2011 Cricket World Cup: The date of 2nd April is the most special for Indian cricket. This is the day when the Indian cricket team won the ODI World Cup title for the second time, ending a drought of 28 years. Earlier, Team India was successful in winning the World Cup title in the year 1983 under the captaincy of Kapil Dev. Even though 13 years have passed since the Indian cricket team won the 2011 World Cup, when the date of April 2 comes, the memories of this glorious victory become fresh in the hearts of the fans.
India became world champion by defeating Sri Lanka
In the year 2011, on April 2, the Indian team won the World Cup title for the second time by defeating Sri Lanka by 6 wickets in the final match played at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. Team India, captained by Mahendra Singh Dhoni, had changed the history of the World Cup with this victory. The Indian team became the first team in the history of cricket to win the ODI World Cup on home soil.
India won this exciting match by 6 wickets
In this match played at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, the Sri Lankan team won the toss and came to bat first. Thanks to the century innings of experienced batsman Mahela Jayawardene, the Sri Lankan team had scored 274 runs in the allotted 50 overs against India. The Indian team, which came in reply to Sri Lanka’s score of 275 runs, had a bad start. Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar were out early. After this, Gautam Gambhir and Virat Kohli took over the team. Virat Kohli had scored 35 runs. Whereas, Gambhir had played an inning of 97 runs. On the other hand, Indian captain MS Dhoni led the team to victory by scoring 91 runs facing 79 balls.
MS Dhoni had hit the winning six
In this final match, MS Dhoni led the team to victory by hitting a long six off Nuwan Kulasekara in the 49th over of the Indian innings and won the World Cup title for the second time, ending the drought of 28 years. Cricket fans have not been able to forget this winning shot till date and this victory had brought a big change in the Indian team. Due to which today the Indian team is considered number-1 in all three formats.
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