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Wankhede Stadium - ICC Cricket World Cup Venue

wankhede cricket stadium icc cricket world cup match venue 2011
Wankhede Stadium under lights
Born after the dispute between Cricket Club of India and Mumbai Cricket Association on allocation of ticket for cricket matches.   Then politician S K Wankhede took initiation and start looking for a new cricket venue finally within the six month of finalizing the location it was built.

During West Indies tour to Indian in 1975 final test match was played in this very ground which is the first ever cricket match hosted by  Wankhede stadium, then had Total capacity of around 45000 cricket fans

IF you are a follower of cricket then you must be knowing the pitch of Wankhede stadium which favors the spinners and fast bowlers equally and has witnessed many memorable moments of international as well as national cricket matches, few of those moments were:
ravi shastri hit 6 sixes in a over at wankhede stadium
Ravi Shastri hitting Six off Tilak Raj
  1. Sunil Gavaskar's 205 against West Indies during 1978-79 tour.
  2. Vinod Kambli's 224 against England in 1992-93
  3. Ravi Shastri's Six sixes in an over off Baroda's Tilak Raj, the same inning was the fastest double hundred in first class cricket at that time.

It has privilege to host matches of 2 previous world cups in 1987 when two matches were played here between, India vs Zimbabwe and India vs England, and one match during 1996 world cup between Australia vs India were played.

As per the schedule of 2011 cricket world cup, Wankhede Stadium will host three cricket matches including final.  Here is the list of all the matches with dates
  1. 30th Match, Group A - Canada v New Zealand, 13 March 2011    
  2. 37th Match, Group A - New Zealand v Sri Lanka, 18 Match 2011
  3. Final of ICC Cricket world cup 2011, 2 April 2011
If  you want to catch your favorite team in action during cricket world cup 2011 you can buy cricket ticket online.  Please do check the schedule of ICC cricket matches 2011 and schedule of 2011 world cup warm up matches.

Amazing prize money of cricket world cup 2011 is what making it wannabe by all teams so do check the live cricket score of 2011 world cup (only available on during world cup matches).