For the First Time in “The ICIC -World Cup Cricket -Three Asian Countries play in the ‘Semi Finals’

• The following 3 Asian Countries are jointly hosting ‘The 10th World Cup Cricket Tournaments’-2011:-

• India
• Bangladesh and
• Srilanka

The ‘League Matches’ of the World cup Cricket have come to an end by 20th March 2011. At the end of the ‘League Matches’, the following 8 Teams got qualified for the ‘Quarter Finals’: From Group ‘A’:

• Australia (World Champion of 1999, 2003 & 2007).
• New Zealand,
• Pakistan and
• Srilanka &

From Group ‘B’:

• South Africa,
• West Indies,
• England and
• India.

At the end of the 4 Quarter Finals the following 4 teams have won and got qualified for the 2 ‘Semi-Finals’ : The First Semi-Finals will be:

• Between Srilanka &New Zealand,
• Played at Colombo-Srilanka
• On 29th March 2011 at 02 30 pm (IST) &

The Second Semi-Finals will be:

• Between India & Pakistan
• Played at Mohali- Chandigarh-Punjab-India
• On 30th March 2011 at 02 30 pm (IST).

It is notable that:-

• India became the World Champion in 1983,
• Pakistan became the World Champion in 1992 and
• Srilanka became the World Champion in 1996.
• And for the first time in the history of ‘World Cup-Cricket’ 3 the above 3 Asian countries are going to participate in the ‘Semi-Finals’ (along with New Zealand)
• New Zealand is going to play ‘Semi-Finals’ for the 7th time.

We may hope to see one of the above 3 Asian countries (India, Pakistan and Srilanka) to become the Cricket World Champion again.