Cricket World Cup 2007 final: Cricket World Cup 2007 final was played between the finalists of 1996 World Cup, Australia and Sri Lanka. Cricket World Cup 2007 final was a rain curtailed match and was of 38 overs only. Australia won the toss in the Cricket World Cup 2007 final against Sri Lanka and decided to bat first. Opening batsman and wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist was in a blazing form and scored 149 runs off just 104 balls with 13 fours and 8 sixes. Matthew Hayden, Ricky Ponting and Andrew Symonds played useful innings to take Australia to a massive 281.
Sri Lanka, in reply chased the total bravely, as veteran batsman Sanath Jayasuriya scored 63 runs off 67 balls and shared a century stand for the second wicket with Kumar Sangakkara, who scored 54 off just 52 balls. But as soon as these two departed, Sri Lankans seemed to lose their way and lost the Cricket World Cup 2007 final by 53 runs.
Though, Sri Lanka lost the Cricket World Cup 2007 final by a big margin, still authorities were questioned as Sri Lankans have to play most part of their innings under dark. The flood lights were not installed in the stadium. This incident tainted the image of Cricket World Cup 2007 West Indies.
Official Cricket World Cup 2007 song: Official Cricket World Cup 2007 song was titled "THE GAME OF LOVE AND UNITY". The song was sung by Jamaican-born Shaggy, Barbadian entertainer Rupee and Trinidadian Faye-Ann Lyons. Cricket World Cup 2007 song became popular overnight and Cricket World Cup 2007 song was acclaimed all over the globe. Cricket World Cup 2007 song was aimed at global unity, peace and togetherness.
Revenue wise, Cricket World Cup 2007 West Indies, or officially speaking ICC Cricket World Cup 2007, was not a big hit, as the advent of T20 Cricket made people a bit disinterested in ODIs. Also, due to the poor performance of West Indian team, the local crowd was not much interested in the matches of ICC Cricket World Cup 2007. The weather was also not Cricket friendly. Due to this, some games of Cricket World Cup 2007 West Indies were curtailed. Many teams, including India lost their captain after the world cup debacle. Rahul Dravid was the Indian captain and he was removed from captaincy and wicketkeeper batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni was made the Indian captain.
Overall, Cricket World Cup 2007 West Indies was not a flop, neither a hit. ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 would be remembered as the first hattrick of any international Cricket team to win 3 World Cups in a row. Also, ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 would be remembered for bringing the World Cup to the group of Islands – West Indies.
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