Cricket World Cup Final 2011
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| Event | 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup | ||||||||
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| Date | 2 April 2011 | ||||||||
| Venue | Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai | ||||||||
| Man of the Match | MS Dhoni | ||||||||
| Man of the Tournment | Yuvraj Singh | ||||||||
| Umpires | Simon Taufel and Aleem Dar[1] | ||||||||
| Attendance | 42,000 | ||||||||
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The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup Final was played between India and Sri Lanka at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on 2 April 2011. This was the 10th ICC Cricket World Cup. India won the match by six wickets,[2] its second World Cup victory, having previously won in 1983.[3] India became the third nation to have won the World Cup more than once, along with Australia and the West Indies.[3] This was the first World Cup where both the finalists were Asian teams. This was the second time in World Cup history that a host nation won the World Cup Final and the first time to win on their home ground. Sri Lanka was a co-host when it won the 1996 Cup, but the final match was played in Lahore, Pakistan.[4] In the stadium, the match was watched by 33,000 spectators and on TV, in India alone, the final was watched by 67.6 million viewers although another estimate put the figure at 135 million. The matches were also broadcast live on ESPN Star Sports' website and state-run Doordarshan and DD1, which reaches more than 90% of the country’s 1.21 billion population.
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Prior to this match, India and Sri Lanka had met each other six times in World Cup history with Sri Lanka ahead with four wins and two defeats. In One Day Internationals, India led Sri Lanka with 67 victories against 50 victories for Sri Lanka, while 11 matches had ended with no result.[5]
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