2011 Cricket World Cup

The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup was the tenth Cricket World Cup. It was played in India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. It was Bangladesh's first time co-hosting a World Cup.

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	India (2nd title)
Participants	14 (from 104 entrants)
Matches played	49
Attendance	1,229,826 (25,098 per match)
Man of the Series	Yuvraj Singh
Most runs	Tillakaratne Dilshan (500)
Most wickets	Zaheer Khan (21) Shahid Afridi (21)
Official website	ICC Cricket World Cup 2011
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All matches in the World Cup were given One Day International status. All matches played had over 50 overs. Fourteen national cricket teams were in the tournament, including ten full members and four associate members. The World Cup was between 19 February and 2 April 2011. The first match played on 19 February 2011 was with co-hosts India and Bangladesh at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka.

India won the tournament defeating Sri Lanka by 6 wickets in the final. India was the first nation to win the Cricket World Cup final on home soil. India's Yuvraj Singh was made the man of the tournament.

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 (co-host)
3	Pakistan	4	South Africa
5	New Zealand	6	England
7	Sri Lanka (co-host)	8	West Indies
9	Zimbabwe	10	Bangladesh (co-host)
Associate Members
11	Canada	12	Ireland
13	Kenya	14	Netherlands

Opening ceremony

The Opening Ceremony was in Bangladesh. The place for the opening ceremony was Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka. The event took place on 17 February 2011, 2 days before the first match of the World Cup.

Venues

All the Indian stadiums for the 2011 World Cup were set. The venues of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka were picked in late October 2009. Two new stadiums in Sri Lanka were built for the 2011 World Cup. They are located in Kandy and Hambantota.

India
Kolkata	Chennai	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	Kandy	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

Kolkata New Delhi Ahmedabad Chennai Mohali Nagpur Bangalore Mumbai class=notpageimage| Venues in India

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Chittagong Dhaka class=notpageimage| Venues in Bangladesh

Umpires

The Umpire selection panel selected 18 umpires and a reserve umpire, Enamul Haque (Bangladesh). There were 5 from Australia, 6 from Asia, 3 from England, 2 from New Zealand and 1 each from South Africa and West Indies.

Australia

• Simon Taufel
• Steve Davis
• Rod Tucker
• Daryl Harper
• Bruce Oxenford

New Zealand

• Billy Bowden
• Tony Hill

South Africa

• Marais Erasmus

Pakistan

• Aleem Dar
• Asad Rauf

India

• Shavir Tarapore
• Amiesh Saheba

England

• Ian Gould
• Richard Kettleborough
• Nigel Llong

Sri Lanka

• Asoka de Silva
• Kumar Dharmasena

West Indies

• Billy Doctrove

2011 World Cup Final

The 2011 World Cup final was played between India and Sri Lanka making it the first ever World Cup Final featuring two Asian teams. The highlight of the 2011 World Cup Final was Indian Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni's innings that took India over the line making him one of the most respected Captains in cricket history.