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Bangladesh will host the inaugural match and two quarterfinals of the 2011 cricket World Cup, the tournament's organising committee decided in Mumbai today.
Bangladesh will also stage eight matches at two grounds as well as the opening ceremony on February 18, 2011 while India will host 29 of the 49 matches across eight venues, Sri Lanka will host 12 in three venues.
Moreover, the committee decided to shift the tournament secretariat from Lahore to Mumbai. BCCI's chief administrative officer Ratnakar Shetty was appointed the event's managing director in place of Pakistani banker Salman Butt.
The organising committee, headed by ICC Vice-President Sharad Pawar, will include an operations and planning group comprising Bangladesh official Mahboob Alam, Indian board secretary N Srinivasan, Sri Lanka's Duleep Mendis and Shetty.
The ICC had to decide on the redistribution of Pakistan's 14 matches after it removed the country from the list of hosts because the "uncertain political situation" would have made it difficult to "deliver a safe, secure and successful event" in Pakistan.
The subcontinent last hosted a World Cup in 1996, when India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka shared the tournament.
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