No match in Eden Garden

The ICC venue inspection team has suggested to withdraw all the matches scheduled at Eden Garden Kolkata, as the ground is not ready to host the world cup matches. This is another bad news for cricket fans in Kolkata after the saga of Gangully not picked up by any IPL team.

Eden garden is a very famous cricket ground and the second biggest in the world after Melbourne cricket stadium. The ground has witnessed very important matches which include the world cup finals of 1987. The semi finals of 1999 world cup between India and Sri Lanka which was called off as Srilanka was in a good position and the crowd set fire to the stands.

This news has disappointed the cricket fans in India and has brought bad reputation to the Indian cricket organizers.

When are we supposed to learn lessons? Common wealth was such a shame, stadiums not ready, bridges collapsing, lifts not working. Is this the way a great emerging Economy and the next world power supposed to be presented to the world?

Groups in World cup Cricket 2011

Cricket world cup 2011 which starts on Feb 19th 2011, is the biggest event of cricket for the year. There are a total of 14 nations playing for the prestigious trophy.

Indian Team who won the world cup back in 1983 would be looking to win the tournament. Indian team with this last few tournament's performance are a tough contender for the trophy. This probably would be the last world cup for the great batsmen Sachin Tendulkar and He would be very keen on making this a memorable one for the entire nation. Australians who are the defending champions would be looking to make their success count to five, although there recent form does not make them the favorites. West Indies who one the first two world cups are no more in good shape for pulling the world cup. Pakistan and Srilanka who have won once each are also the good teams and may give other teams a good fight for this trophy. England and South Africa who never have had the chance of lifting this trophy in past are both looking very good.

All in all this will be a great tournament and all the teams would give their best in this mega event of cricket.

There are two groups comprising of seven teams in each group.The categorization of teams in the group is as follows

Group A

Australia

Canada

Kenya

New Zealand

Pakistan

Sri Lanka

Zimbabwe

Group B

Bangladesh

England

India

Ireland

Netherlands

South Africa

West Indies

14 Teams in Cricket World cup 2011

The following is a list of 14 Teams that will be participating in Cricket World cup 2011.

S No	Teams in World cup 2011
1	Australia
2	Bangladesh
3	England
4	India
5	New Zealand
6	Pakistan
7	South Africa
8	Sri Lanka
9	West Indies
10	Zimbabwe
11	Ireland
12	Canada
13	Netherlands
14	Kenya.

Cricket World cup 2011 Indian Team to be declared on Monday

Most Probable 15 Members in Indian Team for World cup 2011, announced by K Srikant on Monday 2011.

S NO.	Name	In Team As
1	Mahendra Singh Dhoni	Captain/Wicket Keeper
2	Virender Sehwag	Batsman
3	Sachin Tendulkar	Batsman
4	Gautam Gambhir	Batsman
5	Virat Kohli	Batsman
6	Yuvraj Singh	Batsman
7	Suresh Raina	Batsman
8	Harbhajan Singh	Spinner
9	Zaheer Khan	Bowler
10	Munaf Patel	Bowler
11	Praveen Kumar	Bowler
12	Yusuf Pathan	All rounder
13	Piyush Chawla	Bowler
14	R Ashwin	Bowler
15	Ashish Nehra.	Bowler

Rohit Sharma, Ishant Sharma, Irfaan Pathan misses out.

Cricket world cup 2011 schedule

The following is the schedule of cricket world cup 2011.

Date	Cricket Teams	Venue
19 Feb	India vs Bangladesh	Dhaka
20 Feb	New Zealand vs Kenya	Chennai
20 Feb	Sri Lanka vs Canada	Hambantota
21 Feb	Australia vs Zimbabwe	Ahmedabad
22 Feb	England vs Netherlands	Nagpur
23 Feb	Pakistan vs Kenya	Hambantota
24 Feb	South Africa vs West Indies	New Delhi
25 Feb	Australia vs New Zealand	Nagpur
25 Feb	Bangladesh vs Ireland	Dhaka
26 Feb	Sri Lanka vs Pakistan	Colombo
27 Feb	India vs England	Kolkata
28 Feb	West Indies vs Netherlands	New Delhi
28 Feb	Zimbabwe vs Canada	Nagpur
1 Mar	Sri Lanka vs Kenya	Colombo
2 Mar	England vs Ireland	Bangalore
3 Mar	South Africa vs Netherlands	Mohali
3 Mar	Pakistan vs Canada	Colombo
4 Mar	New Zealand vs Zimbabwe	Ahmedabad
4 Mar	Bangladesh vs West Indies	Dhaka
5 Mar	Sri Lanka vs Australia	Colombo
6 Mar	India vs Ireland	Bangalore
6 Mar	England vs South Africa	Chennai
7 Mar	Kenya vs Canada	New Delhi
8 Mar	Pakistan vs New Zealand	Pallekelle
9 Mar	India vs Netherlands	New Delhi
10 Mar	Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe	Pallekelle
11 Mar	West Indies vs Ireland	Mohali
11 Mar	Bangladesh vs England	Chittagong
12 Mar	India vs South Africa	Nagpur
13 Mar	New Zealand vs Canada	Mumbai
13 Mar	Australia vs Kenya	Bangalore
14 Mar	Pakistan vs Zimbabwe	Pallekelle
14 Mar	Bangladesh vs Netherlands	Chittagong
15 Mar	South Africa vs Ireland	Kolkata
16 Mar	Australia vs Canada	Bangalore
17 Mar	England vs West Indies	Chennai
18 Mar	Sri Lanka vs New Zealand	Mumbai
18 Mar	Ireland vs Netherlands	Kolkata
19 Mar	Australia vs Pakistan	Colombo
19 Mar	Bangladesh vs South Africa	Dhaka
20 Mar	Zimbabwe vs Kenya	Kolkata
20 Mar	India vs West Indies	Chennai
23 Mar	First Quarterfinal	Dhaka
24 Mar	Second Quarterfinal	Colombo
25 Mar	Third Quarterfinal	Dhaka
26 Mar	Fourth Quarterfinal	Ahmedabad
29 Mar	First Semifinal	Colombo
30 Mar	Second Semifinal	Mohali
02 Apr	FINAL	Mumbai