Information retrieval systems are playing an important role in our day to day life for getting the required information. Many text retrieval systems are available and are working successfully. Even though internet is full of other media like images, audio and video, retrieval systems for these media are rare and have not achieved success as that of text retrieval systems. Image retrieval systems are useful in many applications; there is a high demand for effective and efficient tool for image organization and retrieval as per users need. Images are classified into text based image retrieval and content based image retrieval, we proposed a text based image retrieval system, which makes use of ontology to make the retrieval process intelligent. We worked on Cricket World Cup 2007. We combined text based image retrieval approach with content based image retrieval, which uses color and texture as basic low level features.