India Wins the Cricket World Cup at Home

On 2 April 2011, India and Sri Lanka met at Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium for the tenth Cricket World Cup final. Both finalists were co-hosts of the tournament, which they shared with Bangladesh. Fourteen teams had been split into two groups of seven, with the top four in each advancing to the quarter-finals, where India knocked out the defending champions Australia.

Before play commenced, crowd noise created an unusual procedural dispute during the coin toss. Match referee Jeff Crowe was unable to hear the initial call made by Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara. Crowe ordered a re-toss, which Sangakkara won on his second call, electing to bat first. The Indian bowling attack, led by Zaheer Khan, restricted Sri Lanka early in the innings. Khan opened with three successive maidens and removed opener Upul Tharanga, caught by Virender Sehwag in the slips, in the sixth over.