2011 ICC Men's 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.

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.

|colspan=2|Group A|colspan=2|Group B|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||2|(co-host)|
|3||4||
|5||6||
|7|(co-host)|8||
|9||10|(co-host)|
|11||12||
|13||14||

## 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.

|colspan=5|India||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|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|
||Wankhede Stadium|Punjab Cricket Association Stadium|M. Chinnaswamy Stadium||
||Capacity: 32,000|Capacity: 42,000|Capacity: 36,430||
|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|

## 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 final was played between India and Sri Lanka, the first between two Asian teams.

## Infobox (cricket tournament)

- **name**: ICC Cricket World Cup 2011
- **fromdate**: 19 February
- **todate**: 2 April
- **administrator**: International Cricket Council
- **cricket format**: One Day International
- **tournament format**: Round-robin tournament, Round-robin and Single-elimination tournament, Knockout
- **host**:

- **count**: 2
- **participants**: 14 (from 104 entrants)
- **matches**: 49
- **attendance**: 1229826
- **player of the series**: Yuvraj Singh
- **most runs**: Tillakaratne Dilshan (500)
- **website**: [http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc-cricket-world-cup-2011 ICC Cricket World Cup 2011]
- **drs**: Yes
- **previous year**: 2007
- **previous tournament**: 2007 Cricket World Cup
- **next year**: 2015
- **next tournament**: 2015 Cricket World Cup
- **imagesize**: 200px
- **venues**: 13