Cricket World Cup Betting 2011

The 2011 Cricket World Cup will be the tenth Cricket World Cup and will be jointly hosted between India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The tournament will be played over a One Day International format with fourteen national teams involved.

The opening match will be played between India and Bangladesh at Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium in Dhaka on February 19 with the final scheduled to be played on May 19 at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.

Cricket World Cup Betting Odds 2011

Having won the Cricket World Cup 2007 in West Indies Australia go into this tournament as defending champions but with a very different side to the one that included the likes of Glenn McGrath, Adam Gilchrist and Matthew Hayden four years ago.

Instead it is India that go into the tournament as Cricket World Cup Betting 2011 favourites, closely followed by Sri Lanka, Australia, England and South Africa who can all be backed at similar odds. The erratic and unpredictable Pakistan are also available to back at single figure odds in the Cricket World Cup Betting 2011 whilst West Indies, New Zealand and Bangladesh are all double-figure prices.

Zimbabwe, Ireland, Holland, Kenya and Canada join the nine Test playing nations to complete the 14 participants in the Cricket World Cup Betting 2011.

Cricket World Cup 2011 Venues

Jointly-hosted by India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh this will be the first time that the latter have co-hosted a cricket World Cup. There are eight venues to be used in India, three to be used in Sri Lanka and two in Bangladesh.

The biggest stadium is the 82,000-seater Eden Gardens in Kolkata the smallest being a newly built 20,000 capacity stadium in Chittagong.

The group matches will be spread out across the 13 stadiums over the three countries then two of the quarter-finals will be played in Dhaka, one in Colombo and one in Ahmedabad, the semis will be in Colombo and Mohali and the final at Mumbai.

For a full list of fixtures see the official Cricket World Cup 2011 site here.

Cricket World Cup 2011 Betting Markets

Betting on the outright winners market will be popular in the lead up to the event where India are the Cricket World Cup Betting 2011 favourites, as can be seen above. You can also get involved in Cricket World Cup Betting 2011 for who will win each group as well as who will be the top tournament run scorer, top tournament bowler, the number of centuries scored and many more outright markets.

There is also, of course, betting available on individual match markets from the winner of each match to each team’s top run scorer, top bowler, whether a century will be scored, who will win the man of the match award and a hole range of Cricket World Cup Betting 2011 markets.