Fifa World Cup News, Stats, Scores

World Cup Willie, the mascot for the 1966 competition, was the first World Cup mascot. World Cups feature official match balls specially designed for each tournament. After Slazenger produced the ball for the 1966 World Cup Adidas became the official supplier to FIFA. Each World Cup also has an official song, which have been performed by artists ranging from Shakira to Will Smith.

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However, he hasn’t done either satisfactorily enough thus far. The ball flies to long leg and Adam Milne drops a sitter. Just like the first game, it’s down to these two to play out the middle overs and get a move on after India’s top-order failed.

The runners up will get a cheque of $1.5 million while the losing semi-finalists get $750,000 each. Winners of each Super 10 stage match will receive $50,000 each. Apart from this, all the participating teams will be earning $300,000 from the ICC. The fifth and final day of fleet racing wrapped-up Friday at the 2020 Hempel World Cup Series Miami. Many of the 182 sailors from 45 nations raced with Olympic qualification on the line and targeting a spot in Saturday’s pivotal Medal Races.

In 2014, Germany became the first European team to win in the Americas. Only on five occasions have consecutive World Cups been won by teams from the same continent. The current run of four champions from one continental confederation has not happened before. Italy and Brazil successfully defended their titles in 1938 and 1962 respectively, while Italy’s triumph in 2006 has been followed by wins for Spain in 2010, Germany in 2014 and France in 2018.

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An equivalent tournament for women’s football, the FIFA Women’s World Cup, was first held in 1991 in China. The women’s tournament is smaller in scale and profile than the men’s, but is growing; the number of entrants for the 2007 tournament was 120, more than double that of 1991. On 4 June 2015 Chuck Blazer while co-operating with the FBI and the Swiss authorities admitted that he and the other members of FIFA’s then-executive committee were bribed in order to promote the 1998 and 2010 World Cups. On 10 June 2015, Swiss authorities seized computer data from the offices of Sepp Blatter. The same day, FIFA postponed the bidding process for the 2026 FIFA World Cup in light of the allegations surrounding bribery in the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 tournaments.

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The first-ever Cricket World Cup in the shortest format of the game was hosted by South Africa in 2007. Team India’s new-found captain MS Dhoni and his young team climbed great heights and won the inaugural tournament. It paved the way for the Indian Premier League in 2008. Since then, the T20 format has seen new world champions like Pakistan , England , West Indies and Sri Lanka . • In 16 T20Is against played between the two sides both the teams have 8 wins each. This is, in quite literal terms, one of the biggest “the nation wants to know” questions.

New Zealand are one hit away from winning the match now. Well, New Zealand had only 111 runs to chase and they did that with utmost ease. Their openers, Martin Guptill and Daryl Mitchell started well but just as the former was looking to tee off he perished. Daryl Mitchell though carried on his merry way and he found boundaries at will in the middle.