After their win over England, Bangladesh take a step closer to the quarter-finals as they beat the Netherlands in Chittagong on Monday [GALLO/GETTY]
Published On 14 Mar 201114 Mar 2011
Defending champions Australia reached the quarter-finals but not before their bowling had been tested by Collins Obuya and his fellow Kenyan batsmen in Bangalore on Sunday [GALLO/GETTY]
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India looked to be set for a huge total as Sachin Tendulkar hit 111 and Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir half-centuries before the co-hosts lost their last nine wickets for just 29 runs against South Africa [GALLO/GETTY]
Needing 13 off the last over, Robin Peterson hit 16 off four balls to complete what was still a large run chase for the Proteas, winning by three wickets with two balls to spare [GALLO/GETTY]
England captain Andrew Strauss can(***)t believe it as Shafiul Islam and Mahmudullah celebrate scoring the winning runs to give Bangladesh hope of progressing from Group B at the expense of the English [GALLO/GETTY]
Upul Tharanga and Tillakaratne Dilshan made a World Cup record stand of 282 for the first wicket as Sri Lanka set Zimbabwe a daunting 328-run target on Thursday [AFP]
Zimbabwe(***)s Brendan Taylor strikes back with 80 off 72 balls before being caught by Mahela Jayawardene off Angelo Mathews [AFP]
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Ross Taylor smashed his way to a century as Pakistan suffered their second biggest Cricket World Cup defeat, losing by 110 runs to New Zealand in Group A [GALLO/GETTY]
Shoaib Akhtar could not quite believe it as Ross Taylor was dropped. Twice. Taylor went on to hit Pakistan for seven sixes and eight fours in his knock [AFP]
Indian players Virat Kohli, captain MS Dhoni, Virender Sehwag and Suresh Raina humbly celebrate winning a football game against fellow teammates in a training session [GALLO/GETTY]
And this is the pre-game ritual at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium in New Delhi - getting rid of the mosquitoes [AFP]
Cricket World Cup fever is everywhere, including this busy intersection in Chittagong [AFP]
Enthusiasm for the Cricket World Cup being held in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and India has stretched to outposts such as Kashmir, where a photographer snapped children playing beneath snow-capped peaks [EPA]
In the grounds, fans want sixes - and they get them, with 100 smashed over World Cup boundaries by the end of Ireland(***)s innings against India on Sunday [GALLO/GETTY]
Australia(***)s Ricky Ponting had been lagging well behind in the runs before his side took on Sri Lanka in Colombo in Group A [GALLO/GETTY]
But a downpour at the R Premadasa Stadium prevented the Australia captain taking to the crease after Sri Lanka reached 146-3 before play was abandoned [GALLO/GETTY]
After believing that umpire Billy Bowden had been responsible for England(***)s thrilling draw with India earlier in the week, fans in Chennai taunted the Ashes winners as they took on South Africa [GALLO/GETTY]
In Bangalore a fan shows his support for Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar, the highest World Cup scorer with 1944 runs, as the hosts take on Ireland [Reuters]
