- Forty-nine matches will be played in 44 days in the Cricket World Cup 2015.
- A total of 14 teams are participating in the World Cup 2015.
- Teams are divided into two groups of seven each.
- Each team to play six pool matches before the top for advance into the knock-out stage.
- This is the 11th edition Cricket World Cup.
- The first edition of the World Cup was held at Lord's in 1975.
- Australia is the only country that has won the world cup four times.
- India and West Indies have done it twice.
- There are 14 venues where world cup matches will be played.
- Australia and New Zealand are co-hosing the 11th Cricket World Cup.
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- Australia will be staging 26 games.
- Cricket Stadiums in Australia are in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney.
- New Zealand will host 23 games in seven cities.
- Christchurch where international cricket is set to return for the first time since the 6.3-magnitude quake which killed 185 people in 2011.
- The top four sides from each pool will go through to the knockout stage.
- India is the defending champion.
- All India's group stage matches are day-night affairs.
- India open their campaign against arch rivals Pakistan.
- India plays Pakistan at game no. four of the tournament at the Adelaide Oval on Sunday, February 15.
- India have never lost to Pakistan in the World Cup.
- India's 2nd world cup match is against South Africa on Feb 22.
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