India became the first host nation to win the ICC Cricket World Cup by thrashing Sri Lanka by six wickets at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai on April 2.
India successfully chased a score of 250-plus (277 for four) in the Final of the ICC Cricket World Cup, outstripping the previous best of 245 for three off 46.2 overs by Sri Lanka against Australia at Lahore on March 17, 1996.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the Indian captain, led from the front, with a majestic unbeaten 91, guiding India to a convincing win while chasing a stiff target.
The tenth edition of the prestigious tournament gave Sachin Tendulkar his first World Cup title in six appearances since 1992.
A statistical review of the World Cup
Individual performance - Batting
Six players have recorded two centuries each - Sachin Tendulkar, Abraham de Villiers, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Upul Tharanga, Mahela Jayawardene and Ryan ten Doeschate. Overall, twenty four hundreds were witnessed in the tenth edition of the World Cup (the most in any competition). Kevin O'Brien's strike rate of 179.36 while scoring 113 off 63 balls against England at Bangalore on March 2 is the highest in an innings. His 50-ball hundred is the fastest in the history of the World Cup. Kevin's knock had 88 runs scored through boundaries - six sixes and thirteen fours - the most in an innings.
The only other batsman, apart from Virender Sehwag, to touch 150 was Andrew Strauss. He scored 158 off 145 balls against India at Bangalore on February 27, the highest by a captain in this competition.
Ross Taylor's match-winning majestic knock of an unbeaten 131 off 124 balls was embellished with seven sixes (the most by any batsman in the competition) and eight fours. Apart from recording the highest individual innings by a New Zealander, he was the only one to aggregate 300 runs in the competition - 324 in six innings at an average of 64.80.
Taylor's tally of fourteen sixes is the most by any batsman in the tenth edition of the World Cup.
Kumar Sangakkara scored his first century as captain in ODIs - 111 off 128 balls - against New Zealand at Mumbai on March 18. He has become the first captain/wicketkeeper in the history of the World Cup to register a hundred.
Among the batsmen with 300 runs or more in the competition, Sehwag's strike rate of 122.58 is the highest.
Tillakaratne Dilshan has topped the run-charts with 500 runs (ave.62.50), including two centuries and two fifties. Besides, three other batsmen scored 400 runs - Sachin Tendulkar (482), Kumar Sangakkara (465) and Jonathan Trott (422).
Individual performance - Bowling
Tillakaratne Dilshan, apart from top-scoring for Sri Lanka, also excelled as a bowler, claiming eight wickets at an average of 15.75 in nine games, his best being 3-1-4-4, (a career-best) against Zimbabwe at Pallekele on March 10. He also took six catches.
Spinner Imran Tahir of South Africa produced a strike rate of 16.9 (the best amongst the bowlers with at least ten wickets) while claiming fourteen wickets in only five matches at an average of 10.71. The economy rate was 3.79 - an outstanding achievement by any bowler playing in his debut series in ODIs/World Cup.
Shahid Afridi and Zaheer Khan have shared the bowling honours with 21 wickets each - both records for the respective countries at the World Cup. Four other bowlers have bagged 15 wickets or more - Tim Southee (18), Robin Peterson, Muttiah Muralitharan and Yuvraj Singh. Afridi's economy rate of 3.62 is the best among the bowlers with at least ten wickets in the tournament.
Two bowlers - West Indian, Kemar Roach and Sri Lankan Lasith Malinga have accomplished hat-tricks. Both the bowlers are the only ones to bag six wickets in an innings. Kemar Roach (6/27) against Netherlands at Delhi on February 28 and Lasith Malinga (6/38) against Kenya at Colombo, RPS on March 1.
All-round performance
Yuvraj Singh has justifiably been adjudged the Player of the Tournament for aggregating 362 runs (ave.90.50), claiming 15 wickets (ave.25.13) and taking 3 catches in 9 matches apart from splendid fielding, especially in the Final.
Yuvraj has created history by becoming the only all-rounder in the history of the World Cup to post a fifty and capture five wickets in an innings (50 + 5/31) against Ireland at Bangalore on March 6. Tillakaratne Dilshan had accomplished the double of a century (144) and bag (4/4) four wickets against Zimbabwe at Pallekele on March 10.
Team performances
Seventeen totals of 300 or more have been recorded in the 2011 edition of the World Cup - two each by India, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, South Africa, England and Ireland and one each by Australia, Netherlands, Pakistan, West Indies and Zimbabwe. India's 370 for four against Bangladesh at Dhaka on February 19 is the highest score by any team.
Of the three totals of less than 100, two have been recorded by Bangladesh - 58 against West Indies on March 4 and 78 against South Africa on March 19 - both at Dhaka. Kenya got out for 69 against New Zealand at Chennai on February 20.
A total of 2161 boundaries (1903 fours + 258 sixes) were recorded in the competition. India topped the run-aggregate charts, scoring 2371 runs for the loss of 62 wickets.
The top five teams hitting most sixes in the tenth edition of the World Cup are New Zealand (36), West Indies (33), India (29), Ireland (21) and South Africa (21).
India (96.64) have got the best run-rate, making 96.64 per 100 balls, followed by Sri Lanka's 94.60, Australia's 90.46, England's 88.96, South Africa's (88.31) and New Zealand's 88.14.
21333 runs have been scored in the ICC CWC. 19986 runs were scored by batsmen while 1347 runs were extras. 731 wickets fell in this competition.
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