All you need to know! ICC world cup 2023 recent updates, Venue, Selected teams and players, Match Tickets information, Match Schedule, ICC ODI ranking of teams 2023 . Get ready for World Cup 2023!
The schedule for the World Cup 2023 is disclosed by the International Cricket Council. It is going to be the 13th edition of the Cricket World Cup. ICC 2023 World Cup is going to be held in India so far the dates announced are from 5 October to 19 November. India is the hosting team so luckily it is directly qualified. There are 10 teams for the World Cup 2023 including the following. Pakistan India Afghanistan South Africa England New Zealand Bangladesh Australia Netherlands Sri Lanka
Almost 48 matches will be held in 10 different locations in India. This location includes Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Pune, Kolkata, Lucknow, Bengaluru and Dharamsala. Practice matches will be from 29 September to 3 October in Hyderabad, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram. This schedule was declared by the ICC on 27th June with respect to the locations and time.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Wednesday 6 September officially declared the arrival of additional tickets to address the increased demand of ICC World Cup 2023. Almost 400,000 extra tickets were made available after BCCI talked about hosting associations. From 8 September onwards the Cricket World Cup 2023 tickets for all matches are available on the official Cricket World Cup website.
A total number of 32 countries participated in the qualifying cycle of Cricket World Cup 2023 out of which 10 teams are selected for the World Cup 2023 going to be in India. The qualifying process is based on the ODI status, ranking, and ICC membership. 13 teams are featured in the Super League from which 8 teams including the team India where the match is going to be held are selected for the World Cup 2023 on the basis of the ranking in Super League Matches. After this initial stage, the remaining 2 teams are selected directly for the World Cup 2023 by playing in the Zimbabwe World Cup Qualifying matches. Ireland, Sri Lanka, Dubai, Oman, Netherlands, West Indies, Nepal, Zimbabwe, Scotland, United States all these teams were the part of final selection stage. In the end, luckily Netherlands and Sri Lanka qualified as the last two teams, however, Sri Lanka won in the final match.
The Latest update of the ODI ranking on 17 September 2023 is as under. Pakistan 27 matches, 3102 points, and 115 rating. India 41 matches, 4701 points, and 115 rating. Australia 28 matches, 3166 points, and 113 rating. South Africa 24 matches, 2551 points, and 106 rating. England 28 matches, 2942 points, and 105 rating. New Zealand 31 matches, 3110 points, and 100 rating. Bangladesh 33 matches, 3107 points, and 94 rating. Sri Lanka 38 matches, 3512 points, and 92 rating. Afghanistan 21 matches, 1687 points, and 80 rating. West Indies 38 matches, 2582 points, and 68 rating. Zimbabwe 30 matches, 1641 points, and 55 rating. Scotland 33 matches, 1662 points, and 50 rating. Ireland 24 matches, 1052 points, and 44 rating. Netherlands 28 matches, 1044 points, and 37 rating. Nepal 42 matches, 1446 points, and 34 rating. Namibia 28 matches, 813 points, and 29 rating. United States 31 matches, 808 points, and 26 rating. Oman 24 matches, 525 points, and 22 rating. UAE 41 matches, 617 points, and 15 rating.
All the team needs to finalize their 15 players before September 28, 2023, after this date any replacement requires ICC approval, so far the teams that have finalized the players are the following:
Rohit Sharma ( Captain), Shubman Gill, Shreyas Iyer, Ishan Kishan, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya (Vice Captain), Axar Patel, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Mohd. Siraj, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd.Shami, Kuldeep Yadav.
Jos Buttler (Captain), Gus Atkinson, Jonny Bairstow, Moeen Ali, Sam Curran, Liam Livingstone, Adil Rashid, Dawid Malan, Joe Root, Jason Roy, Recce Tropley, David Willey, Mark Wood, Chris Woakes, Ben Stokes.
Pat Cummins (Captain), Sean Abbott, Alex Caray, Ashton Agar, Nathan Ellis, Aaron Hardie, Cameron Green, Travis Head, Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, Tanveer Sangha, Adam, Marcus Stoinis.
Hashmatullah Shahidi (Captain), Ibrahim Zadran, Riaz Hassan, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Rahmat Shah, Mohammad Nabi, Najibullah Zadran, Ikram Alikhil, Rashid Khan, Azmatullah Omarzai, Noor Ahmad, Abdul Rahman, Mubjeeb Ur Rahman, Naveen ul Haq, Fazalhaq Farooqi.
Temba Bavuma (Captain), Quinton De Kock, Reeza Hendricks, Gerald Coetzee, Marco Jansen, Heinrich Klaasen, Sisanda Magala, Aiden Markam, Keshav Maharaj, David Miller, Anrich Nortje, Lungi Nigdi, Tabraiz Shamsi, Kagiso Rabada,Rassie van der Dussen.
Kane Willamson (Captain), Trent Boult, Devon Conway, Matt Henry, Mark Champamn, Lockie Fergurson, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Latham, Glenn Philips, Rachin Ravindra, Jimmy Nesham, Will Young, Mitch Santner, Tim Sodhi, Ish Sodhi.
Scott Edwards (Captain), Max O Dowd, Vikram Singh, Teja Nidamanuru, Bas de Leede, Paul Van Meekeren, Roelof van der Merwe, Shariz Ahmed, Colin Ackerman, Logan van Beek, Saqib zulfiqar, Aryan Dutt, Sybrand Engelbrecht, Ryan Kelin, Wesley Barresi.
Due to the Navratri festival on October 15, 2023, Pakistan and India match dates are changed because security arrangements will be difficult for India. ICCI and BCCI talked with PCB about rescheduling the match dates held in Ahmedabad between the two groups. So for now it is possible that the match ICC World Cup date between India and Pakistan can be on October 14 in the Ahmedabad Championship Stadium. The opening ceremony of the ICC World Match is also in Ahmedabad at the Narendra Modi Stadium where England and New Zealand will play on October 5, 2023. BCCI Secretary Jay Shah has declared that the final match of ICC World Cup 2023 Cricket will also held in Narendra Modi Stadium on November 19, 2023.