Whilst the team prize of lifting the ICC World Cup is uppermost in everyone’s minds, there are some key milestones that are around the corner for some of the players.

Zimbabwe has played reasonably frequently in Bangladesh and has experience in the subcontinental conditions, which suit its spin-oriented bowling attack led by Ray Price and Prosper Utseya

Darren Sammy captains the team and former paceman Ottis Gibson is the coach. Chris Gayle, and Darren Bravo hold the key to Windies success. Batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan and wicket-keeper Denesh Ramdin - who were both not named in the recently-cancelled One-Day International series in Sri Lanka, are named in the squad.

Netherlands have played in 3 world cups in 1996, 2003 and 2007. Peter Borren captains them this time with Peter Drinnen (Australia) their coach. They have a World Cup win-loss record of 2-12. They have had recent success after defeating Bangladesh and Zimbabwe in 2010.

Ireland stunned Pakistan and made the Super 8 round in 2007. William Porterfield leads them this time with Phil Simmons (West Indies) handling the coaching duties.

New Zealand have gone through a recent horror run in ODIs after losing successive series in Bangladesh and then at home to the erratic Pakistani’s recently.

Kenya stunned the world when they reached the semifinals in the 2003 world cup. In 2011, they are led by skipper Jimmy Kamande and coached by former West Indies allrounder Eldine Baptiste.

Canada has never proceeded past Round 1 despite having appeared in 1979, 2003 and 2007. They are led by Ashish Bagai and coached by former Sri Lanka wicket keeper Pubudu Dassanayake.