ICC MEN’S ODI CRICKET WORLD CUP 2023 / SCHEDULE OF MATCHES
The ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup is the international championship of One Day International (ODI) cricket. It is organized by the the International Cricket Council (ICC), after every four years, with preliminary qualification rounds leading up to a finals tournament. The tournament is one of the world’s most viewed sporting events and is considered the “flagship event of the international cricket calendar” by the ICC.
BRIEF HISTORY OF ONE DAY INTERNATIONAL WORLD CUP
The first World Cup was organized in England in June 1975, with the first ODI cricket match having been played only four years earlier. However, a separate Women’s Cricket World Cup had been held two years before the first men’s tournament, and a tournament involving multiple international teams had been held as early as 1912, when a triangular tournament of Test matches was played between Australia, England and South Africa.
The current format involves a qualification phase, which takes place over the preceding three years, to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase. In the tournament phase, 10 teams, including the automatically qualifying host nation, compete for the title at venues within the host nation over about a month. In the 2027 edition, the format will be changed to accommodate an expanded 14-team final competition.
A total of twenty teams have competed in the twelve editions of the tournament, with ten teams competing in the recent 2019 tournament. Australia has won the tournament five times, India and West Indies twice each, while Pakistan, Sri Lanka and England have won it once each. The best performance by a non-full-member team came when Kenya made the semi-finals of the 2003 tournament.
England are the current champions after winning the 2019 World Cup edition. The next tournament will be held in India in 2023, and the subsequent 2027 World Cup will be held jointly in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia.
Here are some of the most notable facts about the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup:
- The tournament is the most-watched sporting event in the world, with an estimated 2.2 billion viewers in 2019.
- Australia is the most successful team in the tournament’s history, having won five titles.
- India and West Indies are the only other teams to have won the tournament more than once.
- The best performance by a non-full-member team came when Kenya made the semi-finals of the 2003 tournament.
- The next tournament will be held in India in 2023, and the subsequent 2027 World Cup will be held jointly in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia.
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ICC MEN’S ODI WORLD CUP 2023 SCHEDULE
| October 5, 2023 | 13:30 | Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad | 14:00 | England vs New Zealand | [Match Centre] |
| October 6, 2023 | 13:30 | Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad | 14:00 | Pakistan vs Q1 | [Match Centre] |
| October 7, 2023 | 10:00 | Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala | 10:30 | Bangladesh vs Afghanistan | [Match Centre] |
| October 7, 2023 | 13:30 | Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi | 14:00 | South Africa vs Q2 | [Match Centre] |
| October 8, 2023 | 13:30 | MA Chidambaram, Chennai | 14:00 | India vs Australia | [Match Centre] |
| October 9, 2023 | 13:30 | Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad | 14:00 | New Zealand vs Q1 | [Match Centre] |
| October 10, 2023 | 13:30 | Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala | 14:00 | England vs Bangladesh | [Match Centre] |
| October 11, 2023 | 13:30 | Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi | 14:00 | India vs Afghanistan | [Match Centre] |
| October 12, 2023 | 13:30 | Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad | 14:00 | Pakistan vs Q2 | [Match Centre] |
| October 13, 2023 | 13:30 | Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpai Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow | 14:00 | Australia vs South Africa | [Match Centre] |
| October 14, 2023 | 10:00 | MA Chidambaram, Chennai | 10:30 | New Zealand vs Bangladesh | [Match Centre] |
| October 14, 2023 | 13:30 | Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi | 14:00 | England vs Afghanistan | [Match Centre] |
| October 15, 2023 | 13:30 | Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad | 14:00 | India vs Pakistan | [Match Centre] |
| October 16, 2023 | 13:30 | Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpai Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow | 14:00 | Australia vs Q2 | [Match Centre] |
| October 17, 2023 | 13:30 | Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala | 14:00 | South Africa vs Q1 | [Match Centre] |
| October 18, 2023 | 13:30 | MA Chidambaram, Chennai | 14:00 | New Zealand vs Afghanistan | [Match Centre] |
| October 19, 2023 | 13:30 | Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune | 14:00 | India vs Bangladesh | [Match Centre] |
| October 20, 2023 | 13:30 | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru | 14:00 | Australia vs Pakistan | [Match Centre] |
| October 21, 2023 | 10:00 | Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpai Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow | 10:30 | Q1 vs Q2 | [Match Centre] |
| October 21, 2023 | 13:30 | Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai | 14:00 | England vs South Africa | [Match Centre] |
| October 22, 2023 | 13:30 | Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala | 14:00 | India vs New Zealand | [Match Centre] |
| October 23, 2023 | 13:30 | MA Chidambaram, Chennai | 14:00 | Pakistan vs Afghanistan | [Match Centre] |
| October 24, 2023 | 13:30 | Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai | 14:00 | South Africa vs Bangladesh | [Match Centre] |
| October 25, 2023 | 13:30 | Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi | 14:00 | Australia vs Q1 | [Match Centre] |
| October 26 | 13:30 | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru | 14:00 THU 26 OCTOBER | England vs Q2 | [Match Centre] |
| October 27 | 13:30 | MA Chidambaram, Chennai | 14:00 FRI 27 OCTOBER | Pakistan vs South Africa | [Match Centre] |
| October 28 | 10:00 | Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala | 10:30 SAT 28 OCTOBER | Australia vs New Zealand | [Match Centre] |
| October 28 | 13:30 | Eden Gardens, Kolkata | 14:00 SAT 28 OCTOBER | Q1 vs Bangladesh | [Match Centre] |
| October 29 | 13:30 | Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpai Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow | 14:00 SUN 29 OCTOBER | India vs England | [Match Centre] |
| October 30 | 13:30 | Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune | 14:00 MON 30 OCTOBER | Afghanistan vs Q2 | [Match Centre] |
| October 31 | 13:30 | Eden Gardens, Kolkata | 14:00 TUE 31 OCTOBER | Pakistan vs Bangladesh | [Match Centre] |
| November 1 | 13:30 | Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune | 14:00 WED 01 NOVEMBER | New Zealand vs South Africa | [Match Centre] |
| November 2 | 13:30 | Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai | 14:00 THU 02 NOVEMBER | India vs Q2 | [Match Centre] |
| November 3 | 13:30 | Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpai Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow | 14:00 FRI 03 NOVEMBER | Q1 vs Afghanistan | [Match Centre] |
| November 4 | 10:00 | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru | 10:30 SAT 04 NOVEMBER | New Zealand vs Pakistan | [Match Centre] |
| November 4 | 13:30 | Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad | 14:00 SAT 04 NOVEMBER | England vs Australia | [Match Centre] |
| November 5 | 13:30 | Eden Gardens, Kolkata | 14:00 SUN 05 NOVEMBER | India vs South Africa | [Match Centre] |
| November 6 | 13:30 | Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi | 14:00 MON 06 NOVEMBER | Bangladesh vs Q2 | [Match Centre] |
| November 7 | 13:30 | Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai | 14:00 TUE 07 NOVEMBER | Australia vs Afghanistan | [Match Centre] |
| November 8 | 13:30 | Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune | 14:00 WED 08 NOVEMBER | England vs Q1 | [Match Centre] |
| November 9 | 13:30 | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru | 14:00 THU 09 NOVEMBER | New Zealand vs Q2 | [Match Centre] |
| November 10 | 13:30 | Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad | 14:00 FRI 10 NOVEMBER | South Africa vs Afghanistan | [Match Centre] |
| November 11 | 13:30 | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru | 14:00 SAT 11 NOVEMBER | India vs Q1 | [Match Centre] |
| November 12 | 10:00 | Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune | 10:30 SUN 12 NOVEMBER | Australia vs Bangladesh | [Match Centre] |
| November 12 | 13:30 | Eden Gardens, Kolkata | 14:00 SUN 12 NOVEMBER | England vs Pakistan | [Match Centre] |
| November 15 | 13:30 | Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai | 14:00 WED 15 NOVEMBER | 1st Place vs 4th Place | [Match Centre] |
| November 16 | 13:30 | Eden Gardens, Kolkata | 14:00 THU 16 NOVEMBER | 2nd Place vs 3rd Place | [Match Centre] |
| November 19 | 13:30 | Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad | 14:00 SUN 19 NOVEMBER | Winner of Semi-Final 1 vs Winner of Semi-Final 2 | [Match Centre] |
Grid
Aaqib Eyes ODI and Champions Trophy Triumph for Pakistan
AUS vs PAK: Australia Win Seven-Over Thriller Thanks to Maxwell
Afridi & Hasaranga Shine: Pakistan and Sri Lanka Bowlers Take ICC Rankings by Storm
SA vs India: Spin, Depth, and Strategy to Decide the Series
PCB Seeks Government Help as India Refuses to Travel for Champions Trophy
