The World Cup will use Cricket's One Day International format, with fourteen national cricket teams competing.
The event will take place between 19th February and 2nd April 2011, with the first match to be played between co-hosts India and Bangladesh facing off at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur, Dhaka.
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.
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 qualified for the World Cup
Group A Group B
Australia Bangladesh
New Zealand England
Pakistan India
Sri Lanka South Africa
Zimbabwe West Indies
Canada Ireland
Kenya Netherlands
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
This should be a entertaining event and will definitely interrupt my online grinding... hopefully not too much
For the Non Cricket Fans (probably 95% of readers) here is a clip of my favourite player Sanath Jayasuriya destroying England
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