After a Long time ICC Cricket World Cup is finally come back to Asia — India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Last time ICC World Cup was hosted by Asian Country in 1996 and Sri Lanka emerge winners of the ICC Wills World Cup. Unfortunately, this time Pakistan will not host any games of 2011 world cup because of security concern.
International Cricket Council (ICC) has tried their best to shorten the 2011 world cup as compared to 2007 world cup. So there will be 49th 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 49th 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.
14 teams will participate in 2011 World Cup. They were divided into two groups each containing 7 teams. Group A have Australia, Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Canada and Group B have India, South Africa, England, West Indies, Bangladesh, Ireland and Netherlands.
1st quarter final will be played on March 23rd in Mirpur, while 2nd quarter final will be played on March 24th in Ahmedabad. 3rd quarterfinal will be played in Mirpur on25th March and 4th quarterfinal will be hosted by Sri Lanka in Colombo on March 26th2011. 1st semi final will be played on 29th March in Colombo and 2nd semi final will be played on March 30th in Mohali.
There will be total 13 venues will be used for the tournament. The tournament will starts on February 19th at Mirpur, Dhaka with the game between India and Bangladesh and tournament will ends with the Final on April 2, 2011 in Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.