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ICC Cricket World Cup 2011

Official logo of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011
Dates	19 February – 2 April
Administrator(s)	International Cricket Council
Cricket format	One-Day International
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin and Knockout
Host(s)	India Sri Lanka Bangladesh
Champions	Pakistan (2nd title)
Participants	14 (from 104 entrants)
Matches	49
Player of the series	Shahid Afridi
Most runs	Misbah ul Haq (500)
Most wickets	Shahid Afridi (21) Zaheer Khan (21)
Official website	ICC Cricket World Cup 2011
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The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup was the tenth Cricket World Cup. It was played in India, Sri Lanka, and (for the first time) Bangladesh. Pakistan was also scheduled to be a co-host, but after the 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team in Lahore, the International Cricket Council (ICC) cancelled that, and the headquarters of the organising committee, originally in Lahore, was transferred to Mumbai. Pakistan was to have held 14 matches, including one semi-final. Eight of the games (including the semi-final) were awarded to India, four to Sri Lanka, and two to Bangladesh.

All the matches were One Day Internationals, and all were played over 50 overs. Fourteen national cricket teams took part, including ten full members and four associate members of the ICC. The opening ceremony was held on 17 February 2011 at Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka, and the tournament was played between 19 February and 2 April. The first match was played between India and Bangladesh at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur, Dhaka. The final was between India and Sri Lanka at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.

India won the tournament, defeating Sri Lanka by 6 wickets in the final in Mumbai, thus becoming the first country to win the Cricket World Cup final on home soil. India's Yuvraj Singh was declared the man of the tournament. This was the first time in World Cup history that two Asian teams had appeared in the final. It was also the first time since the 1992 World Cup that the final match did not feature Australia.

Host selection

The ICC announced on 30 April 2006 which countries would host the 2011 World Cup. Australia and New Zealand had also bid for the tournament; if successful, they would have shared the hosting equally, leaving the location of the final still to be decided. The Trans–Tasman bid, Beyond Boundaries, was the only one delivered to the ICC headquarters in Dubai before the 1 March deadline, but the Asian bidders were granted an extension by the ICC. The New Zealand government had given assurance that Zimbabwe would be allowed to compete in the tournament, following political discussions in the country over whether their cricket team should be allowed to tour Zimbabwe in 2005.

The extra time needed for the Asian bid had weakened its prospects, but when the time came to vote, Asia won the hosting rights by ten votes to three. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has revealed that the vote of the West Indies Cricket Board was decisive, as the Asian bid had the support of South Africa and Zimbabwe as well as the four bidding countries. The Pakistani newspaper Dawn reported that the Asian countries had promised to hold fund-raising events for West Indian cricket during the 2007 World Cup, which may have influenced the vote. However, I. S. Bindra, chairman of the Monitoring Committee of the Asian bid, said that their promise of extra profits of around US$400 million had been decisive, that there "was no quid pro quo for their support", and that playing the West Indies had "nothing to do with the World Cup bid".

The ICC prefers to rotate World Cup venues between major cricket playing nations. They have been hosted by England (in 1975, 1979, and 1983), India and Pakistan (1987), Australia and New Zealand (1992), India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka (1996), England and the Netherlands (1999), South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Kenya (2003), and the West Indies (2007). Australia/New Zealand were awarded the 2015 World Cup.

Format

Late in 2007, the four host nations agreed on a revised format for the 2011 World Cup, identical to that of the 1996 World Cup, except that there would be 14 teams instead of 12. The first round of the tournament would consist of two groups of seven teams. Each team in a group would play all the others once, and the top four from each group would qualify for the quarter-finals. This ensured that every team would play at least six matches.

Qualification

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.

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. All 4 associates maintaining their ODI status.

List of qualified teams

The following 14 teams qualified for the final tournament.

Group A		Group B
Rank	Team	Rank	Team
Full Members
1	Australia	2	India
3	Pakistan	4	South Africa
5	New Zealand	6	England
7	Sri Lanka	8	West Indies
9	Zimbabwe	10	Bangladesh
Associate Members
11	Canada	12	Ireland
13	Kenya	14	Netherlands

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 because of concerns about the "uncertain security situation" in the country, especially in the aftermath of the 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team in Lahore. The PCB estimated that this would lose them $10.5 million. This figure took account only of the fees of $750,000 per match guaranteed by the ICC. The overall loss to the PCB and the Pakistani economy were 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. The ICC, however, claimed that the PCB was still a co-host, and that they had only relocated the matches out of Pakistan. Pakistan proposed that South Asia host the 2015 World Cup and that Australia and New Zealand host the 2011 event, but this option did not find favour with their co-hosts and was not implemented.

Allocation of matches

On 11 April 2005 PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan announced an agreement on the allocation of games, under which India would host the final, Pakistan and Sri Lanka the semi-finals, and Bangladesh the opening ceremony. After being stripped of its status as a co-host, Pakistan proposed to host its allocated games in the United Arab Emirates as a neutral venue. They had played matches in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Sharjah in the preceding months. On 28 April 2009, however, the ICC announced that matches originally intended to be played in Pakistan would be reallocated. As a result, India hosted 29 matches across eight venues, including the final and one semi-final; Sri Lanka hosted 12 matches at three venues, including one semi-final; and Bangladesh hosted 8 matches at two grounds, as well as the opening ceremony on 17 February 2011.

On 1 June 2010 the first tranche of tickets were put on sale after a meeting of the tournament's Central Organising Committee in Mumbai. The cheapest tickets cost 20 US cents in Sri Lanka. 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. The match was moved to Bangalore.

Media and promotion

The World Cup has grown as a media event with each tournament. The ICC sold the broadcasting rights for the 2011 event to ESPN Star Sports and Star Cricket for around US$2 billion. At least 2 billion people from more than 180 countries around the world were expected to watch. For the first time the ICC Cricket World Cup was broadcast in high-definition format, and it was to be covered by at least 27 cameras using recent technology. It was also planned to be shown across platforms such as online and mobile 3G. It was the first time that an ICC event had the Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS).

The official event ambassador was Sachin Tendulkar.

Song

The official song of the 2011 Cricket World Cup has three versions, in Bengali, Hindi, and Sinhala, corresponding to the three host countries. "De Ghuma Ke" (Swing It Hard) is the Hindi version, composed by the trio of Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy. It employs an array of Indian rhythms combined with elements of rock and hip hop. The Sinhala version, "Sinha Udaane", was adapted by Sri Lankan R&B and hip hop artist Ranidu Lankage and composed by lyricist Shehan Galahitiyawa. Both songs were performed at the opening ceremony. "Sinha Udaane" was performed by Lankage.

Mascot

Stumpy, a young elephant, was the official mascot for the 2011 Cricket World Cup. He was unveiled at a function in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on 2 April 2010, and his name was revealed on 2 August 2010 after an online competition conducted by the ICC in the last week of July.

Opening ceremony

The opening ceremony was held in the Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 17 February 2011, two days before the first match.

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 the International Cricket Council deciding to double the total allocation for the coveted tournament to US$8.01 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.

• US$250 thousand – To each team exiting after the quarter-finals (4 teams)
• US$500 thousand – Fourth placed team
• US$500 thousand – Third placed team
• US$1.5 million – Runner up
• US$3.25 million – Winner

Venues

All the Indian stadiums for the tournament had been finalised by mid-October 2009, and those of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in late October 2009. The ICC announced all the venues in Mumbai on 2 November 2009. Two new stadiums were constructed in Kandy and Hambantota, Sri Lanka, for the event.

India
Kolkata	Chennai	New Delhi	Nagpur	Ahmedabad
Eden Gardens	M. A. Chidambaram Stadium	Feroz Shah Kotla Ground	Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium	Sardar Patel Stadium
Capacity: 66,349	Capacity: 37,220	Capacity: 40,715	Capacity: 45,000	Capacity: 54,000
	Mumbai	Mohali	Bangalore
	Wankhede Stadium	Punjab Cricket Association Stadium	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium
	Capacity: 32,000	Capacity: 42,000	Capacity: 36,430
Sri Lanka			Bangladesh
Colombo	Pallekele	Hambantota	Chittagong	Dhaka
R. Premadasa Stadium	Pallekele International Cricket Stadium	Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium	Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium	Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium
Capacity: 35,000	Capacity: 35,000	Capacity: 35,000	Capacity: 20,000	Capacity: 26,000
		File:Hambantota International Cricket Stadium.jpg	File:Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium at night.png

KolkataNew DelhiAhmedabadChennaiMohaliNagpurBangaloreMumbaiclass=notpageimage| Venues in India

ColomboHambantotaPallekeleclass=notpageimage| Venues in Sri Lanka

ChittagongDhakaclass=notpageimage| Venues in Bangladesh

Umpires

The Umpire selection panel selected 18 umpires excluding a reserve umpire, Enamul Haque (Bangladesh) 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.

Squads

Each country chose a 30-member preliminary squad, which would then be reduced to 15. All the 14 teams announced their final squads before 19 January 2011.

Matches

Warm-up matches

The following 14 warm-up matches were played before the World Cup started. For statistical purposes, these matches are not considered to be One Day Internationals.

West Indies  253/8 (50 overs)

v

Kenya 192 (45.3 overs)

West Indies won by 61 runs R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Sri Lanka  351/5 (50 overs)

v

Netherlands 195 (47.3 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 156 runs Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo

Canada  112 (37.3 overs)

v

Bangladesh 113/1 (19.2 overs)

Bangladesh won by 9 wickets Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong

New Zealand  311/6 (50 overs)

v

Ireland 279 (48.2 overs)

New Zealand won by 32 runs Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Jamtha, Nagpur

Zimbabwe  152 (41.5 overs)

v

South Africa 153/2 (23.3 overs)

South Africa won by 8 wickets MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai

India  214 (44.3 overs)

v

Australia 176 (37.5 overs)

India won by 38 runs M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

Zimbabwe  244/8 (50 overs)

v

Ireland 245/6 (49.3 overs)

Ireland won by 4 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Jamtha, Nagpur

Kenya  263/5 (50 overs)

v

Netherlands 264/8 (49.1 overs)

Netherlands won by 2 wickets Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo

Pakistan  285/9 (50 overs)

v

Bangladesh 196 (41.4 overs)

Pakistan won by 89 runs Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur, Dhaka

Australia  217 (47.1 overs)

v

South Africa 218/1 (44.2 overs)

South Africa won by 9 wickets M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

West Indies  281 (50 overs)

v

Sri Lanka 282/6 (47.3 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 4 wickets R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

England  243 (49.4 overs)

v

Canada 227 (46.1 overs)

England won by 16 runs Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium, Fatullah

India  360/5 (50 overs)

v

New Zealand 243 (43.1 overs)

India won by 117 runs MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai

England  273 (49.4 overs)

v

Pakistan 206 (46.1 overs)

England won by 67 runs Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium, Fatullah

Group stage

The top four teams from the two groups qualified for the quarter-finals.

Group A

Template:2011 Cricket World Cup Group A The top four teams from each group qualified for the quarter-finals (indicated in green).

Kenya  69 (23.5 overs)

v

New Zealand 72/0 (8 overs)

Sri Lanka  332/7 (50 overs)

v

Canada 122 (36.5 overs)

Australia  262/6 (50 overs)

v

Zimbabwe 171 (46.2 overs)

Pakistan  317/7 (50 overs)

v

Kenya 112 (33.1 overs)

New Zealand  206 (45.1 overs)

v

Australia 207/3 (34 overs)

Pakistan  277/7 (50 overs)

v

Sri Lanka 266/9 (50 overs)

Zimbabwe  298/9 (50 overs)

v

Canada 123 (42.1 overs)

Kenya  142 (43.4 overs)

v

Sri Lanka 146/1 (18.4 overs)

Pakistan  184 (43 overs)

v

Canada 138 (42.5 overs)

Zimbabwe  162 (46.2 overs)

v

New Zealand 166/0 (33.3 overs)

Sri Lanka  146/3 (32.5 overs)

v

Australia

Kenya  198 (50 overs)

v

Canada 199/5 (45.3 overs)

New Zealand  302/7 (50 overs)

v

Pakistan 192 (41.4 overs)

Sri Lanka  327/6 (50 overs)

v

Zimbabwe 188 (39 overs)

New Zealand  358/6 (50 overs)

v

Canada 261/9 (50 overs)

Australia  324/6 (50 overs)

v

Kenya 264/6 (50 overs)

Zimbabwe  151/7 (39.4/39.4 overs)

v

Pakistan 164/3 (34.1/38 overs)

Canada  211 (45.4 overs)

v

Australia 212/3 (34.5 overs)

Sri Lanka  265/9 (50 overs)

v

New Zealand 153 (35 overs)

Australia  176 (46.4 overs)

v

Pakistan 178/6 (41 overs)

Zimbabwe  308/6 (50 overs)

v

Kenya 147 (36 overs)

Group B

Template:2011 Cricket World Cup Group B The top four teams from each group qualified for the Quarter finals (indicated in green).

India  370/4 (50 overs)

v

Bangladesh 283/9 (50 overs)

Netherlands  292/6 (50 overs)

v

England 296/4 (48.4 overs)

West Indies  222 (47.3 overs)

v

South Africa 223/3 (42.5 overs)

Bangladesh  205 (49.2 overs)

v

Ireland 178 (45 overs)

India  338 (49.5 overs)

v

England 338/8 (50 overs)

West Indies  330/8 (50 overs)

v

Netherlands 115 (31.3 overs)

England  327/8 (50 overs)

v

Ireland 329/7 (49.1 overs)

South Africa  351/5 (50 overs)

v

Netherlands 120 (34.5 overs)

Bangladesh  58 (18.5 overs)

v

West Indies 59/1 (12.2 overs)

England  171 (45.4 overs)

v

South Africa 165 (47.4 overs)

Ireland  207 (47.5 overs)

v

India 210/5 (46.0 overs)

Netherlands  189 (46.4 overs)

v

India 191/5 (36.3 overs)

West Indies  275 (50 overs)

v

Ireland 231 (49 overs)

England  225 (49.4 overs)

v

Bangladesh 227/8 (49 overs)

India  296 (48.4 overs)

v

South Africa 300/7 (49.4 overs)

Netherlands  160 (46.2 overs)

v

Bangladesh 166/4 (40.2 overs)

South Africa  272/7 (50 overs)

v

Ireland 141 (33.2 overs)

England  243 (48.4 overs)

v

West Indies 225 (44.4 overs)

Netherlands  306 (50 overs)

v

Ireland 307/4 (47.4 overs)

South Africa  284/8 (50 overs)

v

Bangladesh 78 (28 overs)

India  268 (49.1 overs)

v

West Indies 188 (43 overs)

Knockout stage

Template:2011 Cricket World Cup knockout stage bracket

Quarter-finals

West Indies  112 (43.3 overs)

v

Pakistan 113/0 (20.5 overs)

Australia  260/6 (50 overs)

v

India 261/5 (47.4 overs)

New Zealand  221/8 (50 overs)

v

South Africa 172 (43.2 overs)

England  229/6 (50 overs)

v

Sri Lanka 231/0 (39.3 overs)

Semi-finals

New Zealand  217 (48.5 overs)

v

Sri Lanka 220/5 (47.5 overs)

India  260/9 (50 overs)

v

Pakistan 231 (49.5 overs)

Final

Sri Lanka  274/6 (50 overs)

v

India 277/4 (48.2 overs)

Statistics

Leading run scorers Runs Player Team Matches 500 Tillakaratne Dilshan  Sri Lanka 9 482 Sachin Tendulkar  India 9 465 Kumar Sangakkara  Sri Lanka 9 422 Jonathan Trott  England 7 395 Upul Tharanga  Sri Lanka 8

Leading wicket takers Wickets Player Team Matches 21 Shahid Afridi  Pakistan 8 21 Zaheer Khan  India 9 18 Tim Southee  New Zealand 8 15 Robin Peterson  South Africa 7 15 Yuvraj Singh  India 9

Controversies

• Bangladeshi fans threw rocks at the West Indies team bus as it returned players to their hotel after their win over Bangladesh in Dhaka on 4 March. It was later claimed that the rock-throwers had confused the bus with the Bangladesh team bus. The elite Rapid Action Battalion of Bangladesh arrested 38 people after the attack, and the West Indians later received an apology.
• The political party Shiv Sena threatened to disrupt the final in Mumbai if the Pakistani team qualified.
• During the group stage match between India and England, Ian Bell was given not out for leg before wicket despite the ball hitting him in line with the wickets and being on a path to hit the stumps. India captain MS Dhoni referred the decision to the TV umpire, who confirmed the original decision as the ball had struck Bell at a point more than 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) from the stumps, a point at which the reliability of the Hawk-Eye system diminishes below acceptable levels. Dhoni later complained that the rule had deprived his side of what seemed like an obvious wicket. The rules were subsequently revised and the umpires were given new guidelines. The Sri Lankan captain, Kumar Sangakkara, later criticised the decision to alter the 2.5-metre rule while a tournament was in progress.
• In the final between India and Sri Lanka, loud crowd noise prevented match referee Jeff Crowe from hearing Sri Lankan captain Sangakkara's call as the coin was tossed by Indian captain Dhoni. The toss had to be redone – an extremely unusual event, especially at as prominent an event as the World Cup final.

See also

• List of Cricket World Cup records
• Politics and sports

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