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The
ICC Cricket World Cup will be
the tenth Cricket World Cup and will
be hosted by three South Asian Test
cricket playing countries: India,
Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. It will be
Bangladesh's first time co-hosting a
Cricket World Cup. The World Cup
will use cricket's One Day
International format, with fourteen
national cricket teams scheduled to
compete. The World Cup will take
place between February and early
April , with the first match to
be played on 19 February with
co-hosts India and Bangladesh facing
off at the Sher-e-Bangla National
Stadium in Mirpur, Dhaka. The
opening ceremony will be held on 17
February , two days before the
start of the tournament, with the
final on 2 April at Wankhede
Stadium, Mumbai.
The
World Cup was also supposed to be
co-hosted by Pakistan, but in the
wake of the 2009 attack on the Sri
Lanka national cricket team in
Lahore, the International Cricket
Council (ICC) decided to strip
Pakistan of its hosting rights. The
headquarters of the organising
committee were originally situated
in Lahore, but have now been shifted
to Mumbai. Pakistan was supposed to
hold 14 matches, including one
semi-final. Eight of Pakistan's
matches have been awarded to India,
four to Sri Lanka and two to
Bangladesh.
The
Opening Ceremony will be held in
Bangladesh. The venue for the
opening ceremony is Bangabandhu
National Stadium in Dhaka,
Bangladesh. The event will take
place on February 17, , 2 days
prior to the first match of the
World Cup. All the Indian stadiums
for the World Cup had been
finalized earlier, and the venues of
Bangladesh and Sri Lanka were
finalised in late October 2009. All
the venues of the Cricket World
Cup were announced on 2 November
2009 in Mumbai by the International
Cricket Council. Two new stadiums in
Sri Lanka are being constructed
exclusively for the World Cup.
They are located in Kandy and
Hambantota.
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