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ICC Worldcup 2011

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[1] to compete. The World Cup will take place during February and March 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.

Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai will host the final of the 2011 World Cup and two additional matches, the tournament's local organising committee announced after a meeting in that city on Wednesday. Mohali will host one semi-final and Ahmedabad a quarter-final, and each will also get two other games.

The rest of the 29 matches allotted to India have been divided equally between Eden Gardens, Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore and Nagpur; their four games each will also include one India game.

The remaining matches will be divided between Bangladesh (eight games) and Sri Lanka (12) and the full schedule of the 14-nation tournament is to be announced in Mumbai on November 9.

Sri Lanka will stage the other semi-final and one quarter-final, while Bangladesh will host the opening ceremony on February 18 and two quarter-finals.

Group A: Australia, Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Canada and Kenya Group B: India, South Africa, England, West Indies, Bangladesh, Ireland and Netherlands.

Schedule:

* Sat Feb 19 1st match - India v Bangladesh
* Sun Feb 20 3rd match - Sri Lanka v Canada
* Sun Feb 20 2nd match - Kenya v New Zealand
* Mon Feb 21 4th match - Australia v Zimbabwe
* Tue Feb 22 5th match - England v Netherlands
* Wed Feb 23 6th match - Kenya v Pakistan
* Thu Feb 24 7th match - South Africa v West Indies
* Fri Feb 25 9th match - Bangladesh v Ireland
* Fri Feb 25 8th match - Australia v New Zealand
* Sat Feb 26 10th match - Pakistan v Sri Lanka
* Sun Feb 27 11th match - India v England
* Mon Feb 28 12th match - Netherlands v West Indies
* Mon Feb 28 13th match - Canada v Zimbabwe
* Tue Mar 1 14th match - Kenya v Sri Lanka
* Wed Mar 2 15th match - England v Ireland
* Thu Mar 3 17th match - Canada v Pakistan
* Thu Mar 3 16th match - Netherlands v South Africa
* Fri Mar 4 19th match - Bangladesh v West Indies
* Fri Mar 4 18th match - New Zealand v Zimbabwe
* Sat Mar 5 20th match - Australia v Sri Lanka
* Sun Mar 6 21st match - India v Ireland
* Sun Mar 6 22nd match - England v South Africa
* Mon Mar 7 23rd match - Canada v Kenya
* Tue Mar 8 24th match - New Zealand v Pakistan

* Wed Mar 9 25th match - India v Netherlands

* Thu Mar 10 26th match - Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe
* Fri Mar 11 28th match - Bangladesh v England
* Fri Mar 11 27th match - Ireland v West Indies
* Sat Mar 12 29th match - India v South Africa
* Sun Mar 13 30th match - Canada v New Zealand
* Sun Mar 13 31st match - Australia v Kenya
* Mon Mar 14 33rd match - Bangladesh v Netherlands
* Mon Mar 14 32nd match - Pakistan v Zimbabwe
* Tue Mar 15 34th match - Ireland v South Africa
* Wed Mar 16 35th match - Australia v Canada
* Thu Mar 17 36th match - England v West Indies
* Fri Mar 18 37th match - New Zealand v Sri Lanka
* Fri Mar 18 38th match - Ireland v Netherlands
* Sat Mar 19 40th match - Bangladesh v South Africa
* Sat Mar 19 39th match - Australia v Pakistan
* Sun Mar 20 41st match - Kenya v Zimbabwe
* Sun Mar 20 42nd match - India v West Indies
* Wed Mar 23 1st Quarter Final at Mirpur
* Thu Mar 24 2nd Quarter Final at Colombo
* Fri Mar 25 3rd Quarter Final at Mirpur
* Sat Mar 26 4th Quarter Final at Ahmedabad
* Tue Mar 29 1st Semi Final at Colombo
* Wed Mar 30 2nd Semi Final at Chandigarh
* Sat Apr 2 Final at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai