2015 Cricket World Cup

Infobox cricket tournament
name = 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup


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administrator = International Cricket Council
cricket format = One Day International
tournament format = Round robin and Knockout
host = Australia
New Zealand
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The 2015 Cricket World Cup will be the 11th time this tournament has been held, and will be jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand. The location of the games will be evenly split, with the location of the final yet to be decided.

The hosting rights were awarded at the same time as those of the 2011 Cricket World Cup, which New Zealand and Australia had originally bid to host, and the 2019 Cricket World Cup. 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. The International Cricket Council were sufficiently impressed with the trans-Tasman bid that it was decided to award the next world cup to them. [cite news|url=http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/245809.html|title=Boards 'disappointed' with 2011 World Cup snub|publisher=Cricinfo|date=30 April 2006] [cite news|url=http://content-nz.cricinfo.com/ci/content/current/story/245789.html|title=Asia to host 2011 World Cup|publisher=Cricinfo|date=30 April 2006]

The 2015 Cricket World Cup will be the 2nd time this tournament has been jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand, the first being the 1992 Cricket World Cup which was won by Pakistan, who defeated England in the final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Potential Venues

Qualification

At the present time, the ten full members of the International Cricket Council will automatically qualify. An unknown number of associate members will go through a qualification process for the remaining places. The ten full members are:

References