avoiding a repeat of the gambhir-yuvraj runout madness may have been yet another reason why dhoni came ahead of yuvraj in the finals.

Here are mine :

Kamran Akmal vs SL and NZ as far as i remember.

Shoaib Akhtar & Razzaq vs NZ.

Indian batsmen vs SA.

Saffers vs NZ. It qualified for a C but also for a Goof, i think.

Pakistani catching in Mohali.

And the biggest comes today from ICC i.e, the exclusion of Associates !

Between, I think in recent times Ponting missing the throw is not uncharacteristic. His accuracy seems to have gone down.

Pakistans comical fielding in the semi final has to be there some where . They dropped four catches but still failed to help tendulkar reach his century of centuries !!

Surely the BIGGEST gaffe of the tournament was the toss in the final? Jeef Crowe did not hear what Sangakkara called? How priceless was that?

Surely India's spectacular collapse against SA qualifies for the worst batting, given the match situation and the reputation of the players who were part of the collapse. The worst bowling award should in fact go to Pakistan for the lesson they gave in "how not to bowl in the last 10 overs of an innings" in their match against NZ. It was in fact the only goof-up by what was actually the best bowling outfit of the tournament. The last time I saw so many runs being plundered in 6 overs was in an India-Australia computer game I played on EA Sports Cricket 2007.

Kamran Akmal should receive the life time achievement award in this category.How did u miss it?

What about "the mother of all goofs" Pakistan wicket keeper Kamran Akmal? He dropped more catches than he took in the world cup but he was "at his best" when during the match against NZ, in a single over of Shoaib Akhtar he didn't even try on the first chance and then dropped a dolly of Ross Taylor which Mr.Boycott's grand grand ma could've walloped..

In my list, there'll be Kamran Akmal of Pakistan at the top, with his hilarious attempts at wicketkeeping which gave rise to hundreds of internet jokes.

One more golden goof up: First toss on the Final !

Asoka de Silva refusing to reverse his decision despite getting all the needed evidence from the UDRS.
Then, of course, Haroon Lorgat made the "pebbles" comment even though no one asked him about it, only to get publicly bashed by the WI coach, following which he didn't come out of his hotel room for several weeks. :)

How can you miss the TOSS GOOF-UP during the final.
That should take the cake. Ear pieces for Crowe, the match ref.
Cheers
Satish

[Mike: I have no excuse for missing this out other than that I didn't get up and switch the TV on until just before the opening over, so I only found out about it afterwards. I didn't think it fair to include something I hadn't personally witnessed.]

Selection goofs? I can think of a few, such as: 1) SA selecting 6 batsmen for the quarter-final 2) SL changing their entire (highly successful) bowling lineup for the final 3) Australia's decision not to bring a single decent spinner to the subcontinent where even Robin Peterson turned into a fearsome bowler

in the finals toss is a controversy,meanwhile indian selection of sreesanth is lousy as a bowler he can't bowl his quota while sachin bowled two overs to fill his quota.

Hafeez,the king of goofs by scooping a wide from Munaf as if to take out icecream from bottom of an ice jar for his boss.This he did after displaying some finnest shots earlier in the most crucial semi of the entire WORLD CUP 2011

My vote goes to the BCCI's Ratnakar Shetty who odes his Master's bidding as all Admin Officers do....write a letter to Indian customs to keep the real Cup at their end so as to save rs 22 lakhs in customs duty. The Zimbabwean Criclet Board may be richer than BCCI ?

No other performance to match India's 29-9 vs SA in the Worst Batting category. In Kenya's defence: they were associates, that too lower order batsmen, against Malinga at his best. But what India did was unbelievably and grossly spectacular, especially after they had smashed Steyn,Morkel et al into a pudding till then.

Nice one Uday, the question should be "The Zimbabwean Cricket Board may be stingier than BCCI ?" Of course not. The BCCI should be hung up to dry for avoiding customs - Ultimately it goes to the nation that is providing BCCI with mammoth profits.
if BCCI can do this to customs for a prestigious World Cup, then think abt how stingy it would be in Taxes.

Wot? The biggest GOOF was hiring Ganguly, Arnold and Manjrekar as commentators. (in the context of the game hahahaha)

Kindly keep these dinosaurs out of the commentary box for future matches.

YOU FORGOT THE EPIC GOOF UP BY BILLY BOWDEN ON THE 2.5 meter lbw decision in the england-india game, which england threw down the drain in the end(had the decision been given correctly, i predict india would have hammered us)

In the umpiring section, I think Asoka de silva takes the cake. His decision to give Gary Wilson Lbw, even after using DRS, was as big a goof up as any. Surely if u bring the bat down on ball after full back lift, it doesn't qualify as playing a shot in Mr. ADS's book. But I think Irish didn't see the funny side of it all. It actually cost them the game and maybe a place in the quarters.

All of us are forgetting about a goof-up...a goof-up which may have altered WC final outcome. Yes guys, I am talking about SL team dropping a player with economy rate of about 3.5 runs/over & proving himself in the tournament whenever he got chance and making way for a player who had just landed the other night.
Well no prizes for guessing those names though!!!!!

How about Morne van Wyk taking a sleeping pill instead of a vitamin before one of the games - and then keeping wicket

Giving Tendulkar the MoM award for the most scratchy innings of the WC over Wahab Riaz for a superb spell of 5 wkts in the semi-final.

There was a clear run out in the west indian innings during their league game against the Indians. The batsman was well short of the crease with Simon Tauffel perfectly in line with the stumps to see the batsman's position when the stumps were hit. Tauffel somehow failed to realize that the batsman was out and the Indians never really appealed.... I wonder which of the two was goofier? the umpire or the fielding side???

So many goofs despite such a great world cup:

* fielding - Kamral Akmal v NZ has to be included together with the fielding for Sachin's semi-final dig & Eoin Morgan's quarter-final innings where both had more lives than a cat;

* batting - India's Powerplay collapse of 9-29 wins hands down

* toss in final - worst goof for a toss in World Cup history yet alone the 2011 version

* selections - Sri Lanka omitting Mendis in final just beats Sth Africa's batting line-up with its long tail (but I suppose that Sth Africa should always come second in World Cups!)

* administration - to limit the 2015 version to just the ten test teams with no qualification is the dumbest decision of all-time when trying to grow the sport around the world

i am not getting one point why you guys not talking of bangladesh batting collapse against the mighty low west indies. where bangladesh just managed 58 runs in theit innings and the whole game was finished within 35 overs. that seemed to me the worst batting performance.

surely kamrans so many drops and indias collapse win the title

Surely by far the best example of idiotic running was Davison for Canada vs NZ. Sets off for an easy single and starts to walk, oblivious to McCullum taking a shy from the other end of the wicket, out of his ground by about a meter

Dropping of R.Ashwin for the semis and finals [despite his impressive show in power play overs] would have won Dhoni goof-up of the tournament award too. Fortunately Dhoni had his luck and the results were different and all were forgotten
But the consistent all round goof up should go to Darren Sammy

Can anyone be more goofy than the superb Kamran Akmal through out the tournament and later Misbah, too, in the semi final ????

How about the Ausiies? Losing to Pakistan with Kamran Akmal playing.

brave cartoon moment: Brett Lee stopping the ball with his face but it still goes for 4 and they lose..lol...

@dheeman You have a valid point, but Bangaldesh collapsing is not considered a goof by most people.

I remember Matt Prior getting stumped in a comical fashion against Bangladesh. Rahim attempted a stumping and appealed. Prior left his crease and was watching the umpire, when Rahim did the stumping again. Later it turned out that Prior wasn't out in the first attempt, but got stumped on the second attempt simply because he was distracted by the appeal from the first attempt. :)

This insihgt's just the way to kick life into this debate.