8.28.2010

All about 2011 Cricket World Cup:

Game table
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.

This time 14 teams are selected for participate with 2 groups A and B. 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.



Game table :

Group A: Australia, Canada, Kenya, New Zealand, Pakistan, sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.  

Group B: Bangladesh, England, India, Ierland, Netherland, South Africa,and West Indies.

After first round, 4 teams from each group will be selected for Knockout stage.

Quarter-finals:

A1 VS B4 ( 23 MARCH, DHAKA)

A2 VS B3 ( 24 MARCH, COLOMBO)

B2 VS A3 ( 25 MARCH, DHAKA)

B1 VS A4 ( 26 MARCH, AHMEDABAD)

Semi-finals:
Winner of Match 43 vs Winner of Match 44 ( 29 MARCH, COLOMBO)

Winner of Match 45 vs Winner of Match 46 ( 30 MARCH, MOHALI)

Final:
Winner of Match 47 vs Winner of Match 48 ( 2 APRIL, MUMBAI)