India's sweetest Memories - 2011 Cricket World Cup

 

On this day in 2011, MS Dhoni & co gave India a billion reasons to smile.

Sri Lanka 274/6 50 overs
India 277/4 48.2 overs
Date 2 April 2011
Venue Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, India
Player of the Match: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Ind)
Player of the series: Yuvraj Singh (Ind)
Umpires Simon Taufel and Aleem Dar
Attendance 42,000

April 2, 2011. Seven years have gone since Mahendra Singh Dhoni's famous six fixed Sri Lanka's destiny and scripted India's history.

The 2011 Cricket World Cup Final was a One Day International (ODI) coordinate played among India and Sri Lanka at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, on 2 April 2011. The zenith of the tenth version of the World Cup, it was the first occasion when these two groups had met each other at this phase in the competition history. India dominated the game by six wickets—its subsequent World Cup win after the 1983 competition—and turned into the third group to have won the title more than once, after Australia (1987, 1999, 2003 and 2007) and the West Indies (1975 and 1979). Both groups had advanced through three phases to arrive at the last. India had won all the matches to that point with the exception of the game against South Africa, and against England, which finished in a tie. Sri Lanka had won everything except one match against Pakistan. The Sri Lanka commander Kumar Sangakkara decided to bat first in the wake of winning the hurl. The group scored gradually until the seventeenth over when they lost both their openers. Sangakkara included 62 runs with Mahela Jayawardene before being excused for 48 runs. Despite the fact that wickets continued falling toward one side, Jayawardene scored 103 runs in 88 balls; he was associated with an organization of 66 runs with Thisara Perera. The pair took Sri Lanka's aggregate to 274 runs at the end of the innings.

In answer, India lost its opener Virender Sehwag in the first over of the innings. Sachin Tendulkar, as well, got out with hardly a pause in between. The following arrangement of batsmen, Gautam Gambhir and Virat Kohli, included 83 runs in 15 overs before the last got out in the 22nd over. India chief MS Dhoni, advancing himself up the request, joined Gambhir and the two of them included 109 runs, an Indian record in a World Cup last. Gambhir got out for 97 runs in the 42nd over. India pursued down the aggregate and dominated the game by four wickets in the 49th over. Dhoni was pronounced the "man of the match" for scoring 91 runs while his comrade Yuvraj Singh was granted the "man of the series".The coordinate was viewed by around 42,000 onlookers at the scene and around 135 million watchers on TV in India. This was the second time in World Cup history that a host country won the last and the first run through to win on their home ground.