ICC World Cup 2011: India, South Africa, face to face in World Cup

India is among the favorites to win the ICC World Cup in 2011 set out in co-host in 2011. South Africa is expected to mount a serious challenge for the title. How have these computers together in previous editions of the event?

SA were readmitted to international cricket in 1990 after they were banned by the International Criminal Court in 1970 for the policy of apartheid practiced against blacks in their country.

His first chance to play in the ICC World Cup came in 1992 when the event was held in Australia. India and South Africa had its first meeting at the Adelaide Oval in a match reduced by rain to 30 overs aside.

The South Africans won the toss and India, he managed to bat 180 / 6 in the back of the captain Azharuddin 79, with the help of cameos from Manjrekar (28) and Kapil Dev (42). For South Africa, Donald and Kuiper caught two wickets each.

SA chased the target with five balls to spare, thanks to the opening of a stand of 128 between Peter and Kirsten Hudson.There was a flurry of windows once Hudson was out shot by Srinath, but in the end, six wicket win was a cruiser, grazing pattern home.For Wessels team India, Srinath, Kapil and Prabhakar took a ring each.

In the next edition of the cup, hosted in the subcontinent in 1996, India and SA were placed in different groups, and are not, with South Africa crashed after losing to West Indies in the quarterfinals.

The parties met with a world cup in 1999 in England, where they were placed in the same preliminary group. In the match at Hove, Brighton, India won the toss and batted on a stand first.Building opening 67 runs between Ganguly and Tendulkar, the Indians reached 253 / 5 in their allotted 50 overs. Ganguly fell three short of a century and Dravid 54, in an innings lost momentum in the slog acquisitions after Ganguly was run on a brilliant piece of fielding of Jonty Rhodes. Klusener contributed three windows to reduce India to what might be said that some 30 runs short of comfort.

Klusener, Rhodes, Cronje made useful contributions, such as South Africa reached their destination quite comfortably in the 48 th over, Kallis showing the way with 96, before it has run in 46 º more. Srinath has two windows, while Kumble, Ganguly and Agarkar took one apiece in a bowling alley largely unimpressive performance.

World cup of the day, co-hosted by South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya, and in a tournament in which India did brilliantly to reach the final, South Africa could not make it past the group stage at the height the label of chokers who by then had won. in the event, India and South Africa do not occur in this edition.

Thereafter, in the 2007 World Cup, it was the turn of India to drown in the group stage losing to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, ensuring another opportunity lost to try to improve his record against South Africa World Cup.

Therefore, South Africa has played twice in India ODI World Cups, winning comfortably on both occasions. Is it different this time, with India enjoying home-field advantage? We have no time to find out.