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The 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup schedule was released by the governing body a few months ago as ten of the best ODI teams go head to head in October and November 2023 to fight for the ultimate cricketing crown.
England will kick-start the 13th edition of fifty-overs World Cup as the defending champions after having eked out a narrow win over New Zealand in the final of the previous tournament.
And it would be these two teams, England and New Zealand who will also kick-start this year’s World Cup with the first game of the tournament on October 5 at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
Hosts India will begin their campaign three days later at Chennai when they take on Australia with Pakistan playing Netherlands, Bangladesh battling Afghanistan and South Africa facing Sri Lanka in their respective opening matches.
In all, 45 group stage matches and three knock-outs totalling a sum of 48 matches will be played in this tournament.
Most matches this World Cup will begin at 2 pm (8:30 AM GMT) local time and be played as day-nighters but there will be six day games too that will start at 10.30 am (5:00 AM GMT). These will also be the six days on which there will be double-headers played.
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2023 Cricket World Cup schedule, venues & timing (all times in GMT)
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There will be a total of 48 games played at the 2023 World Cup – 45 of which will be played in group stages, after which we will go straight to semi-finals and, ultimately, the final match.
World Cup group stages schedule
- October 5: England vs New Zealand at Ahmedabad @ 8:30 AM
- October 6: Pakistan vs Netherlands at Hyderabad @ 8:30 AM
- October 7: Bangladesh vs Afghanistan at Dharamsala @ 5 AM
- October 7: South Africa vs Sri Lanka at Delhi @ 8:30 AM
- October 8: India vs Australia at Chennai @ 8:30 AM
- October 9: New Zealand vs Netherlands at Hyderabad @ 8:30 AM
- October 10: England vs Bangladesh at Dharamsala @ 5 AM
- October 10: Pakistan vs Sri Lanka at Hyderabad @ 8:30 AM
- October 11: India vs Afghanistan at Delhi @ 8:30 AM
- October 12: Pakistan vs Sri Lanka at Hyderabad @ 8:30 AM
- October 12: Australia vs South Africa at Lucknow @ 8:30 AM
- October 13: New Zealand vs Bangladesh at Chennai @ 8:30 AM
- October 14: India vs Pakistan at Ahmedabad @ 8:30 AM
- October 15: England vs Afghanistan at Delhi @ 8:30 AM
- October 16: Australia vs Sri Lanka at Lucknow 8:30 AM
- October 17: South Africa vs Netherlands at Dharamsala @ 8:30 AM
- October 18: New Zealand vs Afghanistan at Chennai @ 8:30 AM
- October 19: India vs Bangladesh at Pune @ 8:30 AM
- October 20: Australia vs Pakistan at Bengaluru @ 8:30 AM
- October 21: England vs South Africa at Mumbai @ 5 AM
- October 21: Sri Lanka v Netherlands at Lucknow @ 8:30 AM
- October 22: India vs New Zealand at Dharamsala @ 8:30 AM
- October 23: Pakistan vs Afghanistan at Chennai @ 8:30 AM
- October 24: South Africa vs Bangladesh at Mumbai @ 8:30 AM
- October 25: Australia vs Netherlands at Delhi @ 8:30 AM
- October 26: England vs Sri Lanka at Bengaluru @ 8:30 AM
- October 27: Pakistan vs South Africa at Chennai @ 8:30 AM
- October 28: Netherlands vs Bangladesh at Kolkata @ 5 AM
- October 28: Australia vs New Zealand at Dharamsala @ 8:30 AM
- October 29: India vs England at Lucknow @ 8:30 AM
- October 30: Afghanistan vs Sri Lanka at Pune @ 8:30 AM
- October 31: Pakistan vs Bangladesh at Kolkata @ 8:30 AM
- November 1: New Zealand vs South Africa at Pune @ 8:30 AM
- November 2: India vs Sri Lanka at Mumbai @ 8:30 AM
- November 3: Netherlands vs Afghanistan at Lucknow @ 8:30 AM
- November 4: England vs Australia at Ahmedabad @ 5 AM
- November 4: New Zealand vs Pakistan at Bengaluru @ 8:30 AM
- November 5: India vs South Africa at Kolkata @ 8:30 AM
- November 6: Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka at Delhi @ 8:30 AM
- November 7: Australia vs Afghanistan at Mumbai @ 8:30 AM
- November 8: England vs Netherlands at Pune @ 8:30 AM
- November 9: New Zealand vs Sri Lanka at Bengaluru @ 8:30 AM
- November 10: South Africa vs Afghanistan at Ahmedabad @ 8:30 AM
- November 11: India vs Netherlands at Bengaluru @ 2:00 PM
- November 11: Australia vs Bangladesh at Pune @ 5 AM
- November 12: England vs Pakistan at Kolkata @ 8:30 AM
- November 12: India v Netherlands at Bengaluru @ 8:30 AM
World Cup knockout stages schedule
- November 15: Semifinal 1 at Mumbai @ 2:00 PM
- November 16: Semifinal 2 at Kolkata @ 2:00 PM
- November 19: Final at Ahmedabad @ 2:00 PM
2023 World Cup warmup match schedule
10 pre-tournament warm-up matches will also be played between September 29 and October 3, with each of the 10 teams featuring in two matches. These matches will be hosted in Guwahati, Thiruvananthapuram and Hyderabad.
Here’s the World Cup 2023 warmup schedule:
- September 29: Sri Lanka v Bangladesh at Guwahati @ 2:00 PM
- September 29: South Africa v Afghanistan at Thiruvananthapuram @ 2:00 PM
- September 29: Pakistan v New Zealand at Hyderabad @ 2:00 PM
- September 30: India v England at Guwahati @ 2:00 PM
- September 30: Australia v Netherlands at Thiruvananthapuram @ 2:00 PM
- October 2: England v Bangladesh at Guwahati @ 2:00 PM
- October 2: New Zealand v South Africa at Thiruvananthapuram @ 2:00 PM
- October 3: Afghanistan v Sri Lanka at Guwahati @ 2:00 PM
- October 3: India v Netherlands at Thiruvananthapuram @ 2:00 PM
- October 3: Australia v Pakistan at Hyderabad @ 2:00 PM
World Cup 2023 venues
There will be 10 venues used for the 2023 Cricket World Cup. These include Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi, BRSABVE Cricket Stadium in Lucknow, Eden Gardens in Kolkata, HPCA Stadium in Dharmasala, M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, MCA International Stadium in Pune, Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Rajiv Gandhi International in Hyderabad and Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
Ahmedabad will host the first match, the all-important India-Pakistan encounter and the final among the five it has been allocated.
The two semifinals will be held in Kolkata and Mumbai respectively, while the grand final will be held at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
What’s the 2023 ICC World Cup format?
A total of 10 teams will face off in a round-robin-cum-knockout format much like was the case in the last 50-overs World Cup.
Each team will play a total of nine matches during the group stage of the competition, taking on every other team in the tournament.
The top four sides at the end of the group stage will qualify for the semifinals which will be hosted on November 15 and 16. The winners of these semifinals will then face off to decide the world champion on November 19.
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