Dhoni-Got to win it for Sachin

With a little over 2 weeks to go for the most awaited Cricketing carnival in the world, Indian skipper Dhoni and his band of merry men are high on hopes. Harbhajan Singh, Yuvraj Singh and Gautam Gambhir appeared observant at a promo here in Delhi yesterday.

And captain man Dhoni had something to tell to his teammates – take the “pressure” of playing in the backyard as additional responsibility and privilege and consistency is bound to be rewarded in the end. Dhoni reminded his players of their chief goal they have this time- we need to win the World Cup for Sachin Tendulkar.

Dhoni is only the third player after Gautam Gambhir and Harbhajan to express this desire as this is the last Cricket world Cup Master Blaster will be playing.

Dhoni is assured of the rapport the players share in the dressing room and said the team stands a great likelihood of clinching the cup if they perform to their potential.

ICC World Cup 2011 Finale in India

Cricket-crazy nation India is all set to host the 10^th ICC World Cup 2011 along with neighboring countries Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Scheduled to be played between February to early April 2011, the biggest cricket carnival in every four years, will see fourteen national teams vie for the coveted cup. Terror threats had earlier forced ICC to pull out Pakistan from the

list of host countries in the sub-continent.Bangladesh will be hosting the tournament opener on 19^th February at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur along with eight other matches, while Sri Lanka gets to host a dozen matches. India, on the other hand, will be hosting the largest number of the World Cup Matches to be played in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata Nagpur, New Delhi and Mohali.

Cricket happy India gets to host a whopping 29 matches out of the proposed 49 including the most awaited grand finale at Wankhede, Mumbai. Mumbai is also ICC headquarters for the entire series.