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               ICC Test Championship

20 Dec 2009

Team	Matches	Points	Rating
India	32	3957	124
South Africa	30	3672	122
Australia	35	4054	116
Sri Lanka	31	3574	115
England	39	4102	105
Pakistan	21	1744	83
New Zealand	29	2337	81
West Indies	29	2224	77
Bangladesh	19	255	13

 

            ICC ODI Championship

24 Dec 2009

Team	Matches	Points	Rating
Australia	39	5080	130
India	41	5046	123
South Africa	26	3085	119
New Zealand	25	2789	112
England	33	3606	109
Pakistan	28	3012	108
Sri Lanka	35	3686	105
West Indies	21	1589	76
Bangladesh	28	1548	55
Zimbabwe	32	823	26
Ireland	6	152	25
Kenya	14	28	2

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Pak players cleared for IPL 3

The Indian Home Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday has cleared visas for four of the five Pakistani players who were scheduled to be a part of the next season of the Indian Premier League.

The four players are Sohail Tanvir, Misbah-ul-Haq, Umar Gul, Kamran Akmal. Just two days ago, IPL commissioner and chairman Lalit Modi had said that these players would have to be left out of IPL 3 since they didn't have their paperwork in order despite two extensions to the deadline.

The Pakistan Cricket Board said at the time that all the visa papers had been sent to the Indian High Commissions in Islamabad and New Zealand where the Pakistan team is currently playing a series. They said that the delay was all from the Indian side. With the Indian MEA now clearing those visas, it's likely that the Pakistani cricketers will be allowed to play in March next year.

The Indian Premier League 3 will be played at various venues in the country in March-April.

Pakistani cricketers took part in the IPL's inaugural season in April-May 2008, but were denied permission by Islamabad to play in the second edition earlier this year due to growing political tensions with India.

The 2009 tournament was shifted to South Africa in April-May when the Indian government said it could not guarantee adequate security because the event clashed with general elections.

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2011 ICC Cricket World Cup

The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup will be the tenth Cricket World Cup, and will be hosted by three South Asian Test cricket playing countries; India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. It will be Bangladesh's first time co-hosting a Cricket World Cup. The World Cup will use cricket's One Day International format, with fourteen national cricket teams scheduled. to compete. The World Cup will take place during the months of February and March 2011, with the first match being played on 19 February 2011.
The World Cup was also to be co-hosted by Pakistan, but in the wake of the 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team in Lahore, the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab, the International Cricket Council (ICC) were forced to strip Pakistan of its hosting rights. The headquarters of the organising committee were originally situated in Lahore, but have now been shifted to Mumbai. Pakistan was supposed to hold 14 matches, including one semi-final. 8 of Pakistan's Matches have been awarded to India, 4 to Sri Lanka and 2 to Bangladesh.

Qualification

See also: ICC World Cricket League 2007-09, 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifier, and 2011 Cricket World Cup squads

As per ICC regulations, all 10 full members automatically qualify for the World Cup, including Zimbabwe who have given up their test playing status till the standard of their team improves.

Team	Mode of Qualification
Australia	ICC Full Member
Bangladesh	ICC Full Member
England	ICC Full Member
India	ICC Full Member
New Zealand	ICC Full Member
Pakistan	ICC Full Member
South Africa	ICC Full Member
Sri Lanka	ICC Full Member
West Indies	ICC Full Member
Zimbabwe	ICC Full Member

The ICC also organised a qualifying tournament in South Africa to determine which Associate teams would participate in 2011 event. Ireland who had been the best performing Associate nation since the last World Cup, won the tournament, beating Canada in the final. The Netherlands and Kenya also qualified by virtue of finishing third and fourth respectively.

Team	Mode of Qualification
/ Ireland	1st place in 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifier
Canada	2nd place in 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifier
Netherlands	3nd place in 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifier
Kenya	4th place in 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifier

Venues

Although all the Indian stadiums for the 2011 World Cup had been finalised ^[25] before but the venues of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka were finalised on 9 November, 2009. A detailed release about venues of the World Cup will be released later.

[edit] India

Kolkata

New Delhi

Ahmedabad

Chennai

Mohali

Nagpur

Bengaluru

Mumbai

Venues in India

Kolkata	New Delhi	Mumbai	Chennai
Eden Gardens Capacity: 95,000	Feroz Shah Kotla Capacity: 48,000	Wankhede Stadium Planned capacity: 45,000	M. A. Chidambaram Stadium Capacity: 50,000
Mohali	Nagpur	Ahmedabad	Bengaluru
PCA Stadium Capacity: 43,000	VCA Stadium Capacity: 45,000	Sardar Patel Stadium Capacity: 48,000	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium Capacity: 42,000

[edit] Sri Lanka

Colombo

Hambantota

Kandy

Venues in Sri Lanka

Colombo	Kandy	Hambantota
R. Premadasa Stadium Capacity: 37,000	Pallekele Cricket Stadium Capacity: 25,000	Hambantota Cricket Stadium Capacity: 25,000

[edit] Bangladesh

Chittagong

Dhaka

Venues in Bangladesh

Dhaka	Chittagong
Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium Capacity: 47,000	Chittagong Divisional Stadium Capacity: 26,000

Matches

See also: 2011 Cricket World Cup schedule

Group Stage

Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	T	L	NR	NRR	PCF
Australia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Canada	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kenya	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
New Zealand	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pakistan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sri Lanka	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Zimbabwe	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	T	L	NR	NRR	PCF
Bangladesh	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
England	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
India	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
/ Ireland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Netherlands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
South Africa	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
West Indies	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Quarter-finals

23 March, 2011	TBD	v	TBD	Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Dhaka Attendance:

24 March, 2011	TBD	v	TBD	R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Attendance:

25 March, 2011	TBD	v	TBD	Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Dhaka Attendance:

26 March, 2011	TBD	v	TBD	Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad Attendance:

[edit] Semi-finals

29 March 2011	TBD	v	TBD	R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Attendance:

30 March, 2011	TBD	v	TBD	Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali Attendance:

[edit] Final

2 April, 2011	TBD	v	TBD	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Attendance:

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