ICC World Cup Cricket 2011 with Match Fixture TV Schedule

by Nawshad P. Shah | February 6, 2011 3:10 am

The stage is ready for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 which will be jointly held in Bangladesh, India and Srilanka from 19th February – 02 April. The World cup is a prestigious event and being held in the sub-continent, where cricket is a passion, religion makes it a special event. Familiar home conditions, fanatical crowd support and a young energetic side give Bangladesh a chance to emerge from the shadows when the World Cup is played in their backyard.

The 43-day, 49 matches tournament will be played under a new format with India hosting a majority of matches (29), including the final in Mumbai. Bangladesh will host the spectacular opening ceremony on 17th February and 8 matches including 2 quarter finals. Interest in the World Cup is high in Bangladesh, as the cricket-crazy nation gears up to host the cricket’s showpiece for the first time.

Groups in which Cricket World Cup 2011 teams are divided:
Group A: Australia, Srilanka, Pakistan, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Canada.
Group B: India, South Africa, England, West Indies, Bangladesh, Ireland Netherlands.

The league stages will feature two groups of seven team, with the top four teams from each group progressing to the quarter finals stage (Knock-out). [Download Australia time Match Fixture & TV Schedule in PDF[1]]

The traditional formula will be followed to determine who plays whom in quarter finals, i.e. the team finishing at the top of Group A will meets the team finishing fourth in Group B (ie. A1 v B4, A2 v B3, A3 v B2, A4 v B1). But the 3 host nations will get to play their quarter final match at home venues, should they make it, irrespective of where they finish in their group.

Bangladesh will participate for the 4th time and have been placed in a very challenging group with India, South Africa, England and West Indies. They must defeat one of the established Test nations and ensure they do not slip-up against Ireland and the Netherlands to advance to the knock-out rounds. The advantage Bangladesh enjoy is they play all their six league matches at home in Dhaka and Chittagong, where they have won seven of their last 10 one-dayers and lost just once.

Expectation is sky high for the Bangladesh team to do well at home soil. A quarterfinal berth is the least millions of fans in the cricket-crazy nation will expect Shakib Al Hasan’s men to achieve, if not an unprecedented place in the semifinals.

Schedule of Bangladesh’s group matches are:

All the matches will be shown LIVE on FOXTEL pay TV. (attached LIVE TV guide). Channel 9 will telecast LIVE only the matches that Australia will play and the finals. There will be many online Video streaming where matches can be seen LIVE, one of them will be WWW. Hitcric.info.

Bangladesh will be playing 2 warm-up matches before the World Cup. On 12th February against Canada and Pakistan on 15th February. So let the fun begin ………..

Current Top ODI Batsmen:
1. Amla (SA) 2. De Villiers (SA) 3. Virat Kohli (Ind), 4. M Hussey (Aust) 5. Chris Gayle (WI) 6. Dilshan (SL), 7. MS Dhoni (Ind) 8. Chanderpaul (WI)

Current Top ODI Bowlers:
1. Vettori (NZ), 2. Morkel (SA), 3. Abdur Razzak (BAN), 4. Swann (ENG), 5. R. Price (ZIM), 6. Shakib (BAN), 7. Bollinger (AUS), 8. Broad (ENG), 9. Kulasekara (SL), 10. D.W. Steyn (SA)

Current Top ODI All rounders:
1. Shakib Al Hasan (BAN), 2. Watson (AUS), 3. Shahid Afridi (PAK), 4. J. Kallis (SA), 5. D. Vettori (NZ), 6. J. Oram (NZ), 7. Yuvraj Singh (IND), 8. P. Collingwood (ENG), 9. Gayle (WI), 10. Doeschate (NED)

Here are some of the statistics of the World Cup Cricket:

Farewell: Sadly this world cup will be the swan song for many great cricketers. Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, Muttiah Muralitharan, Brett Lee, Shoaib Akhter, Jacques Kallis, Mahela Jayewardene, Daniel Vettori, Shivnarien Chandrapaul, Md Ashraful.

No host nations has won the ICC World Cup in it’s own soil. In 1996, the co-host Sri Lanka won the World Cup when the final was played at Karachi, Pakistan.

Official Song: The Official song of the World Cup is “De Ghume Ke” is composed by the trio of Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, and is sung in Hindi, Bangla and Sinhalese. “De Ghume Ke” literally means “Hit it Hard”.

The Trophy: The ICC Cricket World Cup Trophy is a running trophy, presented to the winning team since 1999. The original trophy is kept with the ICC headquarters in Dubai. The winning team is given a replica.

Prize Money: The 2011 Cricket World Cup winning team would be taking home US$ 3 million and US$ 1.5 million for runner-up. The two losing semi-finalists take home $500,000 each, while teams that are knocked out in the quarter-final stage will get $250,000 each.

Fastest Century in World cup was scored by Davison of Canada (67 balls) against West Indies in 2003.

Fastest Fifty: Brian Lara of WI scored the fastest 50 in 23 balls against Canada in 2003.The youngest age at which anyone has played an ICC Cricket World Cup match – the youngest of the seven 17-year-olds was Bangladesh’s Talha Jubair in 2003.

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