After 14 Years, Cricket World Cup is finally returned toAsia (India-Sri Lanka-Bangladesh). Last time World Cup was hosted in Asia in 1996 and
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.
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. The headquarters of the organizing 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.
HISTORY OF PREVIOUSE 9TH WORLD CUP
| Year | Venue/place | Winner | 1st Runner Up |
| 1975 | England | West Indies | Australia |
| 1979 | England | West Indies | England |
| 1983 | England | India | West Indies |
| 1989 | India | Australia | England |
| 1992 | Australia | Pakistan | England |
| 1996 | India | SriLanka | Australia |
| 1999 | England | Australia | Pakistan |
| 2003 | South Africa | Australia | India |
| 2007 | West Indies | Australia | Sri Lanka |
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 four from each group qualifying for the quarter-finals. The format ensures that each team gets to play a minimum of six matches even if they are ruled out of the tournament due to early defeats. One semi-final of the tournament was officially handed over to India, after Pakistan were stripped of its rights to host the tournament.
§ The semi-final venues are the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka and PCA Stadium in Mohali, India
§ The final is scheduled to be played at the renovated Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, India.
Venues
Although all the Indian stadiums for the 2011 World Cup had been finalised before but the venues of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka were finalised afterwards 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. 2 new stadiums in Sri Lanka are being constructed exclusively for the 2011 World Cup. They are located in Kandy and Hambantota.
City Stadium Capacity
1) India
Kolkata Eden Gardens 82,000(being upgraded)
New Delhi Feroz Shah Kotla 48,000
Chennai M.A. Chidambaram Stadium 46,000(being upgrade)
Mumbai Wankhede Stadium 45,000 ( Planned )
Mohali Punjab Cricket Association Stadium 35,000
Nagpur Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium 45,000
Bangalore M. Chinnaswamy Stadium 42000
2) Sri Lanka
Colombo R. Premadasa Stadium 35,000
Kandy Pallekele International Cricket Stadium(New) 35,000
(New Stadium)
Hambantota Suriyawewa Stadium (New) 33,000
3) Bangladesh
Dhaka Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium 35,000
Chittagong Chittagong Divisional Stadium 20,000
