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ICC Cricket World Cup 2011
Official Logo of the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup.
Dates	19 February – 2 April
Administrator(s)	International Cricket Council
Cricket format	One-Day International
Tournament format(s)	Round robin and Knockout
Host(s)	India  Sri Lanka  Bangladesh
Champions	TBD
Participants	14 (from 104 entrants)
Matches played	49 (to be played)
Official website	ICC World Cup Cricket 2011

The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup is the tenth Cricket World Cup and is being 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^[1] to compete. The World Cup will take place between February and early April 2011, with the first match played on 19 February 2011 with co-hosts India andBangladesh facing off at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur, Dhaka.^[2] The opening ceremony was held on 17 February 2011 at Bangabandhu National Stadium,Dhaka, two days before the start of the tournament,^[3] with the final on 2 April 2011 atWankhede Stadium, Mumbai.

The World Cup was also supposed to be co-hosted by Pakistan, but in the wake of the2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team in Lahore, the International Cricket Council (ICC) decided to strip Pakistan of its hosting rights.^[4] The headquarters of the organising committee were originally situated in Lahore, but have now been shifted to Mumbai.^[5] Pakistan was supposed to hold 14 matches, including one semi-final.^[6]Eight of Pakistan's matches were awarded to India, four to Sri Lanka and two to Bangladesh.
Theme song

Hindi/Punjabi Song: De Ghuma Ke

Album: ICC World Cup Cricket 2011 Official Theme Song
Singer(s): Shankar Mahadevan
Music Director: Shankar, Ehsaan, Loy
Lyricist: Manoj Yadav

Symbol: The mascot, an elephant, has been named ‘Stumpy’ after an online selection process that drew proposals from thousands of cricket fans around the world.
FIxture: