Tournament Guide:

The whole show will be up for entertainment at four locations to start with.

The warmup matches were played at :

Kingstown, St Vincent

St Augustine, Trinidad

Bridgetown, Barbados

Trelawny, Jamaica

More on wamup matches on a separate post...

The first round will be played in four locations, one for each group. There will be 6 games for each group as the group members play against each other.

Basseterre, St Kitts

Port of Spain, Trinidad

Gros Islet, St Lucia

Kingston, Jamaica.

The gods from supernatural cricketing countries will play with poor and emerging babyrickters. The outcome of nearly 16 out of 24 games at this stage can be predicted so easily by anyone who knows the game of cricket. The remaining 8 games is too tough to call at this time. Four of them will be between gods playing against each other and remaining four of them will be between minnows and these games will be so unnoticed, they even need not have to play them!

This leaves only four games to be noticed, talked about, gossipped, and whatever by everyone. These are the games between better cricket teams, and for someone who is very busy at work, here is a little guide:

First of such a match will be on opening day (13 mar)! West Indies will play Pakistan. And you have to wait three three three days for the next one (16 mar): England playing New Zealand. After really agonizing sevendays, you will see the next important match (23 mar): India playing Sri Lanka. After a couple of days (24 mar) Australia will play South Africa. Even after this match, for some crazy reason, two more first round matches will be played for someone's entertainment!

There will be plenty of time to eat and wash and sleep during this phase of the tournament. Like a mind blowing calm before the heavy storm!

More on first round matches on a separate post...

Super eight matches will be played at :

The first 12 super eight matches will be at St Peter's, Antigua and Providence, Guyana.

Remaining 12 matches at Grenada and Kensington Oval, Barbados

Super eight matches will be between quality cricket playing teams for sure. Other eight teams would be relieved by the fact that they need not have to be humiliated anymore, laughed at or even felt sorry about the number of runs scored or number of wickets taken or exercises during fielding to reduce...... whatever.

Semi finals will be played at Sabina Park, Jamaica and St. Lucia on 24th and 25th April.

There are several predictions on who will be in the semi finals. I suspect australia and south africa be definetely in. The other two teams can be anybody's guess.

And Final match will be at Kensington Oval, Barbados on 28th.