The 2015 Cricket World Cup will be the 11th Cricket World
Cup, scheduled to be jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand from 14
February to 29 March 2015. 49 matches will be played in 14 venues with
Australia staging 26 games at grounds in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart,
Melbourne, Perth and Sydney while New Zealand hosts 23 games in Auckland,
Christchurch, Dunedin, Hamilton, Napier, Nelson and Wellington.The final match
of the tournament will take place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. It will be
one of the world's largest international sports tournaments, with 14 competing
teams and more than 400 accredited players and officials taking part in it.
The hosting rights were awarded at the same time as those of
the 2011 Cricket World Cup, which Australia and New Zealand had originally bid
to host, and the 2019 Cricket World Cup, which was awarded to England. The 2011
tournament was awarded to the four Asian Test cricket playing countries, India,
Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, in a 10 to 3 vote (Pakistan later lost the
co-hosting rights due to a terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team). The
International Cricket Council were sufficiently impressed with the trans-Tasman
bid that it was decided to award the next World Cup to Australia and New
Zealand. This is the second time that the tournament will be held in Australia
and New Zealand, with the first being the 1992 Cricket World Cup. Sachin Tendulkar
has been named as the 2015 Cricket World Cup Ambassador by the ICC for the
second time, after 2011 Cricket World Cup where he was the ambassador.
India are the defending champions, having won the tournament
in 2011 when it was held in the Indian subcontinent, defeating Sri Lanka in the
finals by 6 wickets. Tickets for the Pool B match between India and Pakistan
scheduled on 15 February 2015, were reportedly sold out within 12 minutes.
What Do You Think India Will Win World Cup 2015 without Sachin ???
Bharat Ratna Sachin Tendulkar is a former Indian cricketer
widely acknowledged as the greatest cricketer of all time.
Tendulkar was a part of the Indian team that won the 2011
World Cup, his first win in six World Cup appearances for India. He had
previously been named "Player of the Tournament" at the 2003 edition
of the tournament, held in South Africa. In 2013, he was the only Indian
cricketer included in an all-time Test World XI named to mark the 150th
anniversary of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.
