World Cup - Top 10 Run Scorers

	Name	Country	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	SR	50/100
1	ML Hayden	AUS	11	11	1	659	158	73.22	101.07	1/3
2	DPMD Jayawardhane	SL	11	11	2	548	115*	60.88	85.09	4/1
3	RT Ponting	AUS	11	9	1	539	113	67.37	95.39	4/1
4	SB Styris	NZ	10	9	3	499	111*	83.16	83.44	4/1
5	JH Kallis	SA	10	9	3	485	128*	80.83	83.91	3/1
6	ST Jayasuriya	SL	11	11	1	467	115	46.70	98.31	2/2
7	AC Gilchrist	AUS	11	11	1	453	149	45.30	103.89	2/1
8	KP Pietersen	ENG	9	9	1	444	104	55.50	81.02	3/2
9	GC Smith	SA	10	10	1	443	91	49.22	104.48	5/0
10	MJ Clarke	AUS	11	9	4	436	93*	87.20	94.98	4/0

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World Cup 2007 - Points Table

So friends the Super Eight stage has reached its last stages and we have the top four teams getting ready for the semifinals. As expected, Australia, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and South Africa have made it to the final four leaving behind the hosts West Indies and England. Even Bangladesh and the debutants Eire did put up a great fight but not great enough to secure them a spot in the semifinals

SUPER EIGHT

	Team	MP	W	D	L	PCF	Pts	NRR
	AUS	7	7	0	0	2	14	+2.40
	SL	7	5	0	2	2	10	+1.48
	NZ	7	5	0	2	2	10	+0.25
	SA	7	4	0	3	0	8	+0.31
	ENG	7	3	0	4	0	6	-0.39
	WI	7	2	0	5	2	4	-0.57
	BAN	7	1	0	6	0	2	-1.51
	IRE	7	1	0	6	0	2	-1.73

GROUP STAGE

Group A

	Team	MP	W	D	L	Pts	NRR
	AUS	3	3	0	0	6	+3.43
	SA	3	2	0	1	4	+2.40
	NET	3	1	0	2	2	-2.53
	SCO	3	0	0	3	0	-3.79

Group B

	Team	MP	W	D	L	Pts	NRR
	SL	3	3	0	0	6	+3.49
	BAN	3	2	0	1	4	-1.52
	IND	3	1	0	2	0	+1.21
	BER	3	0	0	3	0	-4.34

Group C

	Team	MP	W	D	L	Pts	NRR
	NZ	3	3	0	0	6	+2.14
	ENG	3	2	0	1	4	+0.42
	KEN	3	1	0	2	2	-1.19
	CAN	3	0	0	3	0	-1.39

Group D

	Team	MP	W	D	L	Pts	NRR
	WI	3	3	0	0	4	+0.76
	IRE	3	1	1	1	3	-0.09
	PAK	3	1	0	2	2	+0.09
	ZIM	3	0	1	2	1	-0.89

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Saurav Ganguly

Full name: Sourav Chandidas Ganguly
Nickname: Dada, Maharaj, Bengal Tiger, Prince of Calcutta, Lord Snooty
Born: July 8, 1972, Calcutta (now Kolkata), Bengal
Major teams: India, ACC Asian XI, Bengal, Glamorgan, Lancashire
Height: 5.11 ft
Education: St Xavier's College
Relations: Brother - Snehasish C Ganguly

Batting style: Left-hand bat
Bowling style: Right-arm medium

Test debut: England v India at Lord's - Jun 20-24, 1996

ODI debut: India v West Indies at Brisbane - Jan 11, 1992

Born on 8th July, 1972, Saurav Ganguly made his One Day International debut against Australia in 1992, and a Test debut versus England in 1996. He went on to become the captain of Indian cricket team from 2000 to 2005. He has led India to the World Cup 2003 finals, and holds the Indian captaincy record for the most Test victories. He was dropped from the national team in early 2006 due to conflicts with the then new coach Greg Chappell. He was recalled to the Indian Test side in December, to fill the position of a left handed batsman (Yuvraj Singh) who was injured. With reasonably consistant scores during the 2006 - 2007 Indian tour of South Africa, this could be remembered as his succesful comeback to international cricket

Some felt he couldn't play the bouncer, others swore that he was God on the off-side; some laughed at his lack of athleticism, others took immense pride in his ability to galvanise a side. Sourav Ganguly's ability to polarise opinion led to one of the most fascinating dramas in Indian cricket. Yet, nobody can dispute that he was India's most successful Test captain. When he took over the captaincy after the match-fixing exposes in 2000, he quickly proved to be a tough, intuitive and uncompromising leader. Under his stewardship India started winning Test matches away, and put together a splendid streak that took them all the way to the World Cup final in 2003.

His downfall began in Nagpur match ODI where he was withdrawn from the team. Then his consistent failures went side by side with the consistent failures of the Indian team, which was at its best in the upto 2003. The ban of 6 matches did the plot. Rahul Dravid became the captain which led to the remarkable revival of the team. The odd 20-30 runs didn't help Saurav and he was dropped from the team in October 2005. Seeing his then good performance in the English County Season and domestic cricket he was recalled to the team in December 2006. On January 12th 2007 he was recalled for the one day squad as well, where India play host to West Indies and Sri Lanka in a one day tournament. On January 21st, Ganguly hit a match winning 98 against the West Indies.
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Anil Kumble

Full name: Anil Kumble
Nickname: Jumbo, Kumbles
Born: October 17, 1970, Bangalore, Karnataka
Major teams: India, ACC Asian XI, Karnataka, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Surrey
Education: Mechanical Engineer from R.V. College of Engineering

Batting style: Right-hand bat
Bowling style: Leg break googly

Test debut: India v England at Manchester - Aug 9-14, 1990

ODI debut: India v Sri Lanka at Sharjah - Apr 25, 1990

1996 - Wisden cricketer of the year 1996

PROFILE
He is one of those rare personalities in the cricket world who has the qualities of both a great player and a great person. Though stardom has always evaded Kumble, he has never felt sad or disappointed. Every delivery he bowls is with a new spirit and enthusiasm and onfeild behaviour is an example for others. His record list, which is a never ending list, speaks of him. In 1999 he became the first and the only Indian player to take all the 10 wickets in an innings, the feat performed only once before by Jim Laker back in 1955. Its Anil only who holds the Indian record of the most number of wickets in both ODI and test. Kumble also owns the Indian record of the most the test wins by a bowler.....disheartened

Anil Kumble who hails from Banglore in Karnataka, has his parental background in village Kumble situated in the Kasargod district of Kerala. After doing mechanical engineering from R.V. college of engineering he decided to take up cricket as his profession. He made his debut as a right arm medium pacer but soon established himself as a leg spinner. Due to this very reason, his bowls are nearer to the medium pace speed. By the year 1992 he had become a regular member of the national team owing to some spectacular regular performances.

The season 1995-96 was a golden period as Kumble's ODI perfomance was awesome. He took 61 wickets at an average of 20.24 and strike rate of just 4.06. It was same year in which the World cup was held in Asia. Owing to such great performance he was also named as the Wisden Cricketer of the year.

Anil Kumble is rather an unorthodox leg spinner. His deliveries have more of speed and less turn. With a clever mix of top-spinners, googlies, leg-breaks, flight and a variation of pace he has ability to frighten the best batsmen of the world. His flipper is one deadly deliveries which rather than hanging in the air speeds up after hitting the ground. His bowling ability can been seen by the no. of players he has dismissed by LBW's.

After arrival of Harbhajan Singh, Anil Kumble has been sidelined as a test player. He has been regularly been dropped from the ODI team though his place in the test squad has been firmly held by him. Even then he has been able to make to the Indian world cup squads in 1999, 2003 and now even in cricket world cup 2007. Recently he also announced that world cup would be his last ODI tournament.
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Zaheer Khan

Full name: Zaheer Khan
Nickname: Zak
Born: October 7, 1978, Shrirampur, Maharashtra
Major teams: India, ACC Asian XI, Baroda, Surrey, Worcestershire

Batting style: Right-hand bat
Bowling style: Left-arm fast-medium

Test debut: India v Bangladesh at Dhaka - Nov 10-13, 2000

ODI debut: India v Kenya at Nairobi (Gym) - Oct 3, 2000

Twenty20: Debut India v South Africa at Johannesburg - Dec 1, 2006

PROFILE
Zaheer Khan has been one of the best findings of the Indian team. Zaheer who made his international debut in 2001, left his engineering studies in between to pursue a career in cricket. Showing great skills at the national arena, Zaheer was selected in 2000 for the first intake of the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore. Soon he made his international debut in both test and ODI in the same year.

Zaheer's impressive debut in the ICC Knockout, when two yorkers in three balls speared into the off stumps of Kenyan batsmen, heightened people's expectations. He lived to these expectations and took India to the finals of the world cup 2003. He ended the world cup as the fourth highest wicket taker with 18 wickets from 11 matches at an average of 20.

Zaheer holds the world record for the highest Test score by a number 11 when he scored 75 for India v Bangladesh in Dhaka, 2004. His partnership with Sachin Tendulkar, which produced 133 runs is an Indian-record for the tenth-wicket. Also he hit 4 sixes off the last 4 bowls of the innings to Henry Olonga in Jodhpur which unveils his other potent dimension.

Zaheer Khan has the rare courage to bowl to all batsmen with the same aggressiveness and vigor. He has the talent to swing the ball both ways off the wicket and swing the old ball at the same pace. But after a hamstring injury in late 2003, Zaheer has lost both his pace and place in the team to the new pace generation. But a great English County Season, 2006 and Ranji Trophy, 2006 has got him a place in the national team of which he made the most. Now he is sure to be part of the Indian team for 2007 world cup. Good Luck Zaheer!
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