*The ICC world cup tournament 2011 has been associated with the number six in many ways: • During the League matches teams of each Group had to play against six other teams. • Sri Lanka finished their innings with a six wicket loss. **• India won the tournament with six wickets in hand. • Sri Lanka finished their innings with a massive six. • India equaled that feat by hitting a glorious six to lift the cup! • Mahela Jayawardene and Nuwan Kulasekara were associated in a stand of 66 for the sixth wicket.
• The Wankhede Stadium is the best for the sixth wicket in a World Cup final, surpassing the 32 between Michael Bevan and Stuart Law for Australia against Sri Lanka at Lahore on March 17, 1996. • Dhoni completed his 6,000 (6 x 1000) runs in ODIs. He thus crossed Six others including Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Mohammad Azharuddin, Yuvraj Singh and Virender Sehwag. • Jayawardene is the sixth batsman to score a hundred in a World Cup final. • The game was played on the 2nd April and if you look at the corresponding numbers of the date and month they add up to six. • After a hectic and hard-worked five day week, we had the wonderful Game played on the sixth day. • Hitting a six is a great ambition to every cricketer. • Each ‘over’ in the game consists of six balls. • Last but not the least, the game was played in Mumbai (with six letters in its name). Did you say "enough with the number crunching; let us get on to work"? I Agree!*
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