ICC World Cup, 2011 opens with grand ceremony at Dhaka
The ICC World Cup, 2011 opened with a grand ceremony at the Bangabandhu stadium in Dhaka in front of a packed audience that was enthralled by some incredible dance numbers, music and fireworks.
The dazzling ceremony showcased the love of the game in the Subcontinent, a market that is the most lucrative for any ICC event. The two hour spectacle featured an aerial cricket match, while Indian singer Sonu Nigam, Bangladesh-based Runa Laila and Canadian
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A host of dignitaries from the host nations, the ICC and various cricket boards around the world, as well as the players and captains of the 14 participating teams graced the occasion with their presence.
The President of the ICC Sharad Pawar spoke on the occasion: “Tonight we welcome the captains of the world’s top 14 teams to the opening ceremony of the 10th ICC Cricket World Cup. One of these captains before us tonight will stand in the magnificent new
Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on 2 April and receive the ICC Cricket World Cup trophy. On behalf of the ICC, I wish you all the very best of luck”
Cricket’s mega tournament is the flagship event of the ICC and preparations are in place to make it a grand success. The six-week tournament is spread across cricket-crazy south Asia, with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747 co-hosting the matches.
The next 43 days will see some spellbinding action as teams fight each other on cricket’s biggest stage. The top eight teams from the group-match round would go through to the quarter-finals, with the winners of the two semi-finals contesting for the biggest
prize in the game on 2nd of April in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820.
The tournament is set to kick-off with an opening game between http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 in their warm-up games would be hoping to carry their momentum forward. Meanwhile, the Bangladeshi fans are hoping
that their team delivers a similar performance to the one in the last World Cup in which they sent the men in blue crashing out of the event in the first round.
The match would be staged at the Sher-e-Bangla stadium on Saturday 19 February, 2011 and a sell -out crowd is expected to watch the match.
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