastian Vettel	$18 M	Racing
90	Matt Cain	$17.4 M	Baseball
90	Matt Holliday	$17.4 M	Baseball
92	Michael Young	$17.3 M	Baseball
93	Rudy Gay	$17.2 M	Basketball
93	Steven Gerrard	$17.2 M	Soccer
95	Zach Randolph	$17 M	Basketball
96	Russell Westbrook	$16.9 M	Basketball
97	Andrew Bynum	$16.7 M	Basketball
98	A.J. Burnett	$16.6 M	Baseball
98	Brandon Roy	$16.6 M	Basketball
100	Samuel Eto'o	$16.4 M	Soccer