Sri Lanka will be looking for the elusive test match and series win when they tour India for a Three Test, five ODI and Two T20 match series from November to December 2009. The team arrive in India on November 8th for the 55-day tour.
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Umpires: R Koertzen (South Africa) and P Parker (Australia)
Toss: Kenya (Elected to Bat)
Result: England won by 7 wickets
Man of the Match: E Joyce
Match Summary: Match Over
Kenya
England
177/10 (43.0 overs)
178/3 (33.0 overs)
Batsman
R
B
4s
6s
K Pietersen
56
72
5
1
Batsman
R
B
4s
6s
P Collingwood
18
17
3
0
Required Run Rate:
Target:
178 (50 overs)
Bowler
O
M
R
W
H Varaiya
6
0
39
0
Bowler
O
M
R
W
C Obuya
3
0
8
0
Last Wicket:E Joyce b Tikolo 75 (90) FoW 3-155 (27.6 overs)
Group C, Match 6, ENG vs KEN: England beat Kenya by 7 wickets
Mar 24, 2007
England marched their way into the Super 8s when they beat Kenya by 7 wickets on Saturday. The English achieved the target of 178 runs with 60 balls to spare. Ed Joyce and Pietersen chipped in with half-centuries to take England to a comprehensive win.
England`s Andrew Flintoff picked up two wickets to limit Kenya to 177 all out in a rain-affected match which was reduced to 43 overs each side.
Captain Steve Tikolo struck 76 before being bowled by Flintoff, back into the side after being dropped from the Canada win because of a drinking scandal.
Kenyan captain, Steve Tikolo surprised everyone by electing to bat and the decision looked to have backfired when a James Anderson bowled opener Ravi Shah for 4 runs in the fifth over.
Chasing a target of 177 runs, England lost their first wicket in the form of Michael Vaughan for a mere 12 runs on the board. Obuya picked up a spectacular low catch and sent the English captain on his way back for 1.
Ian Bell was the second man to go for England when he played a complacent stroke and was caught at mid-off for 16.
Ed Joyce played the anchor innings for England but when he done in by Tikolos doosra for 75. However, this minor setback did not stop the Englan team who romped their way to victory and into the Super 8s.
England team: E C Joyce, M P Vaughan, I R Bell, K P Pietersen, P D Collingwood, A Flintoff, R S Bopara, P A Nixon, S I Mahmood, J M Anderson, M S Panesar
Kenya team: M A Ouma, R D Shah, S O Tikolo, T Mishra, C O Obuya, A O Suji, T M Odoyo, L N Onyango, J K Kamande, P J Ongondo, H A Varaiya
Group C, Match 6, St. Lucia: England 178-3 (33.0 overs) beat Kenya 177 (43.0 overs) by 7 wickets
Group C, Match 6, ENG vs KEN: England, Kenya battle for Super Eights
Mar 24, 2007
England battle Kenya for a place in the Super Eights on Saturday with both sides hoping their troops can remain focused after the tragic news that Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer had been murdered.
England captain Michael Vaughan is well aware that Kenya, surprise semi-finalists in 2003, pose a credible threat to his side`s chances of qualifying for the second round and any loss of concentration could be crucial in the final Group C match.
England team (from): Michael Vaughan (captain), Ed Joyce, Ian Bell, Kevin Pietersen, Paul Collingwood, Andrew Flintoff, Jamie Dalrymple, Paul Nixon, Liam Plunkett, James Anderson, Monty Panesar.
Kenya team (from): Maurice Ouma, David Obuya, Ravi Shah, Steve Tikolo (captain), Tanmay Mishra, Collins Obuya, Thomas Odoyo, Jimmy Kamande, Lameck Onyango, Peter Ongondo, Hiren Varaiya.
England vs Kenya Scoreboard - ICC Cricket World Cup 2007
Umpires: R E Koertzen, P D Parker England: E C Joyce, M P Vaughan, I R Bell, K P Pietersen, P D Collingwood, A Flintoff, R S Bopara, P A Nixon, S I Mahmood, J M Anderson, M S Panesar Kenya: M A Ouma, R D Shah, S O Tikolo, T Mishra, C O Obuya, A O Suji, T M Odoyo, L N Onyango, J K Kamande, P J Ongondo, H A Varaiya
The 2009 ICC World Twenty20 is a Twenty20 cricket tournament scheduled to take place in England in June of 2009. It will be the second World Twenty20 and will consist of 12 teams, contested by all Test-playing nations plus qualifiers (Ireland, Netherlands and Scotland)
The Champions Twenty20 League, formed with the official sanction of ICC will kick off in October 2008. Eight domestic teams from four nations will participate. Cricket Australia will partner the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Cricket South Africa (CSA). The champion team in the Champions Twenty20 league will get US $5 million, which is the highest ever prize money for a cricket event.
The 2007 Cricket World Cup was hosted by the West Indies from March 11 to April 28, 2007. It was contested by 16 nations.
The ten Test Match-playing countries qualified for the World Cup automatically, along with Kenya, which had ODI status and five further teams qualified via the 2005 ICC Trophy. The field of sixteen teams was the largest ever for the Cricket World Cup.
The teams were divided into 4 groups, with each group playing its matches at one ground.
The top two teams from each group competed in a Super 8 format, similar to the previous "Super 6" format, from which the semi-finalists were decided. Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and South Africa won through to the semi-finals, with Australia defeating Sri Lanka in the final to win their third consecutive World Cup.
There were 51 matches overall, spread over eight venues across the West Indies, which were selected to host the World Cup final tournament.
Notable events of the tournament included the death of Bob Woolmer, the Pakistan coach, which happened one day after his team's defeat to Ireland, which put them out of the running for the World Cup. India scored 413-5 in 50 overs against Bermuda, breaking the World Cup record for the highest team total. Herschelle Gibbs hit six sixes in one Daan van Bunge over for South Africa against the Netherlands, becoming the first player to achieve the feat in ODI cricket. Australia became the first team to win 3 consecutive World Cups.
I fully expect us to win every game we play, it doesn't matter what the make-up of the team is. Ricky Ponting, Australian skipper.
Is this a resignation issue? I'll have to talk with my superiors on that. former New Zealand captain and Match referee Jeff Crowe on the blunder by him and the umpires which
caused the farcical scenes at the end of the World Cup final.
I guess it was nice to finish off with a catch behind with Gilly. McGrath on Gilchrist catching Arnold to give him his last ODI wicket. He is the tournament's leading wicket-taker
with a record haul of 25 wickets and the most successful World Cup bowler of all-time.
It was really pleasing to do it on an important day. I've been getting a lot of starts but hadn't converted. Adam Gilchrist who smashed a final record 149 off 104 balls to set up the
victory.
It was simply a brilliant innings from Gilchrist, unfortunately I was the opposition captain watching it. Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene about Adam Gilchrist's 149 off just
104 balls.
My learned commentary is, my commentary is congratulations to Ricky and the boys, but to Glenn McGrath, that lanky bloke from Narromine, thanks for a wonderful contribution to Australian cricket. Prime Minister "cricket tragic" John Howard.
We listen to criticism, and there has been a lot of it from people saying it's been too long - so we'll look to make it shorter. ICC chief executive Malcolm Speed.
England marched their way into the Super 8s when they beat Kenya by 7 wickets on Saturday. The English achieved the target of 178 runs with 60 balls to spare. Ed Joyce and Pietersen chipped in with half-centuries to take England to a comprehensive win.
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Notable events of the tournament included the death of Bob Woolmer, the Pakistan coach, which happened one day after his team's defeat to Ireland, which put them out of the running for the World Cup. 
I fully expect us to win every game we play, it doesn't matter what the make-up of the team is. 
