WORLD CUP CRICKET 2011

 2011 Cricket World Cup Logo

Administrator(s)                     International Cricket Council 

Cricket format                        One-Day International

Tournament format(s)          Round robin and Knockout

Host(s)                                                                India 

                                                                          Sri Lanka 

                                                                        Bangladesh

Champions                             TBD

Participants                            14 (from 104 entrants)

Matches played                     49 (to be played)

Official website                      ICC World Cup Site

The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup will be the tenth Cricket World Cup and will be hosted by three South Asian Test 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[1] to compete.The World Cup will take place between February and early April 2011, with the first match to be played on 19 February 2011 with co-hosts India and 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 attack 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.

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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.Eight of Pakistan's matches have been awarded to India,four to Sri Lanka and two to Bangladesh.