Hello guys, good news for all our cricket fans, now here comes the ICC Cricket World Cup schedule for the year 2011, which will be starting from the 13th Feb till the 02nd of April. As everybody know that there is a fever of World cup to every cricket fan because these tournament is mind blowing which comes once in every four years. All the teams who are the qualified champs for world cup, are playing here to become the world champion. There are over all fourteen teams which will be participating in these tournament for the year 2011. Among these fourteen four teams are qualified teams for the World cup and rest all are the major teams who were already ranked in the ICC rankings. These teams are divided into two groups for their first round.

These groups are named as 'Group A' and 'Group B'. They are as follows.

Group A

1. Sri Lanka
2. Australia
3. New Zealand
4. Pakistan
5. Zimbabwe
6. Canada
7. Kenya



Group B

1. India
2. South Africa
3. Bangladesh
4. West Indies
5. England
6. Ireland
7. Netherlands

And now here comes the World cup schedule for which everybody is waiting for as follows:

Group Rounds
Matches - Dates - Matches Between - Venue

1 - 19th Feb - India vs Bangladesh - Dhaka
2 - 20th Feb - Kenya vs New Zealand - Chennai
3 - 20th Feb - Sri Lanka vs Canada - Hambantota
4 - 21st Feb - Australia vs Zimbabwe - Ahmadabad
5 - 22nd Feb - Netherlands vs England - Nagpur
6 - 23rd Feb - Kenya vs Pakistan - Hambantota
7 - 24th Feb - South Africa vs West Indies - Delhi
8 - 25th Feb - Australia vs New Zealand - Nagpur
9 - 25th Feb - Bangladesh vs Ireland - Dhaka
10 - 26th Feb - Sri Lanka vs Pakistan - Colombo
11 - 27th Feb - India vs England - Kolkata
12 - 28th Feb - Netherlands vs West Indies - Delhi
13 - 28th Feb - Canada vs Zimbabwe - Nagpur
14 - 01st Mar - Kenya vs Sri Lanka - Colombo
15 - 02nd Mar - England vs Ireland - Bengaluru
16 - 03rd Mar - South Africa vs Netherlands - Chandigarh
17 - 03rd Mar - Canada vs Pakistan - Colombo
18 - 04th Mar - New Zealand vs Zimbabwe - Ahemadabad
19 - 04th Mar - West Indies vs Bangladesh - Dhaka
20 - 05th Mar - Sri Lanka vs Australia - Colombo
21 - 06th Mar - India vs Ireland - Bengauru
22 - 06th Mar - England vs South Africa - Chennai
23 - 07th Mar - Kenya vs Canada - Delhi
24 - 08th Mar - New Zealand vs Pakistan - Pallekele
25 - 09th Mar - India vs Netherlands - Delhi
26 - 10th Mar - Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe - Pallekele
27 - 11th Mar - Ireland vs West Indies - Chandigarh
28 - 11th Mar - Bangladesh vs England - Chittagong
29 - 12th Mar - India vs South Africa - Nagpur
30 - 13th Mar - Canada vs New Zealand - Mumbai
31 - 13th Mar - Australia vs Kenya - Bengaluru
32 - 14th Mar - Pakistan vs Zimbabwe - Chittagong
33 - 14th Mar - Bangladesh vs Netherlands - Chittagong
34 - 15th Mar - South Africa vs Ireland - Kolkata
35 - 16th Mar - Australia vs Canada - Bengaluru
36 - 17th Mar - West Indies vs England - Chennai
37 - 18th Mar - Sri Lanka vs New Zealand - Mumbai
38 - 18th Mar - Netherlands vs Ireland - Kolkata
39 - 19th Mar - Australia vs Pakistan - Colombo
40 - 19th Mar - South Africa vs Bangladesh - Dhaka
41 - 20th Mar - Zimbabwe vs Kenya - Kolkata
42 - 21st Mar - India vs West Indies - Chennai

This was the schedule of the group round matches. Now from these rounds 8 teams with the highest points will be selected for the quarter final rounds. The schedule of the quarter final matches are as follows.

Quarter Final Rounds

Date - Matches - Venue

23rd Mar - First Quarter Final - Dhaka
24th Mar - Second Quarter Final - Colombo
25th Mar - Third Quarter Final - Dhaka
26th Mar - Fourth Quarter Final - Ahmedabad


Then after the quarter finalist matches the winning team will be eligible to play for the semi finals. Four teams from the quarter final will enter into the semis. The schedule of the semi final matches are as follows.

Semi Final Rounds

Date - Matches - Venue

29th Mar - First Semi Final - Colombo
30th Mar - Second Semi Final - Chandigarh

As soon as the semi final are over the two winning teams will have to become ready for the final which is scheduled as below.

ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 Final Match

Date - Match - Venue

02nd Apr - Final match between the
two semi final Winner. - Mumbai



So these was the schedule of the Cricket World Cup 2011 prepared by me as above. Hope you will like the schedule