ONCE AGAIN Bangalore's M Chinnaswamy Stadium is ready to entertain cricket-loving crowds on Wednesday, March 16. In the 35th match of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, two group 'A' teams, defending champion Australia and minnow Canada will face each other.
The Australian team, which was not being considered as the top contenders of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 prior to the tournament, started their campaign with a 91-run victory against Zimbabwe. In the next match, they won by seven wickets against neighbour New Zealand.
The Australian winning streak stopped by rain, when their match was washed away against Sri Lanka. In their fourth match of the Cricket World Cup 2011 against Kenya, who is in the last position in their group, Australian team won by 60 runs.
Canada, one of the weakest team of the ongoing tournament, in all the five matches, chased the target, but missed the destination every time except once against Kenya.
The Canadian team won against Kenya by five wickets, but lost against Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Pakistan and New Zealand by 210-run, 175-run, 46-run and 97 runs respectively.
In an only encounter between Australia and Canada during the 1979 Cricket World Cup at Birmingham in England on June 16, 1979, Australia won that match by seven wickets.
Here are the squads of Australia and Canada in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011:
Australia: Ricky Ponting (capt), Michael Clarke, Callum Ferguson, Brad Haddin (wk), John Hastings, David Hussey, Michael Hussey, Mitchell Johnson, Jason Krejza, Brett Lee, Tim Paine, Steven Smith, Shaun Tait, Shane Watson, Cameron White.
Canada: Ashish Bagai (capt/wk), Rizwan Cheema, Harvir Baidwan, Balaji Rao, John Davison, Parth Desai, Tyson Gordon, Ruvindu Gunasekera, Jimmy Hansra, Khurram Chohan, Nitish Kumar, Henry Osinde, Hiral Patel, Zubin Surkari, Karl Whatham, Hamza Tariq.
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