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2011 Cricket World Cup

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ICC Cricket World Cup 2011

Official Logo of the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup.

Dates 19 February – 2 April 2011

Administrator(s) International Cricket Council

Cricket format One-Day International

Tournament format(s) Round robin and Knockout

Host(s) Bangladesh

India

Sri Lanka

Champions TBD

Participants 14 (from 104 entrants)

Matches played 42 out of 49 scheduled to be played

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Most runs Kumar Sangakkara

Most wickets Shahid Afridi

Official website cricket.yahoo.com

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The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup is the tenth Cricket World Cup and is being played in Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka. It is

Bangladesh's first time co-hosting a World Cup. All matches in the World Cup will be accorded One Day Internationalstatus, with all

matches being played over 50 overs. Fourteen national cricket teams will compete in the tournament, including ten full

members and fourassociate members.[1] The World Cup will take place between February and early April 2011, with the first match

played on 19 February 2011 with co-hosts India andBangladesh facing off at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur, Dhaka.
[2]
The opening ceremony was 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 (including the semi-final) were awarded to India, four to Sri Lanka

and two to Bangladesh.[7]

The biggest upset of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 has been the defeat of England by Ireland.[8] Ireland's Kevin O'Brien made

100 in just 50 balls (and a total of 113 off 63 balls), the fastest World Cup Century and Ireland made the highest successful run

chase in World Cup history beating Sri Lanka's 313 against Zimbabwe at New Plymouth in New Zealand in 1992.[9]

Contents

[hide]

• 1 Host selection

○ 1.1 Bids

• 2 Format

• 3 Qualification

• 4 Preparations

○ 4.1 Pakistan loses co-

host status
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○ 4.2 Allocation of

matches

○ 4.3 Media and

promotion

• 5 Opening ceremony

• 6 Prize money

• 7 Venues

• 8 Umpires

• 9 Squads

• 10 Matches

○ 10.1 Warm-up matches

○ 10.2 Group stage

 10.2.1 Gro

up A

 10.2.2 Gro

up B

○ 10.3 Knockout stage

 10.3.1 Qua

rter-finals

 10.3.2 Sem

i-finals

 10.3.3 Fina

• 11 Statistics

• 12 Incidents

• 13 See also

• 14 References and notes

• 15 External links

Host selection
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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 executiveJames Sutherland.[10] 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.[10] 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.[11] 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.[12] 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,[13]that there "was no quid pro quo for their support",[14] and that playing the West

Indies had "nothing to do with the World Cup bid".[14]

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.[15]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
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As per ICC regulations, all 10 full members automatically qualify for the World Cup, including Zimbabwe who have given up their

Test playing status until the standard of their team improves.[16]

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.[17]

The following 14 teams qualified for the final tournament.

Group A Group B

Rank Team Rank Team

Full Members

1 2
Australia India

3 4
Pakistan South Africa

5 6
New Zealand England

7 8
Sri Lanka West Indies

9 10
Zimbabwe Bangladesh

Associate Members

11 12
Canada Ireland

13 14
Kenya Netherlands
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Preparations

Pakistan loses co-host status

In April 2009 the ICC announced that Pakistan had lost its right to co-host the 2011 World Cup due to ongoing concerns about the

"uncertain security situation" prevailing in the country, especially in the aftermath of the 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket

team inLahore.[18][19]

It is estimated that the PCB will lose $10.5 million due to the tournament being taken away from them.[20] 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.[21] However, the ICC

claims that PCB is still a co-host and they have only shifted the matches out of Pakistan.[22] 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.[23]

Allocation of matches

On 11 April 2005, Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Shaharyar Khan announced an agreement about the allocation of games.[24] The

original plan involved India hosting the final, while Pakistan and Sri Lanka would host the semi-finals.[25] and the opening ceremony

will take place in Bangladesh.[26]

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 have harmed any timing schedules as there are

regular flights from the city ofMumbai 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 eight at two grounds as well as the opening ceremony on 17 February 2011.[27]

On 1 June 2010, the first phase of tickets for the 2011 World Cup in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh were put on sale following a

meeting of the tournament's Central Organising Committee in Mumbai. The tickets were priced affordably, with the cheapest costing

20 US cents in Sri Lanka, the committee said.[28] 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.[29]

Media and promotion

See also: List of 2011 Cricket World Cup broadcasting rights

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De Ghuma Ke

The official song of the

2011 World Cup

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The World Cup has grown as a media event with each tournament. The International Cricket Council has sold the rights for

broadcasting of the 2011 Cricket World Cup for around US$ 2 Billion to ESPN Star Sports and Star Cricket.

Song and other promotions

The official event ambassador for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 is Sachin Tendulkar,[30] promoting various ICC initiatives for the

tournament.

The official song of the 2011 World Cup "De Ghuma Ke" was composed by the trio of Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy, and is sung in Hindi,

Bengali and Sinhala.[31] It incorporates an array of Indian rhythms, as well as elements of rock and hip-hop. The song was performed

at the opening ceremony of the tournament, which was held in Bangladesh on 17 February 2011.[32]

Mascot

Stumpy, a young elephant, is the official mascot for the 2011 Cricket World Cup.[33] He was unveiled at a function in Colombo, Sri

Lanka, on Friday, 2 April 2010.[34] 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.[35]

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 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 theInternational Cricket Council deciding to double the total allocation for the coveted tournament to US$ 10 million. The

winning team will also take home a replica of the ICC Cricket World Cup Trophy, that has been awarded since 1999. The decision

was taken at the ICC Board meeting which was held in Dubai on April 20, 2010.[36][37] The total prize money on offer for the

tournament for the teams placing from 1st to 8th is US$7.48 million. The remaining two semi-finalists will receive 0.75 million US$

each. The last four quarter-finalists will each receive 0.37 million US$.[38]

Venues
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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 at Kandy and Hambantota.[39]

Venue City Capacity

India

Eden Gardens Kolkata 64,500

MA Chidambaram Stadium Chennai 50,000

Sardar Patel Stadium Ahmedabad 50,000

Feroz Shah Kotla New Delhi 48,000

Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium Nagpur 45,000

M Chinnaswamy Stadium Bangalore 42,000

Punjab Cricket Association Stadium Mohali 35,000

Wankhede Stadium Mumbai 33,000

Sri Lanka

R Premadasa Stadium Colombo 35,000

Muttiah Muralitharan International Cricket Stadium Kandy 35,000

Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium Hambantota 35,000

Bangladesh

Shere Bangla National Stadium Dhaka 25,000

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Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium Chittagong 20,000

Kolkata

New Delhi

Ahmedabad
Colombo
ChittagongChennai
Hambantota
Dhaka Mohali
Venues in Bangladesh
Kandy
Venues in Sri Lanka
Nagpur

Bangalore

Mumbai
Venues in India

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 South Africa England
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 Simon Taufel  Marais Erasmus  Ian Gould

 Steve Davis
 Rod Tucker
 Daryl Harper
 Bruce Oxenford
New Zealand
 Billy Bowden
 Tony Hill
Pakistan
 Richard Kettleborough
 Aleem Dar
 Nigel Llong
Sri Lanka
 Asad Rauf
India
 Asoka de Silva
 Shavir Tarapore
 Kumar Dharmasena
West Indies
 Amiesh Saheba
 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 the 14 teams announced their final squad before 19 January 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 were played before the World Cup started.[40][41]

Warm-up matches [show]

Group stage

The top four teams from the two groups will qualify for the quarter finals.

Group A

Main article: 2011 Cricket World Cup Group A

Team Pld W L T NR NRR Pts

6 5 1 0 0 +0.758 10
Pakistan
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6 4 1 0 1 +2.582 9
Sri Lanka

6 4 1 0 1 +1.123 9
Australia

6 4 2 0 0 +1.135 8
New Zealand

6 2 4 0 0 +0.030 4
Zimbabwe

6 1 5 0 0 −1.987 2
Canada

6 0 6 0 0 −3.042 0
Kenya

Group A Matches [show]

Group B

Main article: 2011 Cricket World Cup Group B

Team Pld W L T NR NRR Pts

6 5 1 0 0 +2.026 10
South Africa

6 4 1 1 0 +0.900 9
India

6 3 2 1 0 +0.072 7
England

6 3 3 0 0 +1.066 6
West Indies

6 3 3 0 0 –1.361 6
Bangladesh
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6 2 4 0 0 –0.696 4
Ireland

6 0 6 0 0 –2.045 0
Netherlands

Group B Matches [show]

Knockout stage

Main article: 2011 Cricket World Cup knockout stage

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final

23 March – Dhaka, Bangladesh

Pakistan

30 March – Mohali, India

West Indies

24 March – Ahmedabad, India

Australia

2 April – Mumbai, India

India
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25 March – Dhaka, Bangladesh

New Zealand

29 March – Colombo, Sri Lanka

South Africa

26 March – Colombo, Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

England

Quarter-finals
23 March 2011 (D/N) v Quarter-Final 1
Scorecard Shere Bangla National
Pakistan West Indies Stadium, Mirpur, Dhaka

24 March 2011 (D/N) v Quarter-Final 2

Scorecard Australia Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad
India

25 March 2011 (D/N) v Quarter-Final 3

Scorecard New Zealand Shere Bangla National
South Africa Stadium, Mirpur, Dhaka

26 March 2011 (D/N) v Quarter-Final 4

Scorecard Sri Lanka R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
England
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Semi-finals
29 March 2011 (D/N) Winner of Quarter-Final 3 v Winner of Quarter-Final 4 Semi-Final 1
Scorecard R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

30 March 2011 (D/N) Winner of Quarter-Final 1 v Winner of Quarter-Final 2 Semi-Final 2

Scorecard Punjab Cricket Association
Stadium, Mohali,Punjab

Final

Main article: 2011 Cricket World Cup Final

2 April 2011 (D/N) Winner of Semi-final 1 v Winner of Semi-final 2 Final
Scorecard Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

The location of a particular knockout stage could be interchanged to facilitate home matches for the hosts (India, Sri Lanka and

Bangaladesh ). But if two host countries draw each other, the team placed higher in the pre-tournament seeding will get preference.

It means India, seeded higher than both Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, will play their knock-out stage match(es) on home soil.[42]

Statistics

Main article: 2011 Cricket World Cup statistics

The top 5 (including ties) batters and wicket takers are shown below:

Leading run scorers Leading wicket takers Maximum man

Runs Player Team Mat Wickets Player Team Mat Player Team

363 Kumar Sangakkara 6 17 Shahid Afridi 6

Sri Lanka Yuvraj
Pakistan
Singh In
336 Jonathan Trott 6 15 Zaheer Khan 6
England
India AB de
Villiers S
329 Andrew Strauss 6 Africa
England 14 Robin Peterson 6
South Africa
Kemar
327 Virender Sehwag 5 Roach W
India 14 Tim Southee 6
New Zealand Indies

326 Sachin Tendulkar 6 13 Kemar Roach 5 Umar

India West Indies P
Akmal
an

Shahid
Afridi P
an
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Incidents

 On 8 March, fans who lined up outside the Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground in Nagpur to

buy tickets of the match between India andSouth Africa were caned by the local police.[43]

 The West Indies' team bus had rocks thrown at it by Bangladeshi fans on its way back to the

team hotel after their win over Bangladesh on March 4. It was later claimed that the rock-

throwers had confused the Windies' bus with the Bangladesh bus.[44]

See also

Cricket portal

 List of Cricket World Cup records

References and notes

1. ^ "2011 World Cup Schedule". from CricketWorld4u. Retrieved 2009-10-07.

2. ^ "Final World Cup positions secured". from BBC. 2009-04-17. Retrieved 2009-04-17.

3. ^ "Opening ceremony of 2011 World Cup on Feb 17 in Bangladesh: ICC". Daily News and Analysis.

PTI. 2 September 2009. Retrieved 31 December 2010.

4. ^ "No World Cup matches in Pakistan". BBC. 2009-04-18. Retrieved 2009-04-17.

5. ^ "World Cup shifts base from Lahore to Mumbai". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2009-04-17.

6. ^ "Pakistan counts cost of Cup shift". BBC. 2009-04-18. Retrieved 2009-04-18.

7. ^ "Pakistan nears solution to World Cup dispute". AFP. Retrieved 2009-07-31.

8. ^ , http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/8349468-biggest-upset-in-world-cup-cricket-ireland-

wins-glory-over-england

9. ^ http://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/37466/Record-breaking-O-Brien-sees-Ireland-stun-England

10. ^ a b
"Asia to host 2011 World Cup". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2006-04-30.

11. ^ "West Indies deal secured 2011 World Cup". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2006-05-02.

12. ^ "Asia promises spectacular World Cup". Dawn. Retrieved 2005-05-02.

13. ^ "Promise of profit won Asia the bid – Bindra". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2006-05-07.

14. ^ a b
"Bindra: No deal with West Indies board". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2006-05-05.

15. ^ New format for World Cup Sky Sports. Retrieved on 10 December 2009.

16. ^ "No Test Cricket For Zimbabwe – ICC". Radiovop.

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17. ^ 2009 ICC World Cup qualifiers website Retrieved on 10 March 2010

18. ^ "World Cup matches moved out of Pakistan". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2009-04-17.

19. ^ Pakistan loses 2011 World Cup Sky Sports. Retrieved on 2 December 2009

20. ^ "Cricket-Pakistan counts financial losses of World Cup shift". Reuters. 18 April 2009. Retrieved
2009-04-18.

21. ^ "PCB issues legal notice to ICC | Pakistan Cricket News | Cricinfo.com". Content.cricinfo.com.
Retrieved 2011-02-17.

22. ^ "ICC clears air over PCB's claims". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2009-05-15.

23. ^ "Pakistan discusses two World Cup options". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2009-05-17.

24. ^ "Asian bloc faces stiff competition over 2011 bid". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2006-04-22.

25. ^ "India to host 2011 World Cup final". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2006-07-08.

26. ^ "India lands 2011 World Cup final". BBC. 2006-07-08. Retrieved 2006-07-09.

27. ^ "India to host 2011 World Cup final". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2009-04-28.

28. ^ "2011 World Cup tickets go on sale".

29. ^ Gollapudi, Nagraj (2011-01-29). "Bangalore to host India-England game extension". Cricinfo.
Retrieved 2011-01-29.

30. ^ "Sachin Tendulkar to be event ambassador for ICC world cup 2011". ICC. Retrieved 2011-01-19.

31. ^ Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy score a hit with World Cup songHindustan Times. Retrieved on 9 January
2011.

32. ^ "De ghuma ke... Countdown to World Cup begins today".Indian Express. Retrieved on 9 January
2011.

33. ^ 2011 World Cup mascot to be called 'Stumpy' NDTV Cricket. Retrieved on 2 Aug, 2010.

34. ^ First Look: Mascot for 2011 Cricket World Cup by Rediff Sport. Retrieved on 2 April 2010.

35. ^ ICC to name ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 mascot on 2 August. ICC. Retrieved on 2 Aug, 2010.

36. ^ Prize Money for ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 confirmed by the ICC. Retrieved on 25 April 2010.

37. ^ Prize money of CWC 2011 Official site.

38. ^ "Cricket World Cup 2011 : Sunday Observer – Lake House – Sri Lanka". Sundayobserver.lk.
Retrieved 2011-02-17.

39. ^ Venues of 2011 World Cup by ICC Retrieved on 10 March 2010.

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40. ^ Warm up matches schedule. Cricinfo. Retrieved on 1 February, 2011.

41. ^ World Cup Warm up matches schedule. Yahoo! Cricket. Retrieved on 1 February, 2011.

42. ^ http://www.krishcricket.com/masala/cricmasala.aspx?id=3031

43. ^ Cricket fans get cane beating in Nagpur

44. ^ West Indies team bus stoned in Dhaka

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