WC 2011

This article documents a current Cricket World Cup. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses. (19 February 2011 - 2 April 2011)

ICC Cricket World Cup 2011
Official Logo of the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup.
Dates	19 February – 2 April
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 Cricket 2011
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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, Dhaka.^[2] The opening ceremony will be 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 have been awarded to India, four to Sri Lanka and two to Bangladesh.^[7]

Contents [hide] 1 Host selection 1.1 Bids 2 Format 3 Qualification 4 Preparations 4.1 Pakistan stripped of co-host status 4.2 Allocation of matches 5 Opening Ceremony 6 Prize 6.1 Trophy 6.2 Prize money 7 Venues 7.1 Mascot 7.2 Official song 7.3 Ambassador 8 Media coverage 9 Umpires 10 Squads 11 Matches 11.1 Warm-up matches 11.2 Group stage 11.2.1 Group A 11.2.2 Group B 11.3 Knockout stage 11.3.1 Quarter-Finals 11.3.2 Semi-Finals 11.3.3 Final 12 See also 13 References and notes 14 External links

Host selection

Bids

The ICC originally announced its decision which countries would host the 2011 World Cup on 30 April 2006. Australia and New Zealand also bid for the tournament, 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 during the tournament, according to Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland.^[8] The New Zealand government had also given assurance that Zimbabwe would be allowed to compete in the tournament, following political discussions in the country whether their cricket team should be allowed to tour Zimbabwe in 2005.
ICC President Ehsan Mani said the extra 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 seven votes to three.^[8] 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.^[9] It was reported in Pakistani newspaper Dawn that the Asian countries promised to hold fund-raising events for West Indian cricket during the 2007 World Cup, which may have influenced the vote.^[10] However, chairman of the Monitoring Committee of the Asian bid, I. S. Bindra, said it was their promise of extra profits in the region of US$ 400 million that swung the vote,^[11] that there "was no quid pro quo for their support",^[12] and that playing the West Indies had "nothing to do with the World Cup bid".^[12]
ICC prefers to rotate World Cup venues between major cricket playing nations. The world cups have been hosted by England (Three times 1975,1979,1983), 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 strong 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 should be assigned a World cup more frequently. Due to this, Australia/New Zealand were awarded the 2015 World Cup.

Format

Late in 2007, the four host nations agreed upon a revised format for the 2011 World Cup identical to the 1996 World Cup, the only change being the no. of teams as it was 12 in 1996 and 14 in 2011. The first round of the tournament will be a round-robin in which the 14 teams are divided into 2 groups of 7 teams each. The 7 teams play each other once with the top 4 from each group qualifying for the quarter-finals.^[13] The format ensures that each team gets to play a minimum of 6 matches even if they are ruled out of the tournament due to early defeats.

Qualification

Main articles: ICC World Cricket League 2007-09 and 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifier

Teams qualified for the World Cup

Group A	Group B
Full Members
Australia	Bangladesh
New Zealand	England
Pakistan	India
Sri Lanka	South Africa
Zimbabwe	West Indies
Associate Members
Canada	Ireland
Kenya	Netherlands

As per ICC regulations, all 10 full members automatically qualify for the World Cup.
The ICC also organised a qualifying tournament in South Africa to determine which Associate teams would participate in 2011 event. Ireland, who had been the best performing Associate nation since the last World Cup, won the tournament, beating Canada in the final. The Netherlands and Kenya also qualified by virtue of finishing third and fourth respectively.^[14]

Preparations

Pakistan stripped of co-host status

Pakistan was stripped of its rights as co-host of the 2011 World Cup by the ICC on 17 April 2009^[15][16] due to ongoing concerns about the "uncertain security situation" prevailing in the country, especially in the aftermath of terrorist attacks in Lahore during Sri Lanka's tour in 2009.
It is estimated that the PCB will lose $10.5 million due to the tournament being taken away from them.^[17] This figure only includes the match-fee of $750,000 per match guaranteed by the ICC. The overall loss to the PCB and 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.^[18] However, the ICC claims that PCB is still a co-host and they have only shifted the matches out of Pakistan.^[19] Pakistan had proposed that South Asia host the 2015 World Cup and Australia/New Zealand host 2011, however this option did not find favour with their co-hosts and hence didn't materialise.^[20]

Allocation of matches

On 11 April 2005, Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Shaharyar Khan announced an agreement about the allocation of games.^[21] The original plan involved India hosting the final, while Pakistan and Sri Lanka would host the semi-finals.^[22] and the opening ceremony will take place in Bangladesh.^[23]
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 a result of Pakistan playing matches in the preceding months in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah. The pitches in these stadiums have also been developed to suit the Pakistani players. This would not harm any timing schedules as there are 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 eight venues including the final and one semi-final; Sri Lanka will host 12 in three venues, including one semi-final; while Bangladesh will stage 8 at two grounds as well as the opening ceremony on 17 February 2011.^[24]
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 meeting of the tournament's Central Organising Committee in Mumbai. The tickets have been priced affordably, with the cheapest costing 20 cents US in Sri Lanka, the committee said.^[25] In January 2011, the ICC declared the Eden Gardens ground in Kolkata, India to be unfit and unlikely to be complete by 27 February when it was scheduled to host a match between India and England. As a result, the match was moved to Bangalore.^[26]

Opening Ceremony

Main article: 2011 Cricket World Cup opening ceremony

The Opening Ceremony was held in Bangladesh. The venue for the opening ceremony was Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The event took place on 17 February 2011, 2 days prior to the first match of the World Cup.

Prize

The ICC World Cup Trophy

Trophy

Main article: Cricket World Cup Trophy

The ICC Cricket World Cup Trophy is a running trophy, presented to the winning team since 1999. It was designed by Garrard & Co within 2 months. The original trophy is kept with the ICC at headquarters in Dubai. The winning team is given a replica. The only difference between the two is that the original has the names of all the previous winners inscribed on it.

Prize money

The 2011 Cricket World Cup winning team would be taking home a prize money of US$ 3 million and US$ 1.5 million for runner-up, with the International Cricket Council deciding to double the total allocation for the coveted tournament to US$ 10 million. The decision was taken at the ICC Board meeting which was held in Dubai on April 20, 2010.^[27][28] The total prize money on offer for the tournament for the teams placing from 1st to 8th is US$7.48 million.^[29]
As usual the bulk of the net proceeds of the tournament will be distributed by the ICC to its member associations. This is expected to amount to several hundred million U.S. dollars.

Venues

All the Indian stadiums for the 2011 World Cup had been finalized ^[30] earlier, and the venues of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka were finalised in late October 2009. All the venues of the 2011 Cricket World Cup were announced on 2 November 2009 in Mumbai by the International Cricket Council. Two new stadiums in Sri Lanka have been constructed for the World Cup. They are located in Kandy and Hambantota.^[31]

Venue	City	Capacity
India
Eden Gardens	Kolkata	90,000
MA Chidambaram Stadium	Chennai	50,000
Feroz Shah Kotla	New Delhi	48,000
Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium	Nagpur	45,000
Sardar Patel Stadium	Ahmedabad	50,000
Wankhede Stadium	Mumbai	45,000
Punjab Cricket Association Stadium	Mohali	35,000
M Chinnaswamy Stadium	Bangalore	42,000
Srilanka
R Premadasa Stadium	Colombo	35,000
Muttiah Muralitharan International Cricket Stadium	Kandy	35,000
Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium	Hambantota	35,000
Bangladesh
Chittagong Divisional Stadium	Chittagong	20,000
Shere Bangla National Stadium	Dhaka	25,000

Kolkata New Delhi Ahmedabad Chennai Mohali Nagpur Bangalore Mumbai Venues in India

Colombo Hambantota Kandy Venues in Sri Lanka

Chittagong Dhaka Venues in Bangladesh

Mascot

Stumpy

Main article: Stumpy

Stumpy is the official mascot for the 2011 Cricket World Cup.^[32] He was unveiled at a function in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Friday, 2 April 2010. He is a ten year old elephant who is enthusiastic and is determined. Cricket-followers based all over the world were able to participate in a contest to name the mascot.^[33] The official name of the mascot was released on Monday, 2 August 2010 after an online competition conducted by the International Cricket Council in the last week of July, 2010.^[34] It was unveiled by players like Sachin Tendulkar, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Kumar Sangakara with 200 days to go for the world cup.^[35]

Official song

	De Ghuma Ke The official song of the 2011 World Cup
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Main article: De Ghuma Ke

The official song of the 2010 World Cup "De Ghuma Ke" is composed by the trio of Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy, and is sung in Hindi, Bangla and Sinhala.^[36] It has been sung by Shankar Mahadevan and Divya Kumar and has been marketed by Ogilvy and Mather. It incorporates an array of Indian rhythms, as well as elements of rock and hip-hop. The song will be performed in the opening ceremony of the tournament to be held in Bangladesh on February 17, 2011.^[37]

Ambassador

Sachin Tendulkar

The official event ambassador for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 is Sachin Tendulkar.^[38] He will promote and support various ICC initiatives for the tournament.

Media coverage

Main article: List of 2011 Cricket World Cup broadcasting rights

The World Cup has grown as a media event with each tournament. International Cricket Council has sold the rights for broadcasting of 2011 Cricket World Cup for around US$ 2 Billion to ESPN Star Sports and Star Cricket. The tournament would be broadcast all around the world in about 220 countries.^{[39][citation needed]}

Umpires

Main article: 2011 Cricket World Cup officials

The Umpire selection panel selected 18 umpires excluding a reserve umpire, Enamul Haque to officiate at the World Cup: 5 from Australia, 6 from Asia, 3 from England, 2 from New Zealand and 1 each from South Africa and West Indies.

Australia Simon Taufel Steve Davis Rod Tucker Daryl Harper Bruce Oxenford New Zealand Billy Bowden Tony Hill

South Africa Marais Erasmus Pakistan Aleem Dar Asad Rauf India Shavir Tarapore Amiesh Saheba

England Ian Gould Richard Kettleborough Nigel Llong Sri Lanka Asoka de Silva Kumar Dharmasena West Indies Billy Doctrove

Squads

Main article: 2011 Cricket World Cup squads

Each country, before selecting their final squads chose a 30-member preliminary squad for the tournament which then would be cut down to 15. All 14 teams announced their final squad before 19th Jan, 2011.

Matches

Main article: 2011 Cricket World Cup schedule

Warm-up matches

Main article: 2011 Cricket World Cup warm-up matches

The following 14 warm-up matches are scheduled to be played before the World Cup starts.^[40][41]

12 February 2011 Scorecard

West Indies  253/8 (50 overs)

v

Kenya 192 (45.3 overs)

West Indies won by 61 runs R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

12 February 2011 Scorecard

Sri Lanka  351/5 (50 overs)

v

Netherlands 195 (47.3 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 156 runs Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo

12 February 2011 (D/N) Scorecard

Canada  112 (37.3 overs)

v

Bangladesh 113/1 (19.2 overs)

Bangladesh won by 9 wickets Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong

12 February 2011 (D/N) Scorecard

New Zealand  311/6 (50 overs)

v

Ireland 279 (48.2 overs)

New Zealand won by 32 runs Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur

12 February 2011 (D/N) Scorecard

Zimbabwe  152 (41.5 overs)

v

South Africa 153/2 (23.3 overs)

South Africa won by 8 wickets MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

13 February 2011 (D/N) Scorecard

India  214 (44.3 overs)

v

Australia 176 (37.5 overs)

India won by 38 runs M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

15 February 2011 Scorecard

Zimbabwe  244/8 (50 overs)

v

Ireland 245/6 (49.3 overs)

Ireland won by 4 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur

15 February 2011 Scorecard

Kenya  263/5 (50 overs)

v

Netherlands 264/8 (49.1 overs)

Netherlands won by 2 wickets Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo

15 February 2011 (D/N) Scorecard

Pakistan  285/9 (50 overs)

v

Bangladesh 196 (41.4 overs)

Pakistan won by 89 runs Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur, Dhaka

15 February 2011 (D/N) Scorecard

Australia  217 (47.1 overs)

v

South Africa 218/1 (44.2 overs)

South Africa won by 9 wickets M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

15 February 2011 (D/N) Scorecard

West Indies  281 (50 overs)

v

Sri Lanka 282/6 (47.3 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 4 wickets R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

16 February 2011 Scorecard

England  243 (49.4 overs)

v

Canada 227 (46.1 overs)

England won by 16 runs Narayanganj Osmani Stadium, Fatullah

16 February 2011 (D/N) Scorecard

India  360/5 (50 overs)

v

New Zealand 243 (43.1 overs)

India won by 117 runs M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

18 February 2011 Scorecard

England

v

Pakistan

TBD Narayanganj Osmani Stadium, Fatullah

Group stage

Group A

Main article: 2011 Cricket World Cup Group A

Team	Pld	W	T	L	NR	NRR	Pts
Australia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
New Zealand	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pakistan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sri Lanka	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Canada	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kenya	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Zimbabwe	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

20 February 2011

New Zealand

v

Kenya

Match 2 M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

20 February 2011 (D/N)

Sri Lanka

v

Canada

Match 3 Hambantota International Cricket Stadium, Hambantota

21 February 2011 (D/N)

Australia

v

Zimbabwe

Match 4 Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad

23 February 2011 (D/N)

Pakistan

v

Kenya

Match 6 Hambantota International Cricket Stadium, Hambantota

25 February 2011 (D/N)

New Zealand

v

Australia

Match 8 Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur

26 February 2011 (D/N)

Sri Lanka

v

Pakistan

Match 10 R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

28 February 2011

Zimbabwe

v

Canada

Match 13 Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur

1 March 2011 (D/N)

Sri Lanka

v

Kenya

Match 14 R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

3 March 2011 (D/N)

Pakistan

v

Canada

Match 17 R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

4 March 2011

New Zealand

v

Zimbabwe

Match 18 Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad

5 March 2011 (D/N)

Sri Lanka

v

Australia

Match 20 R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

7 March 2011 (D/N)

Kenya

v

Canada

Match 23 Feroz Shah Kotla, New Delhi

8 March 2011 (D/N)

Pakistan

v

New Zealand

Match 24 Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy

10 March 2011 (D/N)

Sri Lanka

v

Zimbabwe

Match 26 Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy

13 March 2011

New Zealand

v

Canada

Match 30 Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

13 March 2011 (D/N)

Australia

v

Kenya

Match 31 M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

14 March 2011 (D/N)

Pakistan

v

Zimbabwe

Match 32 Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy

16 March 2011 (D/N)

Australia

v

Canada

Match 35 M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

18 March 2011 (D/N)

Sri Lanka

v

New Zealand

Match 37 Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

19 March 2011 (D/N)

Pakistan

v

Australia

Match 39 R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

20 March 2011

Zimbabwe

v

Kenya

Match 41 Eden Gardens, Kolkata

Group B

Main article: 2011 Cricket World Cup Group B

Team	Pld	W	T	L	NR	NRR	Pts
India	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
England	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
South Africa	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
West Indies	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bangladesh	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Netherlands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ireland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

19 February 2011 (D/N)

India

v

Bangladesh

Match 1 Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Dhaka

22 February 2011 (D/N)

England

v

Netherlands

Match 5 Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur

24 February 2011 (D/N)

South Africa

v

West Indies

Match 7 Feroz Shah Kotla, New Delhi

25 February 2011

Bangladesh

v

Ireland

Match 9 Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Dhaka

27 February 2011 (D/N)

India

v

England

Match 11 M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

28 February 2011 (D/N)

West Indies

v

Netherlands

Match 12 Feroz Shah Kotla, New Delhi

2 March 2011 (D/N)

England

v

Ireland

Match 15 M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

3 March 2011 (D/N)

South Africa

v

Netherlands

Match 16 Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali

4 March 2011 (D/N)

Bangladesh

v

West Indies

Match 19 Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Dhaka

6 March 2011 (D/N)

India

v

Ireland

Match 21 M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

6 March 2011

England

v

South Africa

Match 22 M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

9 March 2011 (D/N)

India

v

Netherlands

Match 25 Feroz Shah Kotla, New Delhi

11 March 2011

Ireland

v

West Indies

Match 27 Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali

11 March 2011 (D/N)

Bangladesh

v

England

Match 28 Chittagong Divisional Stadium, Chittagong

12 March 2011 (D/N)

India

v

South Africa

Match 29 Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur

14 March 2011 (D/N)

Bangladesh

v

Netherlands

Match 33 Chittagong Divisional Stadium, Chittagong

15 March 2011 (D/N)

South Africa

v

Ireland

Match 34 Eden Gardens, Kolkata

17 March 2011 (D/N)

England

v

West Indies

Match 36 M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

18 March 2011

Ireland

v

Netherlands

Match 38 Eden Gardens, Kolkata

19 March 2011

Bangladesh

v

South Africa

Match 40 Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Dhaka

20 March 2011 (D/N)

India

v

West Indies

Match 42 M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

Knockout stage

Main article: 2011 Cricket World Cup knockout stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	23 March – Dhaka, Bangladesh
					29 March – Colombo, Sri Lanka
	24 March – Ahmedabad, India
									2 April – Mumbai, India
	25 March – Dhaka, Bangladesh
					30 March – Mohali, India
	26 March – Colombo, Sri Lanka

Quarter-Finals

23 March 2011 (D/N)

Group A1

v

Group B4

Match 43 Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Dhaka

24 March 2011 (D/N)

Group A2

v

Group B3

Match 44 Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad

25 March 2011 (D/N)

Group A3

v

Group B2

Match 45 Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Dhaka

26 March 2011 (D/N)

Group A4

v

Group B1

Match 46 R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Semi-Finals

29 March 2011 (D/N)

Winner of Match 43

v

Winner of Match 45

Match 47 R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

30 March 2011 (D/N)

Winner of Match 44

v

Winner of Match 46

Match 48 Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali

Final

Main article: 2011 Cricket World Cup Final

2 April 2011 (D/N)

Winner of Match 47

v

Winner of Match 48

Match 49 Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai