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England v West Indies

MA Chidambaram Stadium,

Chepauk, Chennai

Thu Mar 17

09:00 GMT | 14:30 local

15:00 BDT

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Andrew Strauss, England

Andrew Strauss is a cricketer transformed from the slightly one-dimensional accumulatorwhose calm approach has been so invaluable in Test cricket since his debut in 2004. Sincereturning to the one-day outfit in April 2009, he has by his own admission enjoyed theopportunity to bat with a new sense of freedom, as showcased by his tally of 14 sixes in hislast 35 matches, compared with eight in 68 in his previous incarnation. He has developed apriceless ability to anchor the innings while still pushing along at a comfortable tempo.

Darren Sammy, West Indies

Darren Sammy bowler or allrounder in the team, but he is the captain of the team. His supporters say his head and heart are in right place and he is passionate about reviving West Indies cricket. And he is increasingly proving to be a valuable player in the ODI squad. In 2010, against Zimbabwe, he took eight wickets at 12.50 and at an economy rate of just 2.85 to play a major role in the series triumph. Later, against South Africa, he was the lone West Indian to have had a good series: he scored his runs at a strike-rate of 145.31, and registered the fastest ever half-century by a West Indian in the second ODI.

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33rd Match, Group A -

Pakistan v Zimbabwe

Pallekele International

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Mon Mar 14

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Shahid Afridi, Pakistan

Afridi is one of only three players who have scored over 5000 runs and picked up over 250 wickets in ODIs Forget the debate over whether Shahid Afridi will or should be captain of the ODI side; he remains the side’s most talismanic player, capable of changing any game in a trice. Over the years, it is Afridi’s leg-spin that has held him in better stead, providing not only a vital choke during the middle overs, but a serious wicket-taking threat. With the bat he remains as he was when he first arrived, capable of both ends of madness. Often he has threatened to become mature and sensible but it is generally a temporary state; don’t discount his two ODI hundreds in the Asia Cup last year, in his first matches as captain and also 2011 ICC World Cup.

Elton Chigumbura, Zimbabwe

Elton Chigumbura allrounder with the talent to alter the course of an innings with both bat and ball, Elton Chigumbura has not taken as naturally to the captaincy of the national side as many might have hoped. The weight of responsibility and niggling injuries appeared to sap the zip from his bowling and the adventure from his batting, and he has averaged 22 with the bat and 129 with the ball since taking the helm. Chigumbura’s potential is undoubted, however, and Zimbabwe will need him to get back to his electric best if they are to challenge the top teams at the World Cup.

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32nd Match, Group B -

Bangladesh v Netherlands

Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury

Stadium,

Chittagong

Mon Mar 14

03:30 GMT | 09:30 local

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Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladesh

Shakib Al Hasan has Initially picked in the Bangladesh team for his left-arm spin, Shakib AlHasan has graduated to becoming a key member of the national team with his all-round skills. He’s played a prominent role in reviving Bangladesh’s fortunes in both Testsand ODIs,contributing significantly with both bat and ball and even bearing the burden of captaincy. He oversaw a 4-0 whitewash of New Zealand in an ODI series at home, and led by example. ForBangladesh in the World Cup, much will depend on how he delivers.

Peter Borren, Netherlands

Borren’s World Cup experience extends to just three games.The chirpy leader of the side, Peter Borren’s smart batting and bustling medium pace make him the perfect utility player for a lesser World Cup team like Netherlands. He backs himself for the crucial role of finishing the innings from No. 6, where his quick running and his ability to nurdle into space offers just the kind of awkward irritation that defines his scrapping side.

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31st Match, Group A -

Australia v Kenya

M Chinnaswamy Stadium,

Bangalore

Sun Mar 13

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Ricky Ponting, Australia

Ponting has scored four centuries and six fifties in World Cups at an average of 48.03, which is significantly higher than his overall average of 42.75 A veteran of four World Cups, he starts the 2011 event second on the overall run-list behind Sachin Tendulkar. He began in 1996 as a No.3, scoring a century against West Indies and 45 in the final loss in a small collection. Three years later he increased his tally (359) and his average (39.33), but the closest he went to a defining innings was 69 as Steve Waugh's junior partner in the great escape against South Africa at Leeds. That all changed in 2003 when he capped the tournament with a brutal century in the final. Four years later he dominated again, registering 539 runs at 67.37 on the way to another title. Unbelievably, his worst result at the tournament is runner-up in 1996.

Jimmy Kamande, Kenya

Jimmy Kamande has had a varied career,and best player in the team starting as a seamer, reinventing himself as an offspinner after being reported for having a suspect action, and now emerging as something of an allrounder,albeit one not really good enough to warrant a place on either discipline alone. Recently appointed captain, his biggest challenge will be bringing together a disparate and disillusioned side.

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30th Match, Group A -

Canada v New Zealand

Wankhede Stadium,

Mumbai

Sun Mar 13

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Ashish Bagai, Canada

Ashish Bagai is Canada’s captain, wicketkeeper and most consistent top-order batsman.

Diminutive and light on his feet, Bagai remains a safe glove-man, but persistent knee trouble has slowed his running between the wickets. In a full-strength team, Bagai plays the role of anchor, rotating the strike and steadily accumulating his runs. An orthodox batsman, Bagai will nudge and nurdle his way out of a box rather than go for the big hit. A veteran of two previous World Cup campaigns, this will be his first time leading Canada on cricket’s biggest stage and in no less than the country of his birth.

Daniel Vettori, New Zealand

Daniel Vettori as the captain and best player in the team, Vettori is comfortably the most important man in New Zealand’s World Cup campaign. Opposition batsmen are often content to see him off and attack the fast bowlers, but New Zealand are at their best when Vettori is also outsmarting batsmen and taking wickets. On the subcontinental pitches, he must use his own bowling as an attacking option. He is also one of the more reliable batsmen in New Zealand’s order, although his impact in ODIs has not been as great as in Tests. He is the only man in the squad to have been to three previous World Cups, although he did not play a game in 1999.

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India v South Africa

Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium,

Jamtha, Nagpur

Sat Mar 12

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MS Dhoni,India

Dhoni’s most fruitful partnerships have come with Yuvraj Singh and Suresh Raina.MS Dhoni

captured the world’s attention with his big hundreds, full of big sixes, against Pakistan and Sri Lanka, but as the long-haired unknown kid from Jharkhand became the smooth-talking, sharp captain, the raw hitter with the bat gave way to a mature accumulator in the middle of India’s innings, providing the other big hitters in the side a buffer should they fail. It is not to say that he has given up on the fireworks entirely, just that he started using them more judiciously. For more than two years post the 2007 World Cup, Dhoni seemed to have worked out the pace, the structure, the furniture of batting in ODI, both while setting targets and chasing them. As a wicketkeeper, he has never been pretty, but he has evolved into an effective operator. A bright example of it is how he has eliminated the follow-through when standing up to the spinners, thus completing amazingly quick stumpings.

Graeme Smith South Africa

Graeme Smith is a prolific batsman, strong on the front and back foot. He has safe hands in the slips or the outfield but his most valuable asset now is the maturity and charisma he shows as a leader. Under Graeme Smith, South Africa have not won a piece of ICC silverware and the 2011 World Cup will be their last chance to do so, since Smith will step down after the event. He had played just 22 ODIs, and that number was also his age, when he became captain but signs were already there that he would make a formidable player and leader. Smith is aggressive and strategic, both as a captain and as a batsman. His drives through the off-side are merciless and he punishes anything on the pads through midwicket. Smith’s average in this format peeps over 40 and he has close to 6000 runs. In 2007, he became the first ODI player to hit six fours in an over.

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28th Match, Group B -

Bangladesh v England

Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury

Stadium, Chittagong

Fri Mar 11

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Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladesh

Shakib Al Hasan has Initially picked in the Bangladesh team for his left-arm spin, Shakib Al Hasan has graduated to becoming a key member of the national team with his all-round skills. He’s played a prominent role in reviving Bangladesh’s fortunes in both Testsand ODIs, contributing significantly with both bat and ball and even bearing the burden of captaincy. He oversaw a 4-0 whitewash of New Zealand in an ODI series at home, and led by example. For Bangladesh in the World Cup, much will depend on how he delivers.

Andrew Strauss England

Andrew Strauss is a cricketer transformed from the slightly one-dimensional accumulator whose calm approach has been so invaluable in Test cricket since his debut in 2004. Since returning to the one-day outfit in April 2009, he has by his own admission enjoyed the opportunity to bat with a new sense of freedom, as showcased by his tally of 14 sixes in his last 35 matches, compared with eight in 68 in his previous incarnation. He has developed a priceless ability to anchor the innings while still pushing along at a comfortable tempo.

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27th Match, Group B -

Ireland v West Indies

Punjab Cricket Association Stadium,

Mohali, Chandigarh

Fri Mar 11

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10:00 BDT

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William Porterfield, Ireland

William Porterfield His country’s leading batsman after the loss of Ed Joyce and Eoin Morgan to England, Porterfield is a correct and stylish left-hander who has forged a successful career in English county cricket. He moved through the age-groups and always seemed destined for a major role in Ireland’s future and began his international career in Hussey-esque with two early hundreds. As a captain he has had to learn quickly, but is a strong thinker and about the game always speaks openly regarding the challenges facing Associate cricket.

Darren Sammy

Darren Sammy bowler or allrounder in the team, but he is the captain of the team. His supporters say his head and heart are in right place and he is passionate about reviving West Indies cricket. And he is increasingly proving to be a valuable player in the ODI squad. In 2010, against Zimbabwe, he took eight wickets at 12.50 and at an economy rate of just 2.85 to play a major role in the series triumph. Later, against South Africa, he was the lone West Indian to have had a good series: he scored his runs at a strike-rate of 145.31, and registered the fastest ever half-century by a West Indian in the second ODI.

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26th Match, Group A -

Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe

Pallekele International

Cricket Stadium

Thu Mar 10

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15:00 BDT

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Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lanka

Kumar Sangakkara combines the role of articulate leader and safe wicketkeeper to that of being the motor in Sri Lanka's middle-order. He is among the few players around whose batting retains its elegance while meeting the ever-increasing run-rates demanded by the limited-overs game. He has hovered around the top of the Test batting rankings for several years now, but is yet to reach the same heights in one-day cricket. Taking over the captaincy in 2009 from Mahela Jayawardene, he led Sri Lanka to a near-perfect 2010 in the one-dayers, winning every series they entered except the Asia Cup.

Elton Chigumbura, Zimbabwe

Elton Chigumbura allrounder with the talent to alter the course of an innings with both bat and ball, Elton Chigumbura has not taken as naturally to the captaincy of the national side as many might have hoped. The weight of responsibility and niggling injuries appeared to sap the zip from his bowling and the adventure from his batting, and he has averaged 22 with the bat and 129 with the ball since taking the helm. Chigumbura’s potential is undoubted, however, and Zimbabwe will need him to get back to his electric best if they are to challenge the top teams at the World Cup.

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25th Match, Group B -

India v Netherlands

Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

Wed Mar 9

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MS Dhoni

India

Dhoni's most fruitful partnerships have come with Yuvraj Singh and Suresh Raina.MS Dhoni captured the world's attention with his big hundreds, full of big sixes, against Pakistan and Sri Lanka, but as the long-haired unknown kid from Jharkhand became the smooth-talking, sharp captain, the raw hitter with the bat gave way to a mature accumulator in the middle of India's innings, providing the other big hitters in the side a buffer should they fail. It is not to say that he has given up on the fireworks entirely, just that he started using them more judiciously. For more than two years post the 2007 World Cup, Dhoni seemed to have worked out the pace, the structure, the furniture of batting in ODI, both while setting targets and chasing them. As a wicketkeeper, he has never been pretty, but he has evolved into an effective operator. A bright example of it is how he has eliminated the follow-through when standing up to the spinners, thus completing amazingly quick stumpings.

Peter Borren

Netherlands

Borren's World Cup experience extends to just three games.The chirpy leader of the side, Peter Borren's smart batting and bustling medium pace make him the perfect utility player for a lesser World Cup team like Netherlands. He backs himself for the crucial role of finishing the innings from No. 6, where his quick running and his ability to nurdle into space offers just the kind of awkward irritation that defines his scrapping side.

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24th Match, Group A -

New Zealand v Pakistan

Pallekele International

Cricket Stadium

Tue Mar 809:00 GMT |

14:30 local 15:00 BDT

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Daniel Vettori, New Zealand

Daniel Vettori as the captain and best player in the team, Vettori is comfortably the most important man in New Zealand’s World Cup campaign. Opposition batsmen are often content to see him off and attack the fast bowlers, but New Zealand are at their best when Vettori is also outsmarting batsmen and taking wickets. On the subcontinental pitches, he must use his own bowling as an attacking option. He is also one of the more reliable batsmen in New Zealand’s order, although his impact in ODIs has not been as great as in Tests. He is the only man in the squad to have been to three previous World Cups, although he did not play a game in 1999.

Shahid Afridi, Pakistan

Afridi is one of only three players who have scored over 5000 runs and picked up over 250 wickets in ODIs Forget the debate over whether Shahid Afridi will or should be captain of the ODI side; he remains the side's most talismanic player, capable of changing any game in a trice. Over the years, it is Afridi's leg-spin that has held him in better stead, providing not only a vital choke during the middle overs, but a serious wicket-taking threat. With the bat he remains as he was when he first arrived, capable of both ends of madness. Often he has threatened to become mature and sensible but it is generally a temporary state; don't discount his two ODI hundreds in the Asia Cup last year, in his first matches as captain and also 2011 ICC World Cup.

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23rd Match, Group A -

Canada v Kenya

Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

Mon Mar 7

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15:00 BDT

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Ashish Bagai, Canada

Ashish Bagai is Canada’s captain, wicketkeeper and most consistent top-order batsman. Diminutive and light on his feet, Bagai remains a safe glove-man, but persistent knee trouble has slowed his running between the wickets. In a full-strength team, Bagai plays the role of anchor, rotating the strike and steadily accumulating his runs. An orthodox batsman, Bagai will nudge and nurdle his way out of a box rather than go for the big hit. A veteran of two previous World Cup campaigns, this will be his first time leading Canada on cricket’s biggest stage and in no less than the country of his birth.

Jimmy Kamande, Kenya

Jimmy Kamande has had a varied career,and best player in the team starting as a seamer, reinventing himself as an offspinner after being reported for having a suspect action, and now emerging as something of an allrounder,albeit one not really good enough to warrant a place on either discipline alone. Recently appointed captain, his biggest challenge will be bringing together a disparate and disillusioned side.

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22nd Match, Group B -

India v Ireland

M Chinnaswamy Stadium,

Bangalore

Sun Mar 6

09:00 GMT | 14:30 local

15:00 BDT

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MS Dhoni, India

MS Dhoni's most fruitful partnerships have come with Yuvraj Singh and Suresh Raina. MS Dhoni captured the world's attention with his big hundreds, full of big sixes, against Pakistan and Sri Lanka, but as the long-haired unknown kid from Jharkhand became the smooth-talking, sharp captain, the raw hitter with the bat gave way to a mature accumulator in the middle of India's innings, providing the other big hitters in the side a buffer should they fail. It is not to say that he has given up on the fireworks entirely, just that he started using them more judiciously. For more than two years post the 2007 World Cup, Dhoni seemed to have worked out the pace, the structure, the furniture of batting in ODI, both while setting targets and chasing them. As a wicketkeeper, he has never been pretty, but he has evolved into an effective operator. A bright example of it is how he has eliminated the follow-through when standing up to the spinners, thus completing amazingly quick stumpings.

William Porterfield, Ireland

William Porterfield His country’s leading batsman after the loss of Ed Joyce and Eoin Morgan to England, Porterfield is a correct and stylish left-hander who has forged a successful career in English county cricket. He moved through the age-groups and always seemed destined for a major role in Ireland’s future and began his international career in Hussey-esque with two early hundreds. As a captain he has had to learn quickly, but is a strong thinker and about the game always speaks openly regarding the challenges facing Associate cricket.

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21st Match, Group B -

England v South Africa

MA Chidambaram Stadium,

Chepauk, Chennai

Sun Mar 6

04:00 GMT | 09:30 local

10:00 BDT

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Andrew Strauss England

Andrew Strauss is a cricketer transformed from the slightly one-dimensional accumulator whose calm approach has been so invaluable in Test cricket since his debut in 2004. Since returning to the one-day outfit in April 2009, he has by his own admission enjoyed the opportunity to bat with a new sense of freedom, as showcased by his tally of 14 sixes in his last 35 matches, compared with eight in 68 in his previous incarnation. He has developed a priceless ability to anchor the innings while still pushing along at a comfortable tempo.

Graeme Smith South Africa

Graeme Smith is a prolific batsman, strong on the front and back foot. He has safe hands in the slips or the outfield but his most valuable asset now is the maturity and charisma he shows as a leader. Under Graeme Smith, South Africa have not won a piece of ICC silverware and the 2011 World Cup will be their last chance to do so, since Smith will step down after the event. He had played just 22 ODIs, and that number was also his age, when he became captain but signs were already there that he would make a formidable player and leader. Smith is aggressive and strategic, both as a captain and as a batsman. His drives through the off-side are merciless and he punishes anything on the pads through midwicket. Smith’s average in this format peeps over 40 and he has close to 6000 runs. In 2007, he became the first ODI player to hit six fours in an over.

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20th Match, Group A -

Sri Lanka v Australia

R Premadasa Stadium,

Colombo

Sat Mar 5

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Kumar Sangakkara

Kumar Sangakkara combines the role of articulate leader and safe wicketkeeper to that of being the motor in Sri Lanka's middle-order. He is among the few players around whose batting retains its elegance while meeting the ever-increasing run-rates demanded by the limited-overs game. He has hovered around the top of the Test batting rankings for several years now, but is yet to reach the same heights

in one-day cricket. Taking over the captaincy in 2009 from Mahela Jayawardene, he led Sri Lanka to a near-perfect 2010 in the one-dayers, winning every series they entered except the Asia Cup.

Ricky Ponting

Ricky Ponting has scored four centuries and six fifties in World Cups at an average of 48.03, which is significantly higher than his overall average of 42.75 A veteran of four World Cups, he starts the 2011 event second on the overall run-list behind Sachin Tendulkar. He began in 1996 as a No.3, scoring a century against West Indies and 45 in the final loss in a small collection. Three years later he increased his tally (359) and his average (39.33), but the closest he went to a defining innings was 69 as Steve Waugh's junior partner in the great escape against South Africa at Leeds. That all changed in 2003 when he capped the tournament with a brutal century in the final. Four years later he dominated again, registering 539 runs at 67.37 on the way to another title. Unbelievably, his worst result at the tournament is runner-up in 1996.

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19th Match, Group B -

Bangladesh v West Indies

Shere Bangla National Stadium,

Mirpur, Dhaka

Fri Mar 4

08:30 GMT | 14:30 local

Da

Darren Sammy

Shakib Al Hasan

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Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladesh

Shakib Al Hasan has Initially picked in the Bangladesh team for his left-arm spin, Shakib Al Hasan has graduated to becoming a key member of the national team with his all-round skills. He’s played a prominent role in reviving Bangladesh’s fortunes in both Testsand ODIs, contributing significantly with both bat and ball and even bearing the burden of captaincy. He oversaw a 4-0 whitewash of New Zealand in an ODI series at home, and led by example. For Bangladesh in the World Cup, much will depend on how he delivers.

D

Darren Sammy

West Indies

Darren Sammy bowler or allrounder in the team, but he is the captain of the team. His supporters say his head and heart are in right place and he is passionate about reviving West Indies cricket. And he is increasingly proving to be a valuable player in the ODI squad. In 2010, against Zimbabwe, he took eight wickets at 12.50 and at an economy rate of just 2.85 to play a major role in the series triumph. Later, against South Africa, he was the lone West Indian to have had a good series: he scored his runs at a strike-rate of 145.31, and registered the fastest ever half-century by a West Indian in the second ODI.

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16th Match, Group B -

Netherlands v South Africa

Punjab Cricket Association

Stadium,Mohali, Chandigarh

Peter Borre Graeme Smith

Thu Mar 3

09:00 GMT | 14:30 local

15:00 BDT

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Peter Borre Netherlands

Peter Borren’s smart batting and bustling medium pace make him the perfect utility player for a lesser World Cup team like Netherlands. He backs himself for the crucial role of finishing the innings from No. 6, where his quick running and his ability to nurdle into space offers just the kind of awkward irritation that defines his scrapping side

Graeme Smith South Africa

Graeme Smith is a prolific batsman, strong on the front and back foot. He has safe hands in the slips or the outfield but his most valuable asset now is the maturity and charisma he shows as a leader. Under Graeme Smith, South Africa have not won a piece of ICC silverware and the 2011 World Cup will be their last chance to do so, since Smith will step down after the event. He had played just 22 ODIs, and that number was also his age, when he became captain but signs were already there that he would make a formidable player and leader. Smith is aggressive and strategic, both as a captain and as a batsman. His drives through the off-side are merciless and he punishes anything on the pads through midwicket. Smith’s average in this format peeps over 40 and he has close to 6000 runs. In 2007, he became the first ODI player to hit six fours in an over.

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15th Match, Group B -

England v Ireland

M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

Wed Mar 2

09:00 GMT | 14:30 local

15:00 BDT

Andrew Strauss England William Porterfield, Ireland

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Andrew Strauss

Andrew Strauss is a cricketer transformed from the slightly one-dimensional accumulator whose calm approach has been so invaluable in Test cricket since his debut in 2004. Since returning to the one-day outfit in April 2009, he has by his own admission enjoyed the opportunity to bat with a new sense of freedom, as showcased by his tally of 14 sixes in his last 35 matches, compared with eight in 68 in his previous incarnation. He has developed a priceless ability to anchor the innings while still pushing along at a comfortable tempo.

William Porterfield, Ireland

His country's leading batsman after the loss of Ed Joyce and Eoin Morgan to England, Porterfield is a correct and stylish left-hander who has forged a successful career in English county cricket. He moved through the age-groups and always seemed destined for a major role in Ireland's future and began his international career in Hussey-esque with two early hundreds. As a captain he has had to learn quickly, but is a strong thinker and about the game always speaks openly regarding the challenges facing Associate cricket.