Cricket World Cup 2011

The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup will be the tenth Cricket World Cup & will be hosted by three South Asian Check cricket playing countries: India, Sri Lanka & Bangladesh. It will be Bangladesh's first time co-hosting a Cricket World Cup. The World Cup will use cricket's One Day International format, with fourteen national cricket teams scheduled to compete. The World Cup will happen in the work of February & March 2011, with the first match to be played on 19 February 2011 with co-hosts India & Bangladesh facing off at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur.

The World Cup was also to be co-hosted by Pakistan, but in the wake of the 2009 assault on the Sri Lanka national cricket team in Lahore, the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab, the International Cricket Council (ICC) were forced to strip Pakistan of its hosting rights. The headquarters of the organising committee were originally situated in Lahore, but have now been shifted to Mumbai. Pakistan was supposed to hold 14 matches, including one semi-final. Seven of Pakistan's matches have been awarded to India, three to Sri Lanka & seven to Bangladesh.

Schedule For Matches Of World Cup 2011

Date	Match Details	Venue
Feb 19, 2011	Bangladesh vs India , 1st ODI Match	Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
Feb 20, 2011	New Zealand vs Kenya , 2nd ODI Match	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai
Feb 20, 2011	Sri Lanka vs Canada , 3rd ODI Match	Hambantota Cricket Stadium, Hambantota
Feb 21, 2011	Australia vs Zimbabwe , 4th ODI Match	Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad
Feb 22, 2011	England vs Netherlands , 5th ODI Match	Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur
Feb 23, 2011	Pakistan vs Canada , 6th ODI Match	Hambantota Cricket Stadium, Hambantota
Feb 24, 2011	South Africa vs West Indies , 7th ODI Match	Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Feb 25, 2011	Australia vs New Zealand , 8th ODI Match	Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur
Feb 25, 2011	Bangladesh vs Ireland , 9th ODI Match	Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
Feb 26, 2011	Pakistan vs Sri Lanka , 10th ODI Match	R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Feb 27, 2011	India vs England , 11th ODI Match	Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Feb 28, 2011	Canada vs Zimbabwe , 13th ODI Match	Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur
Feb 28, 2011	West Indies vs Netherlands , 12th ODI Match	Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Mar 1, 2011	Sri Lanka vs Kenya , 14th ODI Match	R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Mar 2, 2011	England vs Ireland , 15th ODI Match	M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Mar 3, 2011	Pakistan vs Canada , 17th ODI Match	R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Mar 3, 2011	South Africa vs Netherlands , 16th ODI Match	Punjab C.A. Stadium, Mohali
Mar 4, 2011	New Zealand vs Zimbabwe , 18th ODI Match	Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad
Mar 4, 2011	Bangladesh vs West Indies , 19th ODI Match	Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
Mar 5, 2011	Australia vs Sri Lanka , 20th ODI Match	R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Mar 6, 2011	India vs Ireland , 21st ODI Match	M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Mar 6, 2011	South Africa vs England , 22nd ODI Match	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai
Mar 7, 2011	Canada vs Kenya , 23rd ODI Match	Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Mar 8, 2011	Pakistan vs New Zealand , 24th ODI Match	Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Kandy
Mar 9, 2011	India vs Netherlands , 25th ODI Match	Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Mar 10, 2011	Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe , 26th ODI Match	Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Kandy
Mar 11, 2011	West Indies vs Ireland , 27th ODI Match	Punjab C.A. Stadium, Mohali
Mar 11, 2011	Bangladesh vs England , 28th ODI Match	Jahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong
Mar 12, 2011	India vs South Africa , 29th ODI Match	Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur
Mar 13, 2011	New Zealand vs Canada , 30th ODI Match	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
Mar 13, 2011	Australia vs Kenya , 31st ODI Match	M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Mar 14, 2011	Pakistan vs Zimbabwe , 32nd ODI Match	Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Kandy
Mar 14, 2011	Bangladesh vs Netherlands , 33rd ODI Match	Jahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong
Mar 15, 2011	South Africa vs Ireland , 34th ODI Match	Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Mar 16, 2011	Australia vs Canada , 35th ODI Match	M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Mar 17, 2011	England vs West Indies , 36th ODI Match	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai
Mar 18, 2011	Sri Lanka vs New Zealand , 37th ODI Match	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
Mar 18, 2011	Ireland vs Netherlands , 38th ODI Match	Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Mar 19, 2011	Pakistan vs Australia , 39th ODI Match	R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Mar 19, 2011	Bangladesh vs South Africa , 40th ODI Match	Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
Mar 20, 2011	Zimbabwe vs Kenya , 41st ODI Match	Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Mar 20, 2011	India vs West Indies , 42nd ODI Match	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai
Mar 23, 2011	TBC vs TBC , 1st Quarter Final ODI Match	Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
Mar 24, 2011	TBC vs TBC , 2nd Quarter Final ODI Match	R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Mar 25, 2011	TBC vs TBC , 3rd Quarter Final ODI Match	Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
Mar 26, 2011	TBC vs TBC , 4th Quarter Final ODI Match	Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad
Mar 29, 2011	TBC vs TBC , 1st Semi Final ODI Match	R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Mar 30, 2011	TBC vs TBC , 2nd Semi Final ODI Match	Punjab C.A. Stadium, Mohali
Apr 2, 2011	TBC vs TBC , The Final ODI Match	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

World Cup 2011 Matches

Cricket Schedule of ICC World Cup 2011. Fixtures of ICC World Cup 2011 has been announced. The first match of ICC World Cup 2011 will start between Bangladesh vs India. Keep viewing CriSchedule for latest updates on Cricket Schedule and Fixtures. The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup will be the tenth Cricket World Cup, and will be hosted by four South Asian Check cricket playing countries; India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. It will be Bangladesh\'s first time co-hosting a Cricket World Cup. The World Cup will use cricket\'s One Day International format, with fourteen national cricket teams scheduled to compete. The World Cup will happen in the coursework of the months of February and March 2011, with the first match being played on 19 February 2011. Earlier Pakistan was also awarded co-host but later taken off after terrorist assault on Sri Lankan Team in Lahore.

Bids Of World Cup 2011

The ICC originally announced its decision on which countries would host the 2011 World Cup on 30 April 2006. Australia and New Zealand also bid for the event, and a successful Australasian bid for the 2011 World Cup would have seen a 50-50 split in games, with the final still up for negotiation. The Trans–Tasman bid, Beyond Boundaries, was the only bid for 2011 delivered to ICC headquarters in Dubai ahead of the 1 March deadline. Considerable merits of the Australasian bid were the superior venues and infrastructure and the total support of both the New Zealand and Australian governments on tax and customs issues in the coursework of the event, according to Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland. The New Zealand government had also given assurance that Zimbabwe would be allowed to compete in the event, following political discussions in the country whether their cricket team ought to be allowed to tour Zimbabwe in 2005. The Australian bid also won the support of former West Indies captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul.

ICC President Ehsan Mani said the additional time taken by the Asian block to hand over its bid compliance book had harmed the four-nation bid. However, when the time came to vote, Asia won the hosting rights by six votes to four. The Pakistan Cricket Board has revealed that it was the vote of the West Indies Cricket Board that swung the matter, as the Asian bid had the support of the four bidding countries along with South Africa and Zimbabwe. It was reported in Pakistani newspaper Dawn that the Asian countries promised to hold fundraising events for West Indian cricket in the coursework of the 2007 World Cup, which may have influenced the vote. However, chairman of the Monitoring Committee of the Asian bid, I. S. Bindra, said it was their promise of additional profits in the region of US$ 400 million that swung the vote, that there "was no quid pro quo for their support", and that playing the West Indies had "nothing to do with the World Cup bid".

ICC prefers to rotate World Cup venues between major cricket playing nations. The world cups have been hosted by England (Once 1975,79,83) India/Pakistan 1987, Australia/New Zealand 1992, India/Pakistan/Sri Lanka 1996, England (UK,Netherlands) 1999, South Africa (Zimbabwe,Kenya) 2003, West Indies 2007. For the 2011 World Cup Australia/New Zealand were a powerful contender ahead of India/Pakistan/Sri Lanka/Bangladesh because they had not hosted a World cup since 1992. In the final voting India won because they argued that since they were a bigger group of countries they ought to be assigned a World cup more often. Due to this, Australia/New Zealand were awarded the 2015 World Cup.

Pakistan stripped of co-host status

Pakistan were stripped of its rights as co-host of the 2011 World Cup by the ICC on 17 April 2009 due to ongoing concerns about the "uncertain security situation" prevailing in the country, in the aftermath of terrorist assaults in Lahore in the coursework of Sri Lanka's tour in 2009.

The Pakistan Cricket Board has hinted that it may refuse to participate in the World Cup in the event that they are asked to play in India. However, there is no concrete facts whether this will actually happen.

It is estimated that the PCB will lose $10.5 million due to the match being taken away from them. This figure only includes the match-fee of $750,000 per match guaranteed by the ICC. The general loss to the PCB & the Pakistani economy is expected to be much greater.

On 9 April 2009, PCB chairman Ijaz Butt revealed that they had issued a legal notice to oppose ICC's decision. However, the ICC claims that the PCB is still a co-host & they have only shifted the matches out of Pakistan. Pakistan have proposed that South Asia host the 2015 World Cup & Australia/New Zealand host 2011, however this option has not found favour with their co-hosts & hence seems unlikely.

Allocation of matches

On 11 April 2005, Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Shaharyar Khan announced an agreement about the allocation of games. The original plan involved India hosting the final, while Pakistan and Sri Lanka would host the semi-finals. and the opening ceremony will happen in Bangladesh.

After being stripped of its co-host status, Pakistan made the bid to host its home games in the cities of UAE as a neutral home venue. This is in response to the fact that the last few months of cricket that Pakistan has played, has been in the cities of Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah. The pitches in these stadia have also been developed to suit the Pakistani players. This would not harm any timing schedules as there's regular flights from the city of Mumbai to Dubai.

However, on 28 April 2009, the ICC announced the re-allocation of matches originally intended to be played in Pakistan. As a result, India will now host 29 matches across six venues including the final and one semi-final; Sri Lanka will host 12 in five venues, including one semi-final; while Bangladesh will stage six at two grounds as well as the opening ceremony on 18 February 2011.

On 1 June 2010, the first phase of tickets for the 2011 World Cup in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh have been put on sale following a gathering of the tournament's Central Organising Committee in Mumbai. The tickets have been priced affordably, with the lowest priced costing 20 cents US in Sri Lanka, the committee said.

Format

Late in 2007, the three host nations agreed on a revised format for the 2011 World Cup, in which 14 teams will participate in lieu of 16. The first round of the event will be a round-robin similar to the one held in South Africa in the 2003 edition in which the 14 teams are divided in to 2 groups of 7 teams each. The 7 teams play each other four times with the top three from each group qualifying for the quarter-finals. The format ensures that each team gets to play a maximum of three matches even in the event that they are ruled out of the event due to early defeats. One semi-final of the event was officially handed over to India, after Pakistan were stripped of its rights to host the event.
• The planned semi-final venues are the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka & PCA Stadium in Mohali, India.
• The final is scheduled to be played at the renovated Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, India.

Prize Money

The 2011 Cricket World Cup winning team would be taking home a prize money of US$ 4 million, with the International Cricket Council deciding to double the total allocation for the coveted event to US$ 10 millon. The decision was taken at the ICC Board meeting which was held in Dubai on April 20, 2010.

Coverage

The World Cup has grown as a media event with each event. International Cricket Council has sold the rights for broadcasting of 2011 Cricket World Cup for around US$ 2 Billion to ESPN Star Sports. The event would be broadcasted all around the globe in about 220 countries.