Mumbai, April 28: Since the terrorist strike on the Sri Lankan team in Lahore it has been all bad news for Pakistan. On Tuesday, the misery continued with India being awarded a major chunk of its 2011 World Cup matches, effectively ruling out the Pakistan Cricket Board’s proposal of hosting its allotted games in Dubai.

The 14 matches originally scheduled to take place in Pakistan have been redistributed with eight going to India, four to Sri Lanka and two to Bangladesh. The quarterfinals will be shared among the three neighbours, with Bangladesh hosting two.

In all, India will hold 29 of the 49 World Cup matches across eight venues, Sri Lanka will host 12 in three venues while Bangladesh will stage eight at two grounds as well as the opening ceremony on February 18, 2011 with the opening match the following day.

The decision was taken at the tournament’s organising committee meeting in Mumbai which was attended by board representatives of Sri Lanka Cricket, the Indian cricket control board and their Bangladesh counterparts.

Pakistan stands to lose an estimated $10 million from the World Cup blow. Reports also suggest that it could boycott the mega-event in protest. However, the International Cricket Council is not worried. "We will cross the bridge when we come to it," ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat told reporters here.

The committee also decided to shift the tournament secretariat from Lahore to Mumbai. The BCCI’s chief administrative officer Prof. Ratnakar Shetty was appointed the event’s managing director in place of Pakistan’s Salman Butt.

A security directorate has also been formed under the chairmanship of BCCI president Shashank Manohar. It will include representatives of all three hosts and the ICC in a pro-active attempt to manage the issue both before and during the tournament.

A venue inspection sub-committee was formed under the leadership of BCCI secretary N. Srinivasan.