Cricket is not just a game of bat or ball or wickets, there is much more to it. With an ongoing tournament, you get to experience thrill, a flow of emotions and action. And with the world cup going on, the heat is on the soaring ends. Basically, world cup cricket schedule tells about numerous venues that will host the one day match, be it between Australia and India, Pakistan and South Africa or Sri Lanka and West Indies.

The 10th ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 in the West Indies will be hosted by three beautiful South Asian Countries. Venues of ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 in India ,Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The opening ceremony and the opening match of this gala cricket tournament will be hosted by Dhaka, while the final match of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 will be played in Mumbai.



ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 will see 14 teams competing over a day period. The tournament is divided into four stages, with matches taking place across 8 participating countries, and will officially begin with an Opening Ceremony to be held in a newly built stadium in Dhaka.

The eight teams will be playing each other in a "round robin" format; however, the two teams advancing from their respective groups will not play each other again.

The organizers have hired two lighting consultants with impressive credentials to work alongside the local production team.

Though the organizers haven't revealed the names of the consultants they did say one of them has worked at the Olympic Games and the other worked at the American Super Bowl.

The ceremony is to be held at the Trelawny Stadium, which will also host four warm-up matches. All the players and officials of the 16 World Cup teams will attend the ceremony, for which a budget of US$ 2 million has been set aside and which will be televised across the world.


Around 1500 performers are expected to be part of the ceremony though most of them will be Jamaicans. "The budget is small so we cannot afford to bring in a lot of bodies, neither to prepare nor to perform," said Lewis.





The Opening Ceremony will be a world class ceremony attended by the players from all 14 participating nations and will be held at the brand new Trelawny Multi-Purpose Stadium in Jamaica. The night belonged to every one of the over 1 000 patrons at the closing ceremony as authorities get ready to demolish the ground to make way for a new 27 000-seat stadium for the 2011 Cricket World Cup.
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Closing ceremony will take place at Wankhede Stadium at Mumbai in India