wankhede stadium mumbai
The 2011 Cricket World Cup final will be held at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai it has been announced today. The event is being co-hosted by India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
India’s cricket board have announced eight venues for the 29 matches that they will be hosting and have included Eden Gardens in Kolkata which will host four of the group games despite not being used for a one day international since 2007.
India have also named Mohali as one of the venues for the semi final games as well as hosting two group games. Sri Lanka who will host twelve games and Bangladesh eight, have yet to announce venues although the opening ceremony will take place in Dhaka in Bangladesh on February 18th.
Group stage venues: Ahmedabad (2 games), Bangalore (4), Chennai (4), Kolkata (4), Mohali (2), Mumbai (2), Nagpur (4), New Delhi (4), plus venues TBA in Bangladesh (6) and Sri Lanka (10)
Quarter-finals: Ahmedabad plus venue TBA in Bangladesh (2) and Sri Lanka
Semi-finals: Mohali plus venues TBA in Sri Lanka
Final: Mumbai
The full schedule for the tournament will be announced on November 9th in Mumbai.
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1 Twenty20 World Cup // Oct 15, 2009 at 6:00 am
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2 bhaskar // Oct 18, 2009 at 11:26 am
hi,
why Hyderabad stadium was left out even though its facilities are at par other stadiums ????