Lanka to host three additional WC matches

MUMBAI, (AFP) - India will organise a major part of cricket’s World Cup in 2011 after Pakistan were stripped of co-hosting rights, the International Cricket Council said on Tuesday.
The showpiece event awarded to South Asia was thrown into turmoil earlier this month after the ICC removed Pakistan as a host nation due to security concerns, following the attack on the Sri Lankan team in Lahore in March.

The ICC moved swifty to put the tournament back on track, giving India a majority of matches with Sri Lanka and Bangladesh retained as co-hosts.
“We are confident of organising a very successful World Cup,” ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat told reporters after a meeting of the tournament’s organising committee here.
“We have formed in the central organising committee a security team to be directed by BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) president Shashank Manohar,” said the South African.
“We recognise that it’s important we instil confidence in the security measures we have in place. We have no doubt that we will be able to put together security plans that would successfully help host the World Cup in 2011.”

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