2011 Cricket World Cup

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 during the months of February and March 2011, with the first match being played on 19 February 2011.

The World Cup was originally to have been hosted by Pakistan as well, 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. 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. 8 of Pakistan's Matches have been awarded to India, 4 to Sri Lanka and 2 to Bangladesh.


Format

Late in 2007, the four host nations agreed upon a revised format for the 2011 World Cup, in which 14 teams will participate instead of 16. The first round of the tournament will be a round-robin similar to the one held in South Africa in the 2003 edition 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 planned 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.

As per ICC regulations, all 10 full members automatically qualify for the World Cup, including Zimbabwe who have given up their test playing status till the standard of their team improves.

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.

Teams

Team	Mode of Qualification
Australia	ICC Full Member
Bangladesh	ICC Full Member
Canada	2nd Place 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifier
England	ICC Full Member
India	ICC Full Member
/ Ireland	Winner 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifier
Kenya	4th Place 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifier
Netherlands	3rd Place 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifier
New Zealand	ICC Full Member
Pakistan	ICC Full Member
South Africa	ICC Full Member
Sri Lanka	ICC Full Member
West Indies	ICC Full Member
Zimbabwe	ICC Full Member

Groups

The fourteen teams are divided into two groups for the first stage of the tournament. The group allocations were announced on October 7,2009. The full match schedule and list of venues will be announced in Mumbai on November 9, 2009.

Group A

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

Group B

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