2011 Cricket World Cup
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The 2011 Cricket World Cup will be the tenth time this tournament has been held, and will be held in the four Asian Test cricket playing countries Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
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[edit] Bids
The International Cricket Council announced its decision on which countries would host the 2011 World Cup on April 30, 2006.
Australia and New Zealand also bid for the tournament, and a successful Australasian bid for the 2011 World Cup would have seen a 50-50 split in games, with the final still up for negotiation. The Trans–Tasman bid, Beyond Boundaries, was the only bid for 2011 delivered to ICC headquarters in Dubai ahead of the March 1 deadline. Considerable merits of the Australasian bid were the superior venues and infrastructure and the total support of both the New Zealand and Australian governments on tax and customs issues during the tournament, according to Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland[1]. The New Zealand government had also given assurance that Zimbabwe would be allowed to compete in the tournament, following political discussions in the country whether their cricket team should be allowed to tour Zimbabwe in 2005. The Australasian bid also won the support of West Indies captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul[2].
ICC President Ehsan Mani said the extra time taken by the Asian bloc to hand over its bid compliance book had harmed the four-nation bid. However, when the time came to vote, Asia won the hosting rights by ten votes to three[1]. The Pakistan Cricket Board has revealed that it was the vote of the West Indies Cricket Board that swung the matter, as the Asian bid had the support of the four bidding countries along with South Africa and Zimbabwe[3]. It was reported in Pakistani newspaper Dawn that the Asian countries promised to hold fund-raising events for West Indian cricket during the 2007 World Cup, which may have influenced the vote[4]. However, chairman of the Monitoring Committee of the Asian bid, I. S. Bindra, said it was their promise of extra profits in the region of US$ 400 million that swung the vote[5], that there "was no quid pro quo for their support"[6], and that playing the West Indies had "nothing to do with the World Cup bid"[6].
International cricket politics lie at the heart of the dispute. Since cricket is the most popular sport in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, Asia is of fundamental financial importance to the International Cricket Council[7]. However, historically, international cricket has been controlled by the Old Commonwealth nations of England, Australia, and New Zealand, supported by South Africa. The centre of cricketing politics has moved, over time, with the money, and the Asian nations, particularly India under the guidance of Jagmohan Dalmiya, looking for greater control in the direction of international cricket, and in 2005 Dalmiya said that the Indian subcontinent should host every third World Cup[7].
[edit] Structure
On 11 April 2005, Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Shaharyar Khan announced agreement about the allocation of games, though no decision on the location of semi-finals and final has been made[8]. Three months later, PCB director Abbas Zaidi confirmed that India had been chosen to host the final, while Pakistan and Sri Lanka would host the semi-finals.[9] This will be the first time Sri Lanka will host a World Cup semi-final, after hosting two group games during the 1996 World Cup. The opening ceremony will take place in Bangladesh.[10]
- India: 22 games (including the final)
The final of the 2011 cricket World Cup will be played in New Delhi at a new state-of-the-art stadium to be built by BCCI on the banks of river Yamuna at a cost of about Rs.5 billion[11].
- Pakistan: 16 games (including one semi-final)
- Sri Lanka: 9 games (including one semi-final)
- Venues: R. Premadasa Stadium (Colombo), Sinhalese S.C. (Colombo)
- Bangladesh: 6 games (including the opening ceremony and opening match)
- Venue (one from three will be picked): Bangabandhu National Stadium (Dhaka; the stadium was officially handed over to the football federation in March 2005), Narayanganj Osmani Stadium (Fatullah), Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium (Mirpur)
[edit] Final
The final of the 2011 cricket World Cup will be played at a state-of-the-art stadium to be built on the banks of river Yamuna in New Delhi.
Lalit Modi, vice-president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), said that the board would build the modern stadium and will be the first that the board will own.
"We are going to pull out all stops to make sure that by 2011 World Cup final, which will be hosted in this new stadium in Delhi and which has already been decided by the ICC (International Cricket Council) and the four members (World Cup joint hosts), the stadium is ready," Modi said.
Top officials of the four Asian countries met in London during the ICC annual meetings this month and agreed that the final would be in New Delhi and the two semi-finals would be played in Lahore's Gaddafi Stadium and Colombo's R. Premadasa Stadium, while the opening ceremony would be staged in Dhaka.
When he was asked about the the stadium, Modi said: "We are going to build a world-class stadium; it will be one of the best.
"It's too premature to talk in detail because at this stage we are only looking at it with a vision to make a world-class facility. There will be accommodation, club houses, floodlights, academies...there will be world class facilities."
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[edit] References and notes
- ^ a b Asia to host 2011 World Cup, from Cricinfo, published 30 April 2006
- ^ Cricket: West Indies skipper backs Kiwi bid for 2011 World Cup, by Richard Boock, published by New Zealand Herald on 1 March 2006
- ^ West Indies deal secured 2011 World Cup, retrieved 2 May 2006, from Cricinfo
- ^ a b Asia promises spectacular World Cup, from Dawn, 2 May 2005
- ^ Promise of profit won Asia the bid - Bindra, from Cricinfo, published 7 May 2006
- ^ a b Bindra: No deal with West Indies board, from Cricinfo, published 5 May 2006
- ^ a b Caught behind in race for Cup, by Trevor Marshallsea, published by Sydney Morning Herald on 11 October 2005
- ^ Asian bloc faces stiff competition over 2011 bid, by Cricinfo, published 22 April 2006
- ^ India to host 2011 World Cup final, from Cricinfo, retrieved 8 July 2006
- ^ India lands 2011 World Cup final, from BBC, retrieved 9 July 2006
- ^ New stadium for New Delhi 2011 cricket World Cup final
