2011 WORLD CUP

2011 WORLD CUP

Details:

·       Will be the tenth Cricket World Cup and will be hosted by India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

·       Bangladesh's first time co-hosting a Cricket World Cup.

·       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 opening ceremony will be held on 17 February 2011, two days before the start of the tournament, with the final on 2 April 2011 at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.

·       The World Cup was also supposed to be co-hosted by Pakistan, but in the wake of the 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team in Lahore, the International Cricket Council (ICC) decided to strip Pakistan of its hosting rights.

·       The headquarters of the organizing committee were originally situated in Lahore, but have now been shifted to Mumbai. Pakistan was supposed to hold 14 matches, including one semi-final.

·       Eight of Pakistan's matches have been awarded to India, four to Sri Lanka and two to Bangladesh.

Format:

v    Late in 2007, the four host nations agreed upon a revised format for the 2011 World Cup identical to the 1996 World Cup, the only change being the no. of teams as it was 12 in 1996 and 14 in 2011. The first round of the tournament will be a round-robin in which the 14 teams are divided into 2 groups of 7 teams each. The 7 teams play each other once with the top 4 from each group qualifying for the quarter-finals.

v    The format ensures that each team gets to play a minimum of 6 matches even if they are ruled out of the tournament due to early defeats.

Teams:

List of qualified teams

The following 14 teams qualified for the final tournament. Their ODI rankings are shown in brackets (as of January, 2011). Countries with an asterisk* are Associate Members. 

Ø      Australia (1)

Ø      India (2) (Hosts)

Ø      Sri Lanka (3) (Hosts)

Ø      South Africa (4)

Ø      England (5)

Ø      Pakistan (6)

Ø      New Zealand (7)

Ø      West Indies (8)

Ø      Bangladesh (9) (Hosts) 

Ø      Ireland* (10)  

Ø      Zimbabwe (11)

Ø      Netherlands* (12)

Ø      Kenya* (13)  

Ø      Canada* (16)

Prize:

Trophy

Trophy

The ICC Cricket World Cup Trophy is a running trophy, presented to the winning team since 1999. It was designed by Garrard & Co within 2 months. The original trophy is kept with the ICC at headquarters in Dubai. The winning team is given a replica. The only difference between the two is that the original has the names of all the previous winners inscribed on it.

Prize money

The 2011 Cricket World Cup winning team would be taking home 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$ 10 million. The decision was taken at the ICC Board meeting which was held in Dubai on April 20, 2010.


Symbols

Mascot

Stumpy

     

Stumpy is the official mascot for the 2011 Cricket World Cup. He was unveiled at a function in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Friday, 2 April 2010. He is a ten year old elephant who is very young, enthusiastic and is determined. Cricket-followers based all over the world were able to participate in a contest to name the mascot. The official name of the mascot was released on Monday, 2 August 2010 after an online competition conducted by the International Cricket Council in the last week of July, 2010. It was unveiled by players like Sachin Tendulkar, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Kumar Sangakara with 200 days to go for the world cup.

Official song

Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy

The official song of the 2010 World Cup "De Ghuma Ke" is composed by the trio of Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy, and is sung in Hindi, Bangla and Sinhala.It has been sung by Shankar Mahadevan and Divya Kumar and has been marketed by Ogilvy and Mather. It incorporates an array of Indian rhythms, as well as elements of rock and hip-hop. The song will be performed in the opening ceremony of the tournament to be held in Bangladesh on February 17, 2011.

Ambassador

Sachin

The official event ambassador for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 is Sachin Tendulkar.In his role as ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 ambassador he will be called upon to promote and support a variety of ICC initiatives for the tournament, which is the third biggest sporting event in the world and will take place in Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka from 19 February to 2 April 2011.


Media coverage

The World Cup has grown as a media event with each tournament. International Cricket Council has sold the rights for broadcasting of 2011 Cricket World Cup to ESPN Star Sports and Star Cricket. The tournament would be broadcast all around the world in about 220 countries.