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 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. The opening ceremony was held on 17 February
2011 at Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka, two days before the start of the
tournament, with the final on 2 April 2011 at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.
The World Cup was also supposed to be co-hosted by Pakistan, but the
International Cricket Council (ICC) decided 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. Eight of Pakistan's matches were awarded to
India, four to Sri Lanka and two to Bangladesh.
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