ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 Gives Hosts Chance to Play Quarterfinal at Home

The ICC is trying to do everything in its power to ensure the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 is a success even if it means having to withhold the order of the quarterfinals to ensure that the host countries will get an opportunity to play in front of home crowds should they qualify!

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India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh have an added advantage, some would say pressure, in going past the league stage because it will mean that the further they go in the tournament, they will get to enjoy the support of their local, partisan crowds.

The ICC has revealed its plan to keep the quarterfinals and semi finals an open affair with the order in which they will be played will be held back until it is decided which of the teams qualify for that stage of the tournament. So, if India qualifies, which they should, then the match involved India will be playing at a venue in India depending on the dates allocated to each of the venues.

Following the disaster that was the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 in the Caribbean, the ICC is doing everything it can do to make sure this time teams will play out to sold out stadiums, and not in venues where people will not see the purpose in supporting a foreign team when their own preferred team is playing elsewhere.

The problem for the ICC stems from the fact that the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 is not being held in one country alone but is being co hosted by India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Already the ICC has lot tremendous crowd support from Pakistan cricket fans who have missed out on the opportunity to see their home team in action.

The ICC is clearly intent that the irony of the situation is not lost on anyone, hence, they have left more suspense in the tournament that would normally be. For the passionate fans, it could not be anymore than they would have asked for.