The
2011 ICC Cricket World Cup is the tenth
Cricket World Cup and is being played in
Bangladesh,
India and
Sri Lanka. It is Bangladesh's first time co-hosting a World Cup. All matches in the World Cup will be accorded
One Day International status, with all matches being played over 50 overs. Fourteen national cricket teams will compete in the tournament, including ten
full members and four
associate members.
[1] The World Cup will take place between February and early April 2011, with the first match played on 19 February 2011 with co-hosts
India and
Bangladesh facing off at the
Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in
Mirpur, Dhaka.
[2] The opening ceremony was held on 17 February 2011 at
Bangabandhu National Stadium,
Dhaka, two days before the start of the tournament,
[3] with the final on 2 April 2011 at
Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.
The World Cup was also supposed to be co-hosted by Pakistan, but in the wake of the
2009 attack on the
Sri Lanka national cricket team in
Lahore, the
International Cricket Council (ICC) decided to strip Pakistan of its hosting rights.
[4] The headquarters of the organising committee were originally situated in Lahore, but have now been shifted to Mumbai.
[5] Pakistan was supposed to hold 14 matches, including one semi-final.
[6] Eight of Pakistan's matches were awarded to India, four to Sri Lanka and two to Bangladesh.
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