ICC Cricket World Cup Venue Guide will be placed here. The ICC World Cup cricket 2011 will be played across 13 venues from the 19th of February to the 2nd of April. These 13 venues are divided into the three co-hosts, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
Pakistan was to host the World Cup as well, but security concerns in the country meant that the tournament was awarded only to India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. This also meant that each of the countries have more games to host.
8 of the games will be hosted by Bangladesh, 12 by Sri Lanka and the remaining 29 matches will see India as the host.
The 13 venues in question are Kolkata, New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Nagpur, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore (all from India), Hambantota, Colombo and Kandy (all from Sri Lanka) and Chittagong and Dhaka (Bangladesh).
The highest capacity of any venue is that of the Eden Gardens in Kolkata where 75k spectators can sit and watch the game, while the planned capacity of the revamped Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai is 45000. Feroz Shah Kotla is at 48000, Motera in Ahmedabad at 54k and Nagpur at 45k. The Wankhede in Mumbai will host four games, including the finals of the tournament.
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