International Cricket Council has tried their best to shorten the 2011 world cup India will host 29 matches, Sri Lanka will host 12 matches and 8 games will be hosted by Bangladesh. So there will be 49 number of games will be played in 2011 as compared to 51 in 2007.


Previous ICC World Cup Winners:1975– West Indies (Captain– Clive Lloyd)
1979– West Indies (Captain– Clive Lloyd)
1983– India (Captain– Kapil Dev)
1987– Australia (Captain– Allan Border)
1992– Pakistan (Captain– Imran Khan)
1996– Sri Lanka (Captain– Arjuna Ranatunga)
1999– Australia (Captain– Steve Waugh)
2003– Australia (Captain– Ricky Ponting)
2007– Australia (Captain– Ricky Ponting)