2011 ICC Cricket World Cup

The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup starts with its first match on 19th February 2011. There will be 14 national teams taking part in this exciting cricketing tournament.

This will be the tenth Cricket World Cup and is being hosted by three South Asian Test cricket playing countries: India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. For Bangladesh this will be the first time ever the nation will be co-hosting a Cricket World Cup.

The opening ceremony was held on 17th February 2011, two days before the start of the tournament. It will be held in Bangladesh. The venue for the ceremony Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh, hosted music performances by Sonu Niigaam, Shankar Ehsaan and Loy, and rock star Bryan Adams as part of the build up to the tournament.

The are 14 teams taking part, which are as follows:

GROUP A

Australia – Ricky Ponting (captain), Michael Clarke (vice-captain), Doug Bollinger, Brad Haddin (wk), Brett Lee, Tim Paine (wk), David Hussey, Mike Hussey, John Hastings, Nathan Hauritz, Mitchell Johnson, Steve Smith, Shaun Tait, Shane Watson and Cameron White.

Pakistan – Shahid Afridi, Mohammad Hafeez, Ahmed Shehzad, Kamran Akmal, Younis Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq, Asad Shafiq, Abdur Rehman, Saeed Ajmal, Umar Akmal, Abdul Razzaq, Shoaib Akhtar, Umar Gul, Wahab Riaz, and Sohail Tanvir.

New Zealand – Daniel Vettori (captain), Hamish Bennett, James Franklin, Martin Guptill, Jamie How, Brendon McCullum, Nathan McCullum, Kyle Mills, Jacob Oram, Jesse Ryder, Tim Southee, Scott Styris, Ross Taylor, Kane Williamson and Luke Woodcock.

Sri Lanka – Kumar Sangakkara (captain), Mahela Jayawardene (vice-captain), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Upul Tharanga, Thilan Samaraweera, Chamara Silva, Chamara Kapugedera, Angelo Mathews, Thisara Perera, Nuwan Kulasekara, Lasith Malinga, Dilhara Fernando, Muttiah Muralitharan, Ajantha Mendis and Rangana Herath.

Zimbabwe – Elton Chigumbura (captain), Charles Coventry, Graeme Cremer, Regis Chakabva, Sean Ervine, Craig Ervine, Gregory Lamb, Shingirai Masakadza, Edward Rainsford, Christopher Mpofu, Raymond Price, Tatenda Taibu, Brendan Taylor, Prosper Utseya and Sean Williams.

Canada – Ashish Bagai (captain and wicketkeeper), Rizwan Cheema (vice-captain), Nitish Kumar, Jimmy Hansra, Tyson Gordon, John Davison, Harvir Baidwan, Hiral Patel, Henry Osinde, Parth Desai, Ruvindu Gunasekera, Balaji Rao, Karl Whatham, Khurram Chohan, Zubin Surkari and Hamza Tariq (stand-by).

Kenya – Jimmy Kamande (captain), Seren Waters, Alex Obanda, Elijah Otieno, Rakep Patel, David Obuya, Collins Obuya, Steve Tikolo, Tamnay Mishra, Maurice Ouma, Nehemiah Odhiambo, Thomas Odoyo, Shem Ngoche, James Ngoche and Peter Ongondo.

GROUP B

India – Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain), Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli, Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Ravichandran Ashwin, Piyush Chawla, Zaheer Khan, Munaf Patel, Ashish Nehra and Praveen Kumar.

South Africa – Graeme Smith (captain), Hashim Amla, Jacques Kallis, AB de Villiers (wk), JP Duminy, Faf du Plessis, Morne van Wyk (wk), Colin Ingram, Johan Botha, Imran Tahir, Robin Peterson, Morne Morkel, Wayne Parnell, Dale Steyn and Lonwabo Tsotsobe.

England – Graeme Smith (captain), Hashim Amla, Jacques Kallis, AB de Villiers (wk), JP Duminy, Faf du Plessis, Morne van Wyk (wk), Colin Ingram, Johan Botha, Imran Tahir, Robin Peterson, Morne Morkel, Wayne Parnell, Dale Steyn and Lonwabo Tsotsobe.

West Indies – Darren Sammy (captain), Darren Bravo, Carlton Baugh (wicketkeeper), Sulieman Benn, Nikita Miller, Adrian Barath, Dwayne Bravo, Kemar Roach, Andre Russell, Kieron Pollard, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Devon Smith, Ravi Rampaul and Chris Gayle.

Bangladesh – Shakib Al Hasan (captain), Tamim Iqbal (vice-captain), Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Md Ashraful, Imrul Kayes, Shahriar Nafees, Juaneed Siddiqui, Roquibul Hasan, Mahmudullah Riyad, Naeem Islam, Abdur Razzak, Suhrawardi Shuvo, Shafiul Islam, Nazmul Hossain and Rubel Hossain.

Ireland – William Porterfield (captain), Andre Botha, Alex Cusack, Niall O’Brien (wk), Kevin O’Brien, George Dockrell, Trent Johnston, Nigel Jones, John Mooney, Boyd Rankin, Paul Stirling, Albert van der Merwe, Gary Wilson (wk), Andrew White, and Ed Joyce.

Netherlands – Peter Borren, Wesley Barresi, Adeel Raja, Mudassar Bukhari, Atse Buurman, Tom Cooper, Tom De Crooth, Alexie Kervezee, Bradley Kruger, Bernard Loots, Pieter Seelar, Eric Szwarczynski, Ryan Ten Doeschate, Berend Westdijk and Bas Zuiderent.

There are 42 matches to be played in the Group Stages. Then, the top four winners from each group will go forward to the Knockout Stage.The Semi Finals will be played on the 29th and 30th March 2011 and the Final on Saturday April 2nd 2011.

Here is a complete schedule of the matches and results for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011.

GROUP STAGE MATCHES
Day	Time	Venue	Stage	Team 1	Team 2	Result
Saturday, 19 February
	14:30	Mirpur, Bangladesh	Group B	India	Bangladesh	India (370-4) beat Bangladesh (283-9) by 87 runs
Sunday, 20 February	09:30	Chennai, India	Group A	Kenya	New Zealand	New Zealand (72-0) beat Kenya (69-10) by 10 wickets
	14:30	Hambantota, Sri Lanka		Sri Lanka	Canada	Sri Lanka (332-7) beat Canada (122 all out) by 210 runs
Monday, 21 February	14:30	Ahmedabad, India	Group A	Australia	Zimbabwe	Australia (262-6) beat Zimbabe (171-10) by 91 runs
Tuesday, 22 February	14:30	Nagpur, India	Group B	England	Netherlands	England (296-4) beat Netherlands (292-6) by 6 wickets
Wednesday, 23 February	14:30	Hambantota, Sri Lanka	Group A	Kenya	Pakistan	Pakistan 317-7 beat Kenya 112-10 by 205 runs
Thursday, 24 February	14:30	Delhi, India	Group B	South Africa	West Indies	South Africa (223-3) won West Indies (222-10) by 7 wickets
Friday, 25 February	14:30	Nagpur, India	Group A	Australia	New Zealand	Match 8
	14:30	Mirpur, Bangladesh	Group B	Bangladesh	Ireland	Bangladesh (205-10) beat Ireland (178-10) by 27 runs
Saturday, 26 February	14:30	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Group A	Sri Lanka	Pakistan	Pakistan (277-7) beat Sri Lanka (266-9) by 11 runs
Sunday, 27 February	14:30	Bangalore, India	Group B	India	England	India (338-8) tied with England (338-8)
Monday, 28 February	09:30	Nagpur, India	Group A	Canada	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe (298-9) beat Canada (123-9) by 175 runs
	14:30	Delhi, India		Netherlands	West Indies	West Indies (330-8) beat Netherlands (115-10) by 215 runs
Tuesday, 1 March	14:30	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Group B	Sri Lanka	Kenya	Sri Lanka (146-1) beat Kenya (142-10) 9 wickets
Wednesday, 2 March	14:30	Bangalore, India	Group B	England	Ireland	Ireland (329-7) beat England (327-8) by 3 wickets
Thursday, 3 March	09:30	Mohali, India	Group B	Netherlands	South Africa	South Africa (351-5) beat Netherlands (120-10) by 231 runs
	14:30	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Group A	Canada	Pakistan	Pakistan (184-10) beat Canada (138-10) by 46 runs
Friday, 4 March	09:30	Ahmedabad, India	Group A	New Zealand	Zimbabwe	New Zealand (166-0) beat Zimbabwe (162-10) by 10 wickets
	14:30	Mirpur, Bangladesh	Group B	Bangladesh	West Indies	West Indies (59-1) beat Bangladesh (58-10) by 9 wickets
Saturday, 5 March	14:30	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Group A	Sri Lanka	Australia	Sri Lanka (146-3) and Australia did not bat due to bad rain.
Sunday, 6 March	09:30	Chennai, India	Group B	England	South Africa	England (171-10) beat South Africa (165-10) by 6 runs
	14:30	Bangalore, India	Group B	India	Ireland	India (210/5) won Ireland (207/10) by 5 wickets
Monday, 7 March	14:30	Delhi, India	Group A	Canada	Kenya	Canada (199/5) won Kenya (198/10) by 5 wickets
Tuesday, 8 March	14:30	Kandy, Sri Lanka	Group A	New Zealand	Pakistan	New Zealand (302-7) beat Pakistan: (192-10) by 110 runs
Wednesday, 9 March	14:30	Delhi, India	Group B	India	Netherlands	India (191-5) beat Netherlands (189-10) by 5 wickets
Thursday, 10 March	14:30	Kandy, Sri Lanka	Group A	Sri Lanka	Zimbabwe	Sri Lanka (327-6) beat Zimbabwe (188-10) by 139 runs
Friday, 11 March	09:30	Mohali, India	Group B	Ireland	West Indies	West Indies (275) beat Ireland (231-10) by 44 runs
	14:30	Chittagong, Bangladesh	Group B	Bangladesh	England	Bangladesh (227-8) beat England (225-10) by 2 wickets
Saturday, 12 March	14:30	Nagpur, India	Group B	India	South Africa	South Africa (300-7) beat India (296-10) by 3 wickets
Sunday, 13 March	09:30	Mumbai, India	Group A	Canada	New Zealand	New Zealand (358-6) beat Canada (261-9) by 97 runs
	14:30	Bangalore, India		Australia	Kenya	Australia (324-6) beat Kenya (264-6) by 60 runs
Monday, 14 March	09:30	Chittagong, Bangladesh	Group B	Bangladesh	Netherlands	Bangladesh (166-4) beat Netherlands (160-10) by 6 wickets
	14:30	Kandy, Sri Lanka	Group A	Pakistan	Zimbabwe	Pakistan (164-3) beat Zimbabwe (151-7) by 7 wickets (D/L)
Tuesday, 15 March	14:30	Kolkata, India	Group B	Ireland	South Africa	South Africa (272-7) beat Ireland (141-10) by 131 runs
Wednesday, 16 March	14:30	Bangalore, India	Group A	Australia	Canada	Australia (212-3) beat Canada (211-10) by 7 wickets
Thursday, 17 March	14:30	Chennai, India	Group B	England	West Indies	England (243-10) beat West Indies (225-10) by 18 runs
Friday, 18 March	09:30	Kolkata, India	Group B	Ireland	Netherlands	Ireland (307-4) beat Netherlands (306-10) by 6 wickets
	14:30	Mumbai, India	Group A	New Zealand	Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka (265-9) beat New Zealand (153-10) by 112 runs
Saturday, 19 March	09:30	Mirpur, Bangladesh	Group B	Bangladesh	South Africa	South Africa (284-8) beat Bangladesh (78-10) by 206 runs
	14:30	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Group A	Australia	Pakistan	Pakistan (178-6) beat Australia (176-10) by 4 wickets
Sunday, 20 March	09:30	Kolkata, India	Group A	Kenya	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe (308-6) beat Kenya (147-10) by 161 runs
	14:30	Chennai, India	Group B	India	West Indies	India (268-10) beat West Indies (188-10) by 80 runs
KNOCKOUT STAGE MATCHES
Day	Time	Venue	Stage	Team 1	Team 2	Result
Wednesday 23 March	14:30	Mirpur, Bangladesh	Quarter-Finals	Pakistan	West Indies	Pakistan (113-0) beat West Indies (112-10) by 10 wickets
Thursday, 24 March	14:30	Ahmedabad, India	Quarter-Finals	India	Australia	India (261-5) beat Australia (260-6) by 5 wickets
Friday, 25 March	14:30	Mirpur, Bangladesh	Quarter-Finals	New Zealand	South Africa	New Zealand (221-8) beat South Africa (172-10) by 49 runs
Saturday, 26 March	14:30	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Quarter-Finals	Sri Lanka	England	Sri Lanka (231-0) beat England (229-6) by 10 wickets
Tuesday, 29 March	14:30	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Semi-Finals	New Zealand	Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka (220-5) beat New Zealand (217-10) by 5 wickets
Wednesday, 30 March	14:30	Mohali, India	Semi-Finals	India	Pakistan	India beat Pakistan by 29 runs
Final
Saturday, 2 April	14:30	Mumbai, India	Final	Sri Lanka	India	India beat Sri Lanka by 6 wickets to win the 2011 ICC World Cup

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