After
14 Years,Cricket World Cup is finally returned to Asia (India-Sri
Lanka-Bangladesh).Last time World Cup was hosted in Asia in the year 1996 and Sri Lanka
emerge winners of the ICC Wills World Cup. Unfortunately, Pakistan will
not host any games of 2011 world cup,because of security concern.
ICC
has tried their best to shorten the 2011 world cup as compared to 2007 world
cup. So there will be 49 number of games will be played in 2011 as compared to 51
in 2007. Also the length of the tournament will be shorten by a week. Out of
forty nine games, India will
host 29 matches, Sri Lanka
will host 12 matches and 8 games will be hosted by Bangladesh.India will host one quarter final in
Ahmedabad, one semi final in Mohali and Final of World Cup 2011 in Wankhede
Stadium, Mumbai. While Sri Lanka
will host the 2nd quarterfinal and 1st semi final in R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo and Bangladesh
will host 1st and 3rd quarterfinal in Mirpur, Dhaka.
Fourteen teams will participate in 2011 World Cup and divided into two groups each containing seven teams. Group A contains Australia, Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Canada while Group B includes India, South Africa, England, West Indies, Bangladesh, Ireland and Netherlands.
The tournament will start
with the game between India
and Bangladesh on February
19th at Mirpur, Dhaka and tournament will ends
with the Final on April 2 in renovated Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. There will be
total 13 venues will be used for the tournament. First quarter final will be
played on March 23rd in Mirpur, while second quarter final will be played on
March 24th in Ahmedabad. Third quarterfinal will be played in Mirpur on 25th
March and fourth quarterfinal will be hosted by Sri
Lanka in Colombo
on March 26th 2011. First semi final will be played on 29th March in Colombo and second semi
final will be played on March 30th in Mohali.
Groups:
Group B - India , England , South Africa , West Indies ,Bangladesh,Ireland ,Netherlands.
Previous ICC World Cup Winners
1975 – West Indies
1979 – West Indies
1983 – India
1987 – Australia
1992 – Pakistan
1996 – Sri Lanka
1999 – Australia
2003 – Australia
2007 - Australia
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