South Africa coach Corrie van Zyl felt India have lost World Cup home advantage due to the Indian Premier League, largely because of the experience of playing conditions that the world’s top players have gained and their dealing with the intensity of the most passionate crowds in the cricketing world.

“India has traditionally been a difficult place to tour but more recently teams have learnt to win in Indian and sub-continent conditions,” he said.

“India in particular, where most of our preliminary matches will be played, is a wonderful place to play cricket as the people love the game and the support is phenomenal. Teams have learnt to embrace the atmosphere rather than be wary of it and we are looking forward to playing in these packed stadiums,” he said.

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With just six months to go before the first ball of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 is bowled, the ICC has announced the schedule of warm-up matches for the flagship event which will be staged in Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka.

The 14 warm-up matches will be played across the three host countries from 12 to 18 February 2011 with Bengaluru, Chennai, Chittagong, Colombo, Dhaka, Nagpur and Pallekele acting as the host cities.

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Australia Under-19s vs Sri Lanka Under-19s Semi Final Highlights – ICC Under-19s World Cup 2010

Pakistan Under-19s vs West Indies Under-19s Semi Final Highlights – ICC Under-19s World Cup 2010

Sri Lanka Under-19s vs South Africa Under-19s Quarter Final Highlights – ICC Under-19s World Cup 2010

India Under-19s vs Pakistan Under-19s Quarter Final Highlights – ICC Under-19s World Cup 2010

India U-19 vs England U-19 Highlights – ICC Under-19 World Cup 2010

Sri Lanka U-19 vs Zimbabwe U-19 Highlights Match 12 – ICC Under-19 World Cup 2010

England U-19 vs Hong Kong U-19 Highlights Match 8 – ICC Under-19 World Cup 2010

India U-19 vs Afghanistan U-19 1st Match Highlights – ICC Under-19 World Cup 2010

1996 World Cup Quarter Final – A classic in every sense. Action packed, great hitting, sledging, great bowling, this match had everything.

• India vs Pakistan : 1996 World Cup Quarter Final – Highlights
• India vs Pakistan : Ajay Jadeja vs Waqar Younis in 1996 World Cup
• Aamer Sohail vs Venkatesh Prasad : 1996 World Cup

India vs Pakistan : A brilliant catch by Sachin to get rid of Inzamam

Anil Kumble Perfect 10 – 1999 2nd Test at Ferozshah Kotla, Delhi. Only the second instance of a bowler picking up 10 wickets in an innings.

India vs Pakistan : T20 World Cup 2007 final – last over

India vs Pakistan : T20 World Cup 2007 final – Highlights

Full highlights of the 1996 World Cup between India and Pakistan. This game is a classic, not just because its India vs Pakistan in a World Cup. First Navjot Singh Sidhu played a brilliant innings of 93, but it was Ajay Jadeja’s 25 ball 45 that really pushed the score to 287. In those 25 balls Jadeja practically slaughtered Waqar Younis.

If all this was not enough Pakistan , Saeed Anwar and Aamer Sohail, started the chase brilliantly, scoring 84 of the first 10 overs. In the 15th over with Sohail, on top off Indian bowling and having just hit a boundary, lost his cool and said to Venkatesh Prasad that he will hit him for four again in the same region. Prasad replied by dismissing Sohail of the very next ball, from here on the game was always going to be India’s.

Ajay Jadeja well pretty much raping Pakistani attack, Waqar Younis in particular in the quarter final of the 1996 World Cup.

A memorable match – a superb performance by both sides. But the Tendulkar innings was truly amazing.

The one major concern for Sri Lanka, is their middle order which sustained a horrid collapse of 5 for 40 in the last six overs. It didn’t cost them against Pakistan, thanks to Lasith Malinga’s deadly death-bowling, but it is one area that needs improvement if they are to beat firstly Ireland, then New Zealand and eventually the World Cup. Sri Lanka should get to the semis easily from here on.

Ireland would be looking for another upset win, and a victory for the Irish could spoil the party for the Lankans. It going to be an interesting game to watch.

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Teams

Sri Lanka: (probable) 1 Sanath Jayasuriya, 2 Tillakaratne Dilshan, 3 Kumar Sangakkara (wk, capt), 4 Mahela Jayawardene, 5 Jehan Mubarak, 6 Chamara Silva, 7 Angelo Mathews, 8 Nuwan Kulasekara, 9 Ajantha Mendis, 10 Lasith Malinga, 11 Muttiah Muralitharan

Ireland: (probable) 1 William Porterfield (capt), 2 Gary Wilson, 3 Niall O’Brien (wk), 4 Andre Botha, 5 Kevin O’Brien, 6 John Mooney, 7 Alex Cusack, 8 Trent Johnston, 9 Kyle McCallan, 10 Regan West, 11 Pete Connell

Timing

Sunday, June 14,  Start time 1330 local (1230 GMT)

Razzaq needs to provide the much needed spark and ballistic hitting that Pakistan desperately needs. He along with Lance Klusner was the original finisher of the game in the early part of this decade. His big hitting in the death overs of an ODI is well known and Razzaq will need to provide the spark that Pakistan is so desperately missing.

New Zealand on the other hand seems to have ample big hitters in good form. McCullum, Taylor and Redmond all have come good so far. With Ireland also in their group, the Kiwis would be fancing their chances for a semi final berth.

Teams

Pakistan: (probable) 1 Ahmed Shehzad, 2 Kamran Akmal (wk), 3 Shoaib Malik, 4 Misbah-ul-Haq, 5 Younis Khan (capt), 6 Abdul Razzaq, 7 Shahid Afridi, 8 Fawad Alam, 9 Umar Gul, 10 Mohammad Aamer, 11 Saeed Ajmal

New Zealand: (probable) 1 Brendon McCullum (capt), 2 Aaron Redmond, 3 Martin Guptill, 4 Scott Styris, 5 Jacob Oram, 6 Peter McGlashan (wk), 7 James Franklin, 8 Neil Broom, 9 Nathan McCullum, 10 Ian Butler, 11 Kyle Mills

Timing

Saturday, June 13, Start time 1730 local (1630 GMT)

Timing

Saturday, June 13 Start time 1330 local (1230 GMT)