Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium will host the 2011 World Cup final while seven other venues in India will be used for the event, which is being jointly hosted with Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The Indian cricket board (BCCI) revealed in a statement that Mohali, Ahmedabad, New Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Nagpur and Kolkata would be the other [...]
India have been placed in Group B — along with England and South Africa — for the 2011 World Cup in the sub-continent, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced on Wednesday after a Board meeting. ICC World Cup 2011 Schedule “In Group A there will be Australia, Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Canada and [...]
The Central Organising Committee (COC) of the 2011 World Cup Tuesday recommended that India should host eight of the 14 cricket matches that were scheduled to take place in Pakistan. The COC met here to provide the ICC Board with a recommendation as to where, within Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka, the 14 matches originally [...]
The 2011 World Cup, to be jointly hosted by India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, is expected to cost between $40 and 50 million. The figure was worked out at a preliminary meeting of the 2011 World Cup sub-committee looking into operations planning and event budgeting here, said tournament director and Cricket Board’s Chief Administrative Officer, [...]
Mumbai will house the 2011 World Cup secretariat and India will host 29 of the 49 matches after the event’s Central Organising Committee today reallocated the games following the ICC decision to drop Pakistan as a co-host of the tournament. Accordingly, the opening match of the 10th edition of the quadrennial tournament would be held [...]
The ICC has asked the 2011 World Cup organising committee to begin preparations for the tournament for which they are already ten months behind schedule. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka will be jointly hosting the World Cup expected to be held in February-March 2011. Saleem Altaf, the Pakistan board’s director-general, said normally the committee [...]