Coincidences in ICC Cricket World Cup 2011

Since the Cricket World Cup was being held in India, Indian team was in great touch, this was possibly the last tournament for Sachin Tendulkar (though I would like to see him go on and on...), everyone wanted to witness an Indian victory.

But sometimes, rather uneventful events throw up interesting coincidences or patterns and looking in hindsight, following are such events in this World Cup.

1. Sehwag scoring a score of 175 against Bangladesh in the opening match of the tournament. This was exactly the same score scored by Kapil Dev in the 1983 World cup match v/s Zimbabwe.

2. India tied a match with England. MS Dhoni as a captain had a tied match in IPL, World Cup T20 and Champion League in the editions which he won.

3. After defeating Pakistan, I personally saw a pattern and posted on facebook here "India defeating teams in EXACTLY the same order in which they were crowned champions in the past - West Indies (75,79), Australia (87), Pakistan (92)....wasnt SL the winner in 96 ;)"

4. In the meanwhile, another coincidence came up which said that calenders of the year 1983 and 2011 are same.

5. And a day before the final, SMS forward told me that all captains whose last or first name started with 'S' were being evicted - Shahid Afridi, Strauss, Smith, Sammy and so next in line is Sangkarra.\

6. I had posted this on facebook before the world cup

Cricket WC - Sachin - India

1. 1992 - did not open - out after first round
2. 1996 - opener, highest scorer - losing semi-finalist
3. 1999 - did not open - lost in super 6s
4. 2003 - opener, highest scorer - losing finalist
5. 2007 - did not open - out after first round
6. 2011 - will open....!! :)

Though, it was updated after the WC as Sachin was India's highest scorer, tournament's second highest scorer and of course, India WON!

Height of copy-paste

Though I am not really a big fan of our National Daily The Times of India, but the least I expect from this plagiarism!

But this time, they have exceeded my expectations and have done exactly that.

Article in TOI, Mumbai, Dec 21, 2010 - http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=TOINEW&BaseHref=TOIM%2F2010%2F12%2F21&PageLabel=25&EntityId=Ar02502&ViewMode=HTML&GZ=T

Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachin_Tendulkar#Early_years_and_personal_life

And yes, Wiki had it up first as I had almost by-hearted the Sachin Tendulkar page :)

P.S. - Both links were last accessed on Dec 22,2010 at the time of writing this.