Top 3 Most Watched World Sports

Football (Soccer): With over 3.5 billion fans, football (or soccer) is undeniably the most watched sport in the world. Football has the maximum stadiums, greatest numbers of people buying football merchandise, number of competitions and events held. Also there are the maximum number of teams, leagues and clubs for football all over the world.

Cricket: Immensely popular from the beginning, since its inception in England in the 16th century. The Cricket world cup in 2007, had 672,000 spectators in the stadiums alone and about 2.2 billion TV viewers, with the matches being telecast in 200 countries. The 2011 Cricket world cup was broadcasted in 220 countries.

Basketball: Basketball has about 2 billion spectators worldwide, though most are in USA and Europe. The NBA is the most popular league with all its matches being closely watched. The NBA has a viewership of 1.5  – 2 million per match, and a total viewership of 15 million per season. The NCCA drew a viewership of 12 million viewers.

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Cricket Basics

BOWLER

BATSMAN STRIKER END

WICKET KEEPERFIELDER

UMPIRE

BATSMANNON-STRIKER END

Typical cricket team

Total 15 players in one team

– 11 Playing + 4 Extras

– Among Playing 11

• 4 or 5 bowlers

• 2 or 3 Spin bowlers

• 2 or 3 Pace bowlers

• 4 or 5 batsmen

• 3 or 4 Top-order batsmen

• 1 or 2 All rounders

• 1 Wicketkeeper - batsman

Typical cricket game (world cup final)…

Srilanka won the toss and chose to bat first.

First Inning - Srilanka Batting, India Bowling & Fielding:

– Srilankan players batted and scored 274 runs

– Indian bowlers bowled 50 overs ( 1 over = 6 balls, 50 overs = 300 balls )

– 6 Srilankan batsmen lost their wickets

Second Inning - India Batting, Srilanka Bowling & Fielding:

– Indian players batted and scored 277 runs

– Srilankan bowlers bowled 48.2 overs

– 4 Indian batsmen lost their wickets

India won by scoring more runs in less than 50 overs bowled by Srilanka

Srilanka would have won if they had restricted Indian runs to less than 274 in 50 overs OR by getting all Indian batsmen out before scoring 274

Cricket - Game Formats

International Test Cricket– Most difficult format– No restriction on number of overs– Each side bats two innings– An inning ends when the batting side loses all wickets– The game lasts maximum 5 days ( 6 hours of play on each day )– A test match can result into a draw

One Day International (ODI)– Restriction of 50 overs– Each side bats one inning– An inning ends when the batting side loses all wickets or exhausts 50 overs– The game lasts around 7 hours– An ODI match can result into a tie if both sides score same number of runs

Twenty20 Cricket– Restriction of 20 overs– Each side bats one inning– An innning ends when the batting side loses all wickets or exhausts 20 overs– The game lasts around 3 to 4 hours– A Twenty20 match can result into a tie if both sides score same number of runs

ICC Cricket World Cup History

All Cricket World Cup Tournaments - Records

Most world-cup wins

Australia - 4 titles (1975–2011)

Most runs scored by a player

Sachin Tendulkar (India) – 2278 Runs (1992–2011)

Most wickets taken by a player

Glenn McGrath (Australia) - 71 wickets (1996–2007)

Highest Score by a team

India vs Bermuda 413/5 (2007)

ICC Cricket World Cup 2011

Group A

Group B

Path to Victory

Stats - ICC Cricket World Cup 2011

Salient Features: ICC Cricket World Cup 2011

India became the first host-nation to win the world cup with final played in the host country itself.

India Team Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni played a captain's knock of unbeaten 91 in the final and was adjudged man of the match.

India’s Yuvraj Singh was adjudged man of the tournament for:– 15 wickets in 9 matches– 362 runs in match winning tons at batting average 85.25 in 8 matches– 4 half-centuries– 4 man of the match awards in this tournament– outstanding fielding efforts

Ireland's Kevin O'Brien made 100 in just 50 balls (and a total of 113 off 63 balls), the fastest World Cup Century.

Ireland made the highest successful run chase in World Cup history beating Sri Lanka's 313 against Zimbabwe at New Plymouth in New Zealand in 1992.

India's mammoth 370 for 4 in the first match of the 2011 World Cup against Bangladesh at Dhaka was the highest total in the tournament

South Africa's 231-run thrashing of Netherlands was the “largest victory by runs“ in the tournament.

India and Sri Lanka cricket World Cup final smashed all previous records for television viewership with 67.6 million viewers watching it for more than four hours.

India Squad - ICC World Cup 2011 Champion

Q & A

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