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 | 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup
The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup will be the tenth Cricket World Cup, and will be hosted by three South Asian Test cricrket playing countries; India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. It will be Bangladesh's first time co-hosting a Cricket World Cup. The World Cup will use cricket's One Day International format, with fourteen national cricket teams scheduled to compete. The World Cup will take place during the months of February and March 2011, with the first match being played on 19 February 2011. The World Cup was originally to have been hosted by Pakistan as well, but in the wake of the 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team in Lahore, the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab, the International Cricket Council (ICC) were forced to strip Pakistan of its hosting rights. The headquarters of the organizing committee were originally situated in Lahore, but have now been shifted to Mumbai. Pakistan was supposed to hold 14 matches, including one semi-final. |
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 | South Asian Games
South Asian Games (also known as SAF Games or SAG & formerly known as South Asian Federation Games) are a bi-annual multi-sport event held among the athletes from South Asia. The governing body of these games is South Asian Sports Council (SASC), formed in 1983. At present, SAG are joined by eight members namely Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka. |
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 | Bangabandhu International Gold Cup Football Tournament
The Bangabandhu International Gold Cup Football Tournament will be held in October or November. The names of the participating teams and the fixture yet to be finalised.
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 | Jago Bangladesh
Activate Bangladesh Foundation which is relentlessly working in the fields of development of Sports Tourism as well as institutional based Sports & Physical Fitness to build Bangladesh as a Healthy, Energetic & Active nation by removing “Inactivity” from the society. Our efforts are directed for motivating & creating awareness regarding importance of Sports Tourism, Good Health and Physical Fitness amongst the young generation of our country who are presently suffering from anxiety, obesity, imbalance nutrition, negative attitude towards sports/physical fitness etc. In this field, we have already conducted events like; Challenge of the Longest Beach ’07, Jago Bangladesh ’09 etc. to promote Cox’s Bazar Sea Beach as the longest, widest, natural & continuous sea beach in the world (119 km).
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Sports Tourism
