2011 Cricket World Cup
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2011 One Day International cricket event in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
Key facts
- Dates
- 19 February – 2 April 2011
- Administrator
- International Cricket Council
- Cricket format
- One Day International
- Tournament format s
- Round-robin and Knockout
- Hosts
- India Sri Lanka Bangladesh
- Champions
- India (2nd title)
- Runners up
- Sri Lanka
- Participants
- 14 (from 104 entrants)
- Attendance
- 1,229,826 (25,098 per match)
- Player of the series
- Yuvraj Singh
- Most runs
- Tillakaratne Dilshan (500)
- Most wickets
- Shahid Afridi (21) Zaheer Khan (21)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- sports season
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Sport
- Cricket
- Image
- Wankhede ICC WCF.jpg
- Organizer
- International Cricket Council
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- Commons category
- Cricket World Cup 2011
- topic's main category
- Category:2011 Cricket World Cup
- Commons gallery
- 2011 Cricket World Cup
- sports season of league or competition
- Cricket World Cup
- point in time
- 2011-00-00
- edition number
- 10
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 49
- end time
- 2011-04-02
- number of participants
- 14
- final event
- 2011 Cricket World Cup Final
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Encyclopedic overview
The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup was the tenth Cricket World Cup. It was played in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, the latter hosting World Cup matches for the first time. India defeated Sri Lanka by six wickets in the final at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, thus becoming the first country to win the Cricket World Cup final on home soil. India's Yuvraj Singh was declared the player of the tournament. This was the first time in World Cup history that two Asian teams had contested the final. It was also the first time since the 1992 World Cup that the final did not feature Australia.
Fourteen national cricket teams took part in this tournament, including 10 full members and four associate members of the International Cricket Council (ICC). The opening ceremony was held on 17 February 2011 at National Stadium, Dhaka, and the tournament was played from 19 February to 2 April. The first match was played between India and Bangladesh at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur, Dhaka.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “2011 Cricket World Cup” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.