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Record crowds see ICC Cricket World Cup 2003

A record crowd of 32,827 for a cricket match in South Africa attended the ICC Cricket World Cup Final between the champions Australia and India at the Wanderers Stadium on Sunday

26-Mar-2003•ICC CWC 2003 Media Information

One off day shattered our Cup dreams, says Ganguly

Mumbai, March 25 AFP - India skipper Sourav Ganguly says his decision to field first wasn't the reason for his team's defeat in the World Cup final against Australia

26-Mar-2003

Only the slightest improvement in New Zealand's ODI ranking

Reaching the Super Six stage of the World Cup at the expense of nations ranked ahead of it has done little to improve New Zealand's ranking on the ICC One-Day International Championship table

25-Mar-2003•Lynn McConnell

Australia romp home after dismal start - 1999

Joint-favourites for the event when it commenced, Australia duly won the World Cup in 1999

25-Mar-2003•Partab Ramchand

World Cup party creates excitement about the Caribbean

Photo © WICB The Caribbean, its culture, cuisine and cricket, received wide exposure internationally when the Windies World Cup 2007 delegation hosted a major event in Johannesburg, South Africa, on March 9 to invite the world to the next

25-Mar-2003•WICB Media Release

Australia: Miles ahead of the rest

Australia were quite fittingly re-crowned champions of one-day cricket on Sunday, a team that was a class above all their competitors in the tournament

25-Mar-2003•Taha Noor

The World Cricket Weblog - Mar. 25 - Mar. 31

West Indies take aim at Waugh Fast bowler Mervyn Dillon says the West Indies will target Steve Waugh with a barrage of short-pitched deliveries as they desperately try to win back lost respect against Australia in their Test series beginning next

25-Mar-2003

The Quotes Log - Mar. 25 - Mar. 31

"When we (look at) the New Zealand game we lost...the guy that came at the end -(Andre) Adams - that catch dropped by Marlon (Samuels)...you look at the approach to the catch

25-Mar-2003

Invincible Australia tower above the rest

It took 54 matches to do so, but the World Cup has eventually confirmed that Australia are the best team on the planet, and by a distance

24-Mar-2003•Ralph Dellor

Records galore among the memories

The 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup is behind us and Australia has captured its third title with an awesome, clinical and professional performance to blow India out of the final, almost as early as the first over bowled

24-Mar-2003•Keith Lane

Australia now the undisputed number one

Now there is no doubt that Australia are the true world champions in cricket just as Brazil are in football

24-Mar-2003•Rashid Latif

The Expert's Log - Mar. 24 - Mar. 30

"I don't subscribe to the fact that we have taken the game to a new level

24-Mar-2003

I would've been happier if India had won the World Cup - Tendulkar

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa March 23, AP - Sachin Tendulkar says he'd trade his Man-of-the-Series honour for another shot at the Aussies

24-Mar-2003•Sandeep Nakai

Malcolm Gray thanks South Africa

ICC President Malcolm Gray thanked South Africa in his closing speech at the presentation ceremony of yesterday's ICC Cricket World Cup final at the Wanderers

24-Mar-2003•WCOC Press Release

Predictable end to a long, long tournament

In the end it was a tame, rather predictable finish, although nothing like the anti-climax of the 1999 World Cup final

24-Mar-2003•Stephen Lamb

Leading ICC 2003 Cricket World Cup Statistics

Most catches 11 RT Ponting Australia 8 B Lee Australia 8 D Mongia India 8 V Sehwag India 6 LJ Burger Namibia 6 Z Khan India 5 PA de Silva Sri Lanka 5 CL Hooper West Indies 5 ST Jayasuriya Sri Lanka 5 M Kaif India 5 DR Martyn Australia 5

24-Mar-2003•Andrew Samson

Super Six absentees detract from tournament

As World Cups go, the South African version of 2003 fell short of expectations because of the failure of favoured teams to make the Super Six section of the tournament

24-Mar-2003•Lynn McConnell

Significant implications for cricket in NZ with funding freeze

News of nearly $NZ5 million from the World Cup being withheld from New Zealand Cricket (NZC) as a result of its failure to play a match in Kenya will have been an unwelcome arrival on the budgetary doorstep

23-Mar-2003•Lynn McConnell

India threatened with ICC suspension

JOHANNESBURG, March 22 AFP - International Cricket Council (ICC) president Malcolm Gray threatened India with suspension from world cricket here today in the wake of their players' World Cup contracts row

23-Mar-2003

Milestones Preview: Australia vs India - WC 2003 Final

Javagal Srinath (IND) needs 6 wickets to join the 50 World Cup wicket-club Glenn McGrath (AUS) needs 8 wickets to join the 50 World Cup wicket-club Brett Lee (AUS) needs 5 wickets to join the 25 World Cup wicket-club Zaheer Khan (IND) needs 7

23-Mar-2003•CricInfo

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