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India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will co-host cricket’s [tag]World Cup[/tag] in 2011 after beating off opposition from a joint Australia-New Zealand bid.

At an International Cricket Council ([tag]ICC[/tag]) executive board meeting in [tag]Dubai[/tag] on Sunday, the Asian countries’ bid won the vote by 10 to three.

The hosting of the 2015 tournament has been awarded to Australia and New Zealand. In 2019 the event will be staged by England.

Australia and New Zealand co-hosted the 1992 World Cup and had been in line to stage the 2011 event after Asia (1996), England (1999), South Africa (2003) and the West Indies (2007) were each awarded the tournament.

The ICC said last year they were scrapping their rotational policy in favour of event-by-event bidding after the sub-continent countries said they should be awarded every third World Cup because of the money they generated for the game.

Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland said in a statement after Sunday’s vote: “It is disappointing to miss out on the 2011 World Cup. But I am pleased that the highly professional bid we made, which complied with a long list of strict criteria, and which was supported by governments, venues and others such as our member state cricket associations, has demonstrated to the ICC that Australasia will host a world-class tournament in 2015.”

Sunday’s decisions need to be ratified by the ICC’s annual conference in July.

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