After a wait of 28 long years, India ended their wait for a ODI World Cup win when they beat Sri Lanka in final of 2011 edition.
Sachin Tendulkar finally won a World Cup medal after wait of more than 2 decades. Read on for more interesting facts in the slides to come.
The toss in WC 2011 final took place twice as the first time, match referee Jeff Crowe could not listen to the call from SL captain Kumar Sangakkara.
Dhoni smashed the ball into the stands to win World Cup for India at Wankhede but the ball was eventually lost and despite attempts to locate it, it was not found for many years.
The ball was later found thanks to help from Sunil Gavasakar. It fell at seat number 210 in L Block of MCA Pavilion. Gavaskar, in 2020, wrote to Mumbai Cricket Association that his friend's friend was sitting on that seat on the final night and asked them to track the man.
In the final after Sehwag was declared out, he saved Gambhir's wicket too by taking a referral as the left-handed batter was not fully padded up and had the DRS not taken, Gambhir could have timed out himself.
Chawla's jersey got totally wet after with champagne celebrations but he did not take it off the whole night and went to sleep wearing it in the morning.