ICC World cup - 2011 - Cricket season begins again..

The countdown for the most awaited cricket world cup 2011 has began. As we all know the world cup event will start from feb 19- 2011 onwards. The 10th world cup is hosted in 3 countries including India along with Bangladesh and SriLanka. There are 14 teams participating. This world cup has 42 matches at group stages and 7 matches at knockout stage to decide who will lift the prestigious world cup.

The Mascot for the ICC world cup 2011 is called the jumbo. The world cup trophy has making rounds to all the cities in India and people are crazy to have a glimpse of it.

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.

Schedule of ICC World Cup - 2011

First Round
1	Sat	19 Feb	08:30	India	V/S	Bangladesh	Dhaka
2	Sun	20 Feb	04:00	New Zealand	V/S	Kenya	Chennai
3	Sun	20 Feb	08:30	Sri Lanka	V/S	Canada	Hambantota
4	Mon	21 Feb	08:30	Australia	V/S	Zimbabwe	Ahmedabad
5	Tue	22 Feb	08:30	England	V/S	Netherlands	Nagpur
6	Wed	23 Feb	08:30	Pakistan	V/S	Kenya	Hambantota
7	Thu	24 Feb	08:30	South Africa	V/S	West Indies	New Delhi
8	Fri	25 Feb	08:30	New Zealand	V/S	Australia	Nagpur
9	Fri	25 Feb	04:00	Bangladesh	V/S	Ireland	Dhaka
10	Sat	26 Feb	08:30	Sri Lanka	V/S	Pakistan	Colombo
11	Sun	27 Feb	08:30	India	V/S	England	Bengaluru
12	Mon	28 Feb	08:30	West Indies	V/S	Netherlands	New Delhi
13	Mon	28 Feb	04:00	Zimbabwe	V/S	Canada	Nagpur
14	Tue	1 Mar	08:30	Sri Lanka	V/S	Kenya	Colombo
15	Wed	2 Mar	08:30	England	V/S	Ireland	Bangalore
16	Thu	3 Mar	04:00	South Africa	V/S	Netherlands	Mohali
17	Thu	3 Mar 2011	08:30	Pakistan	V/S	Canada	Colombo
18	Fri	4 Mar 2011	04:00	New Zealand	V/S	Zimbabwe	Ahmedabad
19	Fri	4 Mar	08:30	Bangladesh	V/S	West Indies	Dhaka
20	Sat	5 Mar	08:30	Sri Lanka	V/S	Australia	Colombo
21	Sun	6 Mar	08:30	India	V/S	Ireland	Bangalore
22	Sun	6 Mar	04:00	England	V/S	South Africa	Chennai
23	Mon	7 Mar	08:30	Kenya	V/S	Canada	Delhi
24	Tue	8 Mar	08:30	Pakistan	V/S	NewZealand	Kandy
25	Wed	9 Mar	08:30	India	V/S	Netherlands	New Delhi
26	Thu	10 Mar	08:30	Sri Lanka	V/S	Zimbabwe	Kandy
27	Thu	11 Mar	04:00	Ireland	V/S	West Indies	Mohali
28	Thu	11 Mar	08:30	Bangladesh	V/S	England	Chittagong
29	Sat	12 Mar	08:30	India	V/S	South Africa	Nagpur
30	Sun	13 Mar	04:00	New Zealand	V/S	Canada	Mumbai
31	Sun	13 Mar	08:30	Australia	V/S	Kenya	Bengaluru
32	Mon	14 Mar	08:30	Pakistan	V/S	Zimbabwe	Kandy
33	Mon	14 Mar	04:00	Bangladesh	V/S	Netherlands	Chittagong
34	Tue	15 Mar	08:30	South Africa	V/S	Ireland	Kolkata
35	Wed	16 Mar	08:30	Australia	V/S	Canada	Bengaluru
36	Thu	17 Mar	08:30	England	V/S	West Indies	Chennai
37	Fri	18 Mar	08:30	Sri Lanka	V/S	NewZealand	Mumbai
38	Fri	18 Mar	04:00	Ireland	V/S	Netherlands	Kolkata
39	Sat	19 Mar	08:30	Pakistan	V/S	Australia	Colombo
40	Sat	19 Mar	04:00	Bangladesh	V/S	South Africa	Dhaka
41	Sun	20 Mar	04:00	Zimbabwe	V/S	Kenya	Kolkata
42	Sun	20 Mar	08:30	India	V/S	West Indies	Chennai
Quarter Final
43	Wed	23 Mar	08:30	Pakistan	V/S	West Indies	Dhaka
44	Thu	24 Mar	08:30	India	V/S	Australia	Ahmedabad
45	Fri	25 Mar	08:30	NewZealand	V/S	South Africa	Dhaka
46	Sat	26 Mar	08:30	Sri Lanka	V/S	England	Colombo
Semi Final
47	Tue	29 Mar	08:30	Winner of Match 43	V/S	Winner of Match 45	Colombo
48	Wed	30 Mar	08:30	Winner of Match 44	V/S	Winner of Match 46	Mohali
Grand Finale
49	Sat	2 Apr	08:30	Winner of Match 47	V/S	Winner of Match 48	Mumbai