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2 billion viewers is a huge figure for any sporting event. BCCI is expecting that more than 2 billion people will watch World Cup Cricket 2011 by television. Today, Inderjit Singh Bindra of BCCI said, "Traffic will come to a stop in the four countries in 2011. There will be more than a billion (TV) viewers in the sub-continent, and another billion in the rest of the world." Yes, it is really possible that one billion (even more) people from South Asia will enjoy World Cup Cricket 2011. If you are skeptic about the other one billion then just think of the huge South Asian community living in USA and the Middle East. Inderjit Singh Bindra made the presentation for the Asian bloc in the ICC board meeting a few days ago. He said that cricket is almost a religion and South Asia and 2011 tournament would be the biggest and the best ever and it would take cricket to a new era. However, in Asia, football (soccer) is still the most popular game and World Cup Football still attracts many more viewers than World Cup Cricket. BCCI is hoping that this is going to gradually change with World Cup Cricket 2011. Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are going to jointly host World Cup Cricket 2011.
The upcoming cricket World Cup match tickets are set to pleasantly surprise fans as they feature from Caribbean marine life to tropical fauna to rhythm and dance - something that fans would like to retain as mementoes.The tickets, bought in the first two phases of the public ticketing programme, have started being despatched to buyers in over a hundred countries for the 16-nation tournament starting March 11.Tickets for warm-up and group stage matches are blue and sport the marine life sub-graphic while Super Eight, or quarter-finals, tickets feature a green design that depicts the tropical fauna of the region, said World Cup project officer (ticketing) Delroy Taylor.A bright yellow sub-graphic entitled 'rhythm and dance' has been used for semi-final tickets and the 'metallic silver' version of the same sub-graphic has been chosen for the prized tickets of the final to be played at Kensington Oval in Bridgetown April 28.'These tickets are the quality of those you'd get for an international sporting event such as the Olympics and I think fans who ordered in the first two phases are going to really enjoy these souvenir tickets,' he said.The organisers have also ensured potential fake tickets are detected successfully.'There are a number of security features on each ticket and, depending on what type of match ticket it is, it has a particular World Cup sub-graphic, which reflects an aspect of Caribbean life,' disclosed Taylor.Taylor said he is 'very excited' about these tickets which are printed on 'eye-catching souvenir stock, which some fans will definitely want to keep as a memento'.Thousands of ticket packages are now en route to households worldwide as fans from more than 100 countries prepare to descend on the Caribbean for the ninth edition of the World Cup.While fans in Jamaica have already received their tickets, customers in Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bangladesh, China, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago would get theirs through courier any day.Ticket shipments were sent out to Britain, which has most tickets purchasers, Anguilla, Barbados, Bermuda, Canada, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the Netherlands and the US Thursday.Tickets were also being shipped to all World Cup official ticket centres in the nine host venues Friday and should be ready for distribution by next Thursday. If they are available for collection earlier in the week, customers will be notified.'This is what a lot of fans have been waiting for - to get their tickets in hand. World Cup organisers have been inundated with queries about when they would be available, and we are pleased to announce that they are here,' said Taylor.Sixteen teams, including defending champions Australia and finalists Indig in the quadrennial showpiece event

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