One day International (ODI) cricket. The event is organized by the sport's governing body -ICC with preliminary qualification rounds leading up to a finals tournament which is held every four years. The tournament is the world's fourth largest and most viewed sporting event in the world. According to the ICC, it is the most important tournament and the pinnacle of achievement in the field of sports. The first Cricket World Cup contest was organized in England in 1975. A separate Women's has been held every four years since 1973.
It is the 10th Cricket world cup of 50 over limited cricket. This year format has been changed as previous one caused elimination of two crowd pulling countries India and Pakistan; these teams are real crowd pullers even people in both the countries love to see these teams playing each other. Therefore organizers realized this time round.
Sri Lanka, Australia, India, Pakistan, Canada, Zimbabwe, SouthAfrika, New Zealand, Kenya, Bangladesh, Ireland, Netherland, West Indies and England in all 14 teams are participating in this KUMBH MELA of cricket. These matches will start from 19th Feb. 2011, opening ceremony will be held on 17th Feb. 2011. Finals are on 3rd April. India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are host of these 49 matches. Cricket world cup 2011 will also allow non - test cricketing teams to compete.
Cricket World Cup 2011 fixtures has been divided in to two groups A and B each group has eight teams and each team will play all the teams. These fixtures have been rated e 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 20/2010After IPL-3 and FIFA world cup now it is the Cricket world Cup. as one of the best cricket world cup fixtures. 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.
Business worth millions is going to take place as hotel, travel advertisement and TV and ticket sale and sale of other merchandise is going to generate huge sums of money.
3rd. edition of Cricket World Cup which was played in England in the year 1983, it was also known as prudential cup. India won in the captaincy of Kapil Dev, now it is the turn of Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his well balanced team and advantage of home ground; new fixtures make this world cup more interesting. The win will be gift to Sachin and glory to the nation and millions of fans in the country.
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