2011 Cricket World Cup

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The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup will be thetenth 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 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 to be co-hosted by Pakistan, but in the wake of the 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team in Lahore on the Sri Lanka national cricket team in Lahore 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.but have now been shifted to Mumbai.including one semi-final Eight of Pakistan's matches have been awarded to India, four to Sri Lanka and two to Bangladesh.