Mumbai one-dayer called off

The seventh and final ODI between India and Australia has been called off after heavy rains in Mumbai washed out the tie.

Rains lashed Mumbai all day and the possibility of the match off being played looked remote since the every hour.

SportsCenter correspondent Sai Prasad Mahapatra, who was all along observing the situation in Mumbai, said the ground always looked very wet.

"The ground staff said they will need two hours to get the field ready for play but that is provided the rain stops.

"However, looking at the rain, I think it looks rather rough as of now. It is just a matter of time before the match is called off."

The Board President's XI and Sri Lanka warm-up match also suffered on what has been a chaoctic day for India's commerical capital, with the first day being washed out without a ball being bowled.

Australia had already pocketed the series 4-2, winning the sixth ODI in Guwahati on Sunday. The Mumbai ODI in any case did not have any bearing on the series.
Squads

India: MS Dhoni (Captain & WK), G Gambhir, Harbhajan Singh, RA Jadeja, KD Karthik, V Kohli, P Kumar, A Mishra, A Nehra, MM Patel, SK Raina, V Sehwag, I Sharma, SR Tendulkar, S Tyagi, Yuvraj Singh

Australia: RT Ponting (Captain), MEK Hussey, DE Bollinger, BT Cockley, NM Hauritz, BW Hilfenhaus, JM Holland, MG Johnson, AB McDonald, CJ McKay, GA Manou (WK), SE Marsh, AC Voges, SR Watson, CL White

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Mumbai to host final of 2011 WC

Mumbai will host the final, along with two other matches of the 2011 cricket World Cup.
Meanwhile, Mohali will host one of the semifinals of the 2011 cricket World Cup to be organised jointly by India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

The Local Organising Committee met on Wednesday to finalise the venue-based distribution of the 29 games that India is scheduled to host.

The rest of the 20 games of the 49-match event have been awarded to Sri Lanka (12) and Bangaldesh (8).

The committee decided to give two other matches to Mohali apart from the semifinal.
Ahmedabad has been given a quarterfinal and two other games, while Kolkata and Delhi will host one India and three other matches each, BCCI secretary N Srinivas said in a statement.

Jaipur has been left out of the list of venues with Nagpur, Chennai and Bangalore getting one India game each.

India's share of World Cup matches increased by eight after the games scheduled in Pakistan were shifted to other co-hosts due to security concerns of the participating countries.

The venue-based match distribution: Mumbai: (Final and two games); Mohali (Semifinal and two games); Ahmedabad (Quarterfinal and two games); Delhi (one India game and three games); Chennai (one India game and three games); Bangalore (one India game and three games); Nagpur (one India game and three games); Kolkata (one India game and three games).

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