Ireland upset England in Cricket World Cup 2011 league match

Minnows are known to cause a few surprises in World Cup Cricket matches and this time its no different. On Wednesday Ireland beat England by 3 wickets in a Group B match. After surprising Pakistan in the previous edition of the World Cup Ireland gave the same treatment to England. Kevin O'Brien smashed a powerful century to help Ireland win the match.

"When you are 111-5, I just said to myself, we could just potter around and get 220 off 50 overs for eight or nine and the game would have been pretty boring to watch and it wouldn't have been anything to watch on TV," a grinning O'Brien said, clutching his man of the match trophy.


"I just chanced my arm and said I'm going to be as positive as I can and I got a few away and didn't look back really."

Englands batting was good but the fielding and catching was pathetic. Have England blow away their chances of qualifying for the next stage of the ICC World Cup 2011? Only time will tell because they still have to face Bangldesh.
So tonight the Irish will party but the Englishmen would want to forget the day.

Brief scores: Ireland 329/7 in 49.1 overs (KO'Brien 113, Cusack 47; Swann 3-47) beat England 327 for 8 in 50 overs (Trott 92, Bell 81; Mooney 4-63) by 3 wickets.

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ICC WORLD CUP 2011 - Teams and Groups

                             Teams

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Group A                                             Group B
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Australia                                             India

Pakistan                                             South Africa

New Zealand                                     England

Sri Lanka                                          West Indies

Zimbabwe                                         Bangladesh

Canada                                             Ireland

Kenya                                              Netherlands

2011 CRICKET WORLD CUP SCHEDULE


Sat Feb 19        1st Match, Group B - India v Bangladesh                   Mirpur

14:00 IST     
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Sun Feb 20        2nd Match, Group A - Kenya v New Zealand           Chennai

09:30 IST
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Sun Feb 20
14:30 IST           3rd Match, Group A - Sri Lanka v Canada              Hambantota
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Mon Feb 21
 14:30 IST          4th Match, Group A - Australia v Zimbabwe             Ahmedabad 
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Tue Feb 22
14:30 IST             5th Match, Group B - England v Netherlands               Nagpur 
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Wed Feb 23
14:30 IST              6th Match, Group A - Kenya v Pakistan                  Hambantota
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Thu Feb 24
14:30 IST             7th Match, Group B - South Africa v West Indies             Delhi
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Fri Feb 25
09:30 IST              8th Match, Group A - Australia v New Zealand             Nagpur
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Fri Feb 25
14:00 IST              9th Match, Group B - Bangladesh v Ireland                    Mirpur
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Sat Feb 26
14:30 IST            10th Match, Group A - Sri Lanka v Pakistan                   Colombo
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Sun Feb 27
14:30 IST             11th Match, Group B - India v England                           Bangalore 
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Mon Feb 28
 09:30 IST             12th Match, Group A - Canada v Zimbabwe                   Nagpur
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Mon Feb 28
14:30 IST              13th Match, Group B - Netherlands v West Indies           Delhi
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Tue Mar 1
14:30 IST             14th Match, Group A - Sri Lanka v Kenya                   Colombo
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Wed Mar 2
14:30 IST             15th Match, Group B - England v Ireland                      Bangalore
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Thu Mar 3
09:30 IST             16th Match, Group B - Netherlands v South Africa      Chandigarh 
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Thu Mar 3
14:30 IST             17th Match, Group A - Canada v Pakistan                    Colombo
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Fri Mar 4
 09:30 IST           18th Match, Group A - New Zealand v Zimbabwe       Ahmedabad
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Fri Mar 4
14:00 IST            19th Match, Group B - Bangladesh v West Indies         Mirpur
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Sat Mar 5
14:30 IST           20th Match, Group A - Sri Lanka v Australia               Colombo 
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Sun Mar 6
09:30 IST          21st Match, Group B - England v South Africa             Chennai
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Sun Mar 6
14:30 IST         22nd Match, Group B - India v Ireland                        Bangalore
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Mon Mar 7
14:30 IST          23rd Match, Group A - Canada v Kenya                     Delhi
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Tue Mar 8
14:30 IST         24th Match, Group A - New Zealand v Pakistan      Pallekele 
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Wed Mar 9
 14:30 IST      25th Match, Group B - India v Netherlands                 Delhi 
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Thu Mar 10
14:30 IST       26th Match, Group A - Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe      Pallekele
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Fri Mar 11
09:30 IST       27th Match, Group B - Ireland v West Indies        Chandigarh
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Fri Mar 11
14:00 IST       28th Match, Group B - Bangladesh v England        Chittagong
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Sat Mar 12   
14:30 IST       29th Match, Group B - India v South Africa          Nagpur 
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Sun Mar 13
09:30 IST      30th Match, Group A - Canada v New Zealand    Mumbai
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Sun Mar 13
14:30 local    31st Match, Group A - Australia v Kenya              Bangalore
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Mon Mar 14
09:00 IST     32nd Match, Group B - Bangladesh v Netherlands  Chittagong
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Mon Mar 14
14:30 IST     33rd Match, Group A - Pakistan v Zimbabwe          Pallekele
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Tue Mar 15
14:30 IST     34th Match, Group B - Ireland v South Africa           Kolkata
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Wed Mar 16
14:30 IST    35th Match, Group A - Australia v Canada             Bangalore 
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Thu Mar 17
14:30 IST     36th Match, Group B - England v West Indies       Chennai
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Fri Mar 18
09:30 IST     37th Match, Group B - Ireland v Netherlands              Kolkata
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Fri Mar 18
14:30 IST     38th Match, Group A - New Zealand v Sri Lanka     Mumbai
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Sat Mar 19
09:00 IST     39th Match, Group B - Bangladesh v South Africa    Mirpur
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Sat Mar 19
14:30 IST     40th Match, Group A - Australia v Pakistan           Colombo
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Sun Mar 20
09:30 IST      41st Match, Group A - Kenya v Zimbabwe         Kolkata
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Sun Mar 20
14:30 IST     42nd Match, Group B - India v West Indies       Chennai
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Wed Mar 23
14:00 IST      Quarter Final -A1 v B4                            Mirpur
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Thu Mar 24
14:30 IST      Quarter Final -  A2 v B3                    Ahmedabad
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Fri Mar 25
14:00 IST      Quarter Final - A3 v B2                         Mirpur 
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Sat Mar 26
14:30 IST     Quarter Final - A4 v B1                         Colombo
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Tue Mar 29
14:30 IST       1st Semi Final                                      Colombo
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Wed Mar 30
14:30 IST      2nd Semi Final                                   Chandigarh
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Sat Apr 2
14:30 IST      ICC WORLD CUP FINAL 2011        Mumbai

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