Cricket World Cup 2011

Logo of the 2011 Cricket World Cup

The ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 was the tenth Cricket World Cup in which the most important trophy in cricket was played. The World Cup will be played in the One-Day International format, with each team playing one innings over a maximum of 50 overs . The event took place from February 19 to April 2, 2011 in Bangladesh , India and Sri Lanka . Pakistan was deposed as a co-host following the attack on the Sri Lankan national cricket team in 2009. The opening ceremony took place on February 17, 2011 at Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka . In the final, India beat Sri Lanka with six wickets.

Attendees

In addition to the current ten test nations, four qualifiers from Ireland, Canada, Kenya and the Netherlands, who were able to prevail in the World Cup Qualifiers 2009 , qualified for the tournament. The field of participants thus consisted of the following 14 national teams:

Australia Bangladesh England India Ireland Canada Kenya

Netherlands New Zealand Pakistan South Africa Zimbabwe Sri Lanka West Indies

format

In two preliminary round groups with seven teams each, everyone plays against each other, with a win earning two points, a tie or a no result one point. The top four teams in each group qualify for the quarter-finals. Its winners then determine the finalists in the semi-finals. A total of 49 games were played with it.

Venues

Chittagong Dhaka

Venues of the ICC World Cup 2011 in Bangladesh

Mohali New Delhi Ahmedabad Kolkata Nagpur Mumbai Bangalore Chennai

Venues of the ICC World Cup 2011 in India

Colombo Kandy Hambantota

Venues of the ICC World Cup 2011 in Sri Lanka

Thirteen stadiums have been chosen as the venues, eight of which are in India, three in Sri Lanka and two in Bangladesh.

city	country	Stadion	capacity
Chittagong	Bangladesh	Chittagong Divisional Stadium	20,000
Dhaka	Bangladesh	Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium	35,000
New Delhi	India	Feroz Shah Kotla	48,000
Calcutta	India	Eden Gardens	82,000
Mumbai	India	Wankhede Stadium	33,000
Mohali	India	Punjab Cricket Association Stadium	35,000
Ahmedabad	India	Sardar Patel Stadium	50,000
Nagpur	India	Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium	45,000
Bangalore	India	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium	42,000
Chennai	India	MA Chidambaram Stadium	46,000
Colombo	Sri Lanka	R. Premadasa Stadium	35,000
Kandy	Sri Lanka	Pallekele International Cricket Stadium	35,000
Hambantota	Sri Lanka	Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium	33,000

Before the tournament

Award

The rights for the Cricket World Cup 2011 were given in April 2006 to the four South Asian nations of Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. They prevailed against the applications of Australia and New Zealand in the decisive vote with ten to three. In return, the losers received the 2015 Cricket World Cup .

Withdrawal of Pakistan's hosting rights

When the attack on the national cricket team of Sri Lanka in Lahore took place on March 3, 2009 , the already existing security concerns of many nations increased. On April 17, 2009 the ICC decided that none of the 14 planned games should be played in Pakistan, but that they should be distributed among the other three hosts. Pakistan then threatened legal action and, in addition to financial compensation, demanded that the games that should have taken place in Pakistan be given to a neutral venue (the United Arab Emirates were being considered ). Ultimately, it was possible to agree on financial compensation.

Associates

The focus of this tournament was on the associate members of the ICC, the second row of national teams represented at this tournament by Ireland, Canada, Kenya and the Netherlands. The reason is the decision to reduce the number of participants to 10 teams for future World Cup tournaments and the fear that it would be so impossible that one of these teams could still take part in the World Cup. At the ICC meeting directly after the tournament, the fears were confirmed when it was decided that only the ten full members of the ICC would be allowed to participate in the 2015 World Cup.

Preliminary round

The group stage will be played in two groups of seven teams each, with the first four of each group qualifying for the quarter-finals.

Group A

In Group A, the test nations Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan and Sri Lanka met the Associates Canada and Kenya and Zimbabwe, whose test status was suspended. With the four test nations, the qualifiers for the quarter-finals were certain early on, as no smaller nation managed to cause a surprise. When playing out the positions for the quarter-finals, a game between Sri Lanka and Australia that was abandoned due to rain was important and was rated as a no result. The group win was ultimately secured by Pakistan, which beat Australia in the last game.

table

Group A	Sp.	S.	N	NO	P	NRR
Pakistan	6th	5	1	0	10	+0.758
Sri Lanka	6th	4th	1	1	9	+2,582
Australia	6th	4th	1	1	9	+1,123
New Zealand	6th	4th	2	0	8th	+1,135
Zimbabwe	6th	2	4th	0	4th	+0.030
Canada	6th	1	5	0	2	−1,987
Kenya	6th	0	6th	0	0	−3.042

Games

February 20 scorecard	Chennai	Kenya 69 (23.5)	-	New Zealand 72-0 (8.0)
		New Zealand wins with 10 wickets

February 20 scorecard	Hambantota	Sri Lanka 332-7 (50)	-	Canada 122 (36.5)
		Sri Lanka wins with 210 runs

February 21 scorecard	Ahmedabad	Australia 262-6 (50)	-	Zimbabwe 171 (46.2)
		Australia wins with 91 runs

February 23 scorecard	Hambantota	Pakistan 317-7 (50)	-	Kenya 112 (33.1)
		Pakistan wins with 205 runs

February 25 scorecard	Nagpur	New Zealand 206 (45.1)	-	Australia 207-3 (34.0)
		Australia wins with 7 wickets

February 26 scorecard	Colombo	Pakistan 277-7 (50)	-	Sri Lanka 266-9 (50)
		Pakistan wins with 11 runs

February 28 scorecard	Nagpur	Zimbabwe 298-9 (50)	-	Canada 123 (42.1)
		Zimbabwe wins with 175 runs

March 1st scorecard	Colombo	Kenya 142 (43.4)	-	Sri Lanka 146-1 (18.4)
		Sri Lanka wins with 9 wickets

March 3 scorecard	Colombo	Pakistan 184 (43.0)	-	Canada 138 (42.5)
		Pakistan wins with 46 runs

March 4th scorecard	Ahmedabad	Zimbabwe 162 (46.2)	-	New Zealand 166-0 (33.3)
		New Zealand wins with 10 wickets

March 5 scorecard	Colombo	Sri Lanka 146-3 (32.5)	-	Australia
		No result

March 7th scorecard	New Delhi	Kenya 198 (50)	-	Canada 199-5 (45.3)
		Canada wins with 5 wickets

March 8 scorecard	Kandy	New Zealand 302-7 (50)	-	Pakistan 192 (41.4)
		New Zealand wins with 110 runs

March 10 scorecard	Kandy	Sri Lanka 327-6 (50)	-	Zimbabwe 188 (39.0)
		Sri Lanka wins with 139 runs

March 13 scorecard	Mumbai	New Zealand 358-6 (50)	-	Canada 261-9 (50)
		New Zealand wins with 97 runs

March 13 scorecard	Bangalore	Australia 324-6 (50)	-	Kenya 264-6 (50)
		Australia wins with 60 runs

March 14th Scorecard	Kandy	Zimbabwe 151-7 (39.4 / 39.4)	-	Pakistan 164-3 (34.1 / 38.0)
		Pakistan wins with 7 wickets ( D / L method )

March 16 scorecard	Bangalore	Canada 211 (45.4)	-	Australia 212-3 (34.5)
		Australia wins with 7 wickets

March 18 scorecard	Mumbai	Sri Lanka 265-9 (50)	-	New Zealand 153 (35.0)
		Sri Lanka wins with 112 runs

March 19 scorecard	Colombo	Australia 176 (46.4)	-	Pakistan 178-6 (41.0)
		Pakistan wins with 4 wickets

March 20 scorecard	Calcutta	Zimbabwe 308-6 (50)	-	Kenya 147 (36.0)
		Zimbabwe wins with 161 runs

Group B

In Group B, the four favored test nations England, India, South Africa and the West Indies were compared to Associates Ireland and the Netherlands and the host test nation, Bangladesh, which was seen as an outsider. The group got tension from the fact that England lost to Ireland and Bangladesh and could only save themselves from elimination with a win in the last game against the West Indies. In the last game, Bangladesh again gambled away their chance of the quarter-finals against the West Indies, so that ultimately the favored teams could prevail.

table

Group B	Sp.	S.	N	U	NO	P	NRR
South Africa	6th	5	1	0	0	10	+2,026
India	6th	4th	1	1	0	9	+0.900
England	6th	3	2	1	0	7th	+0.072
West Indies	6th	3	3	0	0	6th	+1,066
Bangladesh	6th	3	3	0	0	6th	−1,361
Ireland	6th	2	4th	0	0	4th	−0.696
Netherlands	6th	0	6th	0	0	0	−2.045

Games

February 19th scorecard	Dhaka	India 370-4 (50)	-	Bangladesh 283-9 (50)
		India wins with 87 runs

February 22nd scorecard	Nagpur	Netherlands 292-6 (50)	-	England 296-4 (48.4)
		England wins with 6 wickets

February 24th scorecard	New Delhi	West Indies 222 (47.3)	-	South Africa 223-3 (42.5)
		South Africa wins with 7 wickets

February 25 scorecard	Dhaka	Bangladesh 205 (49.2)	-	Ireland 178 (45.0)
		Bangladesh wins with 27 runs

February 27 scorecard	Bangalore	India 338 (49.5)	-	England 338-8 (50)
		draw

February 28 scorecard	New Delhi	West Indies 330-8 (50)	-	Netherlands 115 (31.3)
		West Indies wins with 215 runs

March 2nd scorecard	Bangalore	England 327-8 (50)	-	Ireland 329-7 (49.1)
		Ireland wins with 3 wickets

March 3 scorecard	Mohali	South Africa 351-5 (50)	-	Netherlands 120 (34.5)
		South Africa wins with 231 runs

March 4th scorecard	Dhaka	Bangladesh 58 (18.5)	-	West Indies 59-1 (12.2)
		West Indies wins with 9 wickets

March 6th scorecard	Chennai	England 171 (45.4)	-	South Africa 165 (47.4)
		England wins with 6 runs

March 6th scorecard	Bangalore	Ireland 207 (47.5)	-	India 210-5 (46.0)
		India wins with 5 wickets

March 9 scorecard	New Delhi	Netherlands 189 (46.4)	-	India 191-5 (36.3)
		India wins with 5 wickets

March 11th scorecard	Mohali	West Indies 275 (50)	-	Ireland 231 (49.0)
		West Indies wins with 44 runs

March 11th scorecard	Chittagong	England 225 (49.4)	-	Bangladesh 227-8 (49.0)
		Bangladesh wins with 2 wickets

March 12 scorecard	Nagpur	India 296 (48.4)	-	South Africa 300-7 (49.4)
		South Africa wins with 3 wickets

March 14th Scorecard	Chittagong	Netherlands 160 (46.2)	-	Bangladesh 166-4 (41.2)
		Bangladesh wins with 6 wickets

March 15 scorecard	Calcutta	South Africa 272-7 (50)	-	Ireland 141 (33.2)
		South Africa wins with 131 runs

March 17th Scorecard	Chennai	England 243 (48.4)	-	West Indies 225 (44.4)
		England wins with 18 runs

March 18 scorecard	Calcutta	Netherlands 306 (50)	-	Ireland 307-4 (47.4)
		Ireland wins with 6 wickets

March 19 scorecard	Dhaka	South Africa 284-8 (50)	-	Bangladesh 78 (28.0)
		South Africa wins with 206 runs

March 20 scorecard	Chennai	India 268 (49.1)	-	West Indies 188 (43.0)
		India wins with 80 runs

Quarter finals

At the end of the preliminary round, as planned, the venues (not pairings) were determined to enable India and Sri Lanka to play at home.

March 23 scorecard	Dhaka	West Indies 112 (43.3)	-	Pakistan 113-0 (20.5)
		Pakistan wins with 10 wickets

The West Indies started on strike, but quickly lost three wickets. When the performance stabilized at a low run rate , four more wickets were lost within eight balls in the 27th and 28th over . Shivnarine Chanderpaul managed 44 runs with two remaining wickets before they were lost in the 43rd and 44th over. Mohammad Hafeez, who was recognized as player of the game with his two wickets in only 16 permitted runs, and Shahid Afridi with four wickets were responsible for the only 112 runs achieved. In the Pakistani innings , the two batsmen Kamran Akmal and Mohammad Hafeez ensured the never-threatened victory in the 21st over with 47 and 61 runs respectively.

March 24th scorecard	Ahmedabad	Australia 260-6 (50)	-	India 261-5 (47.4)
		India wins with 5 wickets

Australia chose to batting first and played a solid innings. Above all, captain Ricky Ponting succeeded in keeping Australia in the game with his 104 runs. The wickets on the Indian side were shared by Ravichandran Ashwin, Zaheer Khan and Yuvraj Singh. In the following Indian hunt, Sachin Tendulkar managed the 18,000th run of his career in ODI format. He (53 runs), Gautam Gambhir (50) and ultimately Yuvray Singh (57) each managed more than 50 runs and so they sealed the defending champion's retirement in front of their home crowd. Yuvray Singh became the player of the game.

March 25 scorecard	Dhaka	New Zealand 221-8 (50)	-	South Africa 172 (43.2)
		New Zealand wins with 49 runs

New Zealand quickly lost its first two wickets but was then able to stabilize with the help of Jesse Ryder and Ross Tayler. This brought the team to 130 runs for three wickets. In the further course the batsmen of New Zealand were able to maintain the level reached, whereby South Africa did not manage to get all the wickets. Morne Morkel was the South African most successful thrower with three wickets. The following South African hunt was initially promising despite the loss of the first wicket in the first over, but lost enormous momentum towards the middle of the inning with the loss of Jacques Kallis . In the following ten overs, Jacob Oram and Nathan McCallum, who scored four and three wickets, respectively, that South Africa came under increasing pressure. After 132 runs there was a seventh loss of wicket in the 35th over. Since South Africa failed to initiate a turnaround, the 44th over, with 49 runs too few, ended. Jacob Oram became the player of the game.

March 26 scorecard	Colombo	England 229-6 (50)	-	Sri Lanka 231-0 (39.3)
		Sri Lanka wins with 10 wickets

England started moderately. The run rate was only average in the first half of the inning, and when they lost their third wicket in the 26th over, they stood at 95 runs. Then Eoin Morgan, who came to the loft, was able to lift it together with Jonathan Trott, and both managed 50 runs (Morgan) or more (Trott: 86). This level could be maintained by the next batsmen, so that one came to an acceptable 229 runs. The response from Sri Lanka was a walk-through by the two opening batsmen. Both Tillakaratne Dilshan (108 runs) and Upul Tharanga (102) managed more than 100 runs and so England could be defeated without losing a wicket.

Semifinals

March 29 scorecard	Colombo	New Zealand 217 (48.5)	-	Sri Lanka 220-5 (47.5)
		Sri Lanka wins with 5 wickets

New Zealand chose to batting first and had a moderate run rate until their third wicket in the 21st over. Only with the use of Scott Styris, who scored a total of 57 runs, the situation improved for the New Zealanders. They increased to 192 runs in 45th over when the sixth wicket fell. From this point onwards New Zealand lost its stability in the stroke and shortly afterwards lost the remaining four wickets, between which they could only achieve 13 more runs themselves. The best throwers on Sri Lanka's side Lasith Malinga and Ajantha Mendis could stand out with three wickets each. Sri Lanka's run rate initially remained above that of New Zealand, but did not pull away significantly. Tillakaratne Dilshan and Kumar Sangakkara were responsible for this with 73 and 54 runs respectively. From the 32nd over, the game threatened to tip over when Sri Lanka lost three wickets within four over. The run rate also went downhill afterwards. It was only in the 45th and 46th over that Sri Lanka could finally shape the game for itself. At first, the New Zealand wicket keeper Brendon McCullum could not reach a ball from Andy McKay and had to accept five wides . In the following ball, Angelo Mathews' possible wicket was not recognized, as the video evidence could not clearly clarify whether he had touched the ball with his bat when it was caught by the New Zealand wicket keeper. This in turn succeeded in the following over then two strokes over the edge of the field. With these ten runs, the game was as good as decided and Sri Lanka couldn’t miss this chance either.

March 30th scorecard	Mohali	India 260-9 (50)	-	Pakistan 231 (49.5)
		India wins with 29 runs

India decided to hit first and started the first ten overs, which are basically power play, with 73 runs, with only Virender Sehwag's wicket being lost. The run rate could still be kept high until Virat Kohli and Yuvraj Singh were eliminated within two balls in the 25th over. The best batsman in India, Sachin Tendulkar , was eliminated after 36 overs with 85 runs, after Pakistani players had previously dropped the ball four times after he had hit him. The remaining batsmen then struggled to save themselves until the end of the 50 overs, but they succeeded thanks to Suresh Raina, who was still able to achieve 36 runs. Among the Pakistani bowlers, Wahab Riaz stood out, scoring five wickets. The Pakistani race to catch up started with less momentum than India before, which they could not make up for in the course of their innings. The two opening batsmen Kamran Akmal and Mohammad Hafeez were eliminated after the 15th over and Misbah-ul-Haq was the most successful of the remaining with 56 runs. All five Indian bowlers used achieved two wickets each, with Ashish Nehra, who joined the team, allowing the fewest runs (33). Ultimately it was enough for India with 29 runs ahead when they sent Pakistan off the field with the penultimate ball.

final

April 2nd scorecard	Mumbai	Sri Lanka 274-6 (50)	-	India 277-4 (48.2)
		India wins with 6 wickets

Sri Lanka began batting after a controversial coin toss that had to be retried due to a communication problem. Their start was bumpy at first when both "opening batsmen", Upul Tharanga and Tillakaratne Dilshan, were lost for 60 runs by the 17th over. Mahela Jayawardene, who then came into play, ensured that Sri Lanka had a decent result with his 103 runs. After the following two wickets of his partners fell in quick succession in the 39th and 40th over, he was mainly supported by Nuwan Kulasekara and Thisara Perera, who conquered 32 and 22 runs from relatively few balls. As the best Indian bowlers, Zaheer Kahn and Yuvraj Singh were able to stand out with 2 wickets each. The Indian innings also started with the quick loss of both opening batsmen until the 7th over. Responsible for this was the bowler Lasith Malinga, who got both wickets. It was mainly due to Gautam Gambhir (97 runs) and the captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (91 runs) that India could still achieve the target. Dhoni made the second World Cup victory for the Indians after 1983 perfect with one stroke over the limit in the 49th over .

Web links

Commons : Cricket World Cup 2011  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official 2011 Cricket World Cup website (English)
• 2011 World Cup website of India (English)

References and comments

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3. ↑ Rules of the game ( Memento of the original from January 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
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16. ↑ ^{a b} Explanation of the abbreviations: Col. = games; S = victories; N = defeats; U = tie; NR = No Result; P = points; NRR = Net Run Rate
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