After the release of the tournament's Official Song titled The Game of Love and Unity, the voices of Jamaican-born Shaggy, Barbadian entertainer Rupee and Trinidadian Faye-Ann Lyons are filling the airwaves across the Caribbean and the world. After months of planning and creation, ICC Cricket World Cup West Indies 2007 Inc. proudly unveiled the ..For more videos visit at :http://mamunk2.blogspot.comread more | digg story
Cricket is an international sport and has been around for hundreds of years. The first Cricket World Cup was organized in England in 1975. Since then, the Cricket World Cup tournament is being organized by the International Cricket Council (ICC), the sport’s governing body, after every four years. According to the ICC, the ICC Cricket World Cup is ‘the most important tournament and the pinnacle of achievement in the sport’.
The 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup is currently being held in the Caribbean islands from March 13 to April 28, 2007. The 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup’s official logo features a person stumping wickets with a ball in front of a palm tree, commemorating West Indies as the major host. The official mascot of 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup is an orange raccoon called “Mello” and the official song of this year’s Cricket World Cup, “The Game of Love and Unity”, has been sung by Shaggy, Rupee and Faye-Ann Lyons. This year’s ICC Cricket World Cup also marks a r
The ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 matches will commence from Tuesday in West Indies while the Opening Ceremony is just a few hours aways.
The cricket tournament is bigger than ever, with a total of 16 teams contesting 51 matches, over a period of 47 days.
Millions of cricket fans worldwide will be getting hooked to YouTube Videos, Cricket Blogs and Websites for live cricket scores, match video
World cup cricket carnival begins with celebrations.Amidst the 10,000 spectators present at the stadiumand 150 crore were watching on television the muchawaited carnival has begun now.West Indian all-rounder Sir Garfield Sobers on behalfof the west Indies declared the 9th ICC Cricket worldcup officially open.The opening ceremony cost around $2.5 billion was fillwith beautiful songs and dances of around 2500 performers.The first match of the cricket carnival which will last47 days is between westindies and pakistan on tuesday.Various groups in which Teams are divided :Group AAustraliaNetherlandsScolandSouth AfricaGroup BBangladeshBermudaIndiaSri LankaGroup CCanadaEnglandKenyaNew ZealandGroup DIrelandPakistanWest IndiesZimbabwe
The opening ceremony the 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup is on 11 March 2007, that is today !The official website is http://www.cricketworldcup.com/ , but it just redirects to http://cricketworldcup.indya.com/ Does this happen only in India ? Or does it go to indya.com all over the world ?And if you click the top banner in cricketworldcup.indya.com where it says www.cricketworldcup.com , it just open the sponsor's page - Maruti Udyog.Anyway, moving on to the more important things .The event schedule : Match Schedules For a printable copy of this schedule, click here for the pdf file of the schedule . *Note: All matches start at 0930 local time (1330GMT except Jamaica which is 1430 GMT). Warm Up Matches Date Group ATrelawny, Jamaica Group BSt. Vincent Group CTrinidad & Tobago Group DBarbados Mon 05 Mar West Indies vs Kenya England vs Bermuda
The opening ceremony for the next ICC Cricket World Cup will be on March 11 2007 i.e.
in about 18+ hours from now. This event is hosted by West Indies for the first time.
There will be total of 51 matches played in this tournament. The Greenfield Stadium,
Trelawny, Jamaica will host the Opening Ceremony. The Official Song for this World
Cup is "The Game of Love and Unity" by Jamaican-born Shaggy, Barbadian entertainer
Rupee and Trinidadian Faye-Ann Lyons.
Contest
is between 16 nations divided into four groups of four teams each. The top two teams
from each group will compete in "Super 8" format from which the semi-finalists will
be selected. The Winner of Final will get the Title of "World Cup Cricket Champion"
along with the beautiful cup.
Being a Mega event it would be covered by the world media. This event will be telecasted
in over 200 countries and expected number of viewers are estimated to be more than
two billion. This event
