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The International Cricket Council (ICC) Cricket World Cup opening ceremony will be held on 17 February 2011 in Bangladesh. The opening match, meanwhile, will take place in the same country on 19 February.

This was one of the recommendations made by The Central Organising Committee (COC) for the ICC Cricket World Cup (ICC CWC) 2011. They met in Mumbai on wednesday to continue preparations for the tournament.

The meeting, under the chairmanship of ICC VP Sharad Pawar, was attended by ICC CEO Haroon Lorgat and representatives of the three countries set to stage the event. These are Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka.

Pakistan, previously the tournament’s fourth host nation, was not present and will not attend any future meetings of the COC following the settlement made with the ICC last week whereby it was agreed that the Pakistan Cricket Board would be relieved of its obligations as a co-host.

The other recommendations made by COC include to approve the operational plan and the event budget; to fix the venue inspections in the three host nations for October/November; and to announce the full match schedule and list of venues in Mumbai on 9 November which is when its next meeting takes place.

The recommendations of the COC meeting will now be communicated to the ICC Finance Committee and ICC board for consideration.

Tournament director Professor Ratnakar Shetty says, “This was another productive meeting and we have continued to make real progress. We are operating at full steam ahead for what should be a great event in 2011 and there is a great spirit of cooperation among the hosts and the ICC.”

(Source: Indiantelevision.com)