The Cricket World Cup of 2023 started on the 5th of October and will continue until the 19th of November
You’ll likely already know that this specific type of World Cup is different from the Twenty20 format, as it has each inning lasting 50 overs. The last time this format happened was in 2019!
In this article, we offer an overview of this year’s Cricket World Cup to keep you up to date with everything that has happened so far and everything that’ll likely happen next.
The Teams
10 teams are playing in this year’s Cricket World Cup. All the member nations of the International Cricket Council are playing, apart from Ireland, Zimbabwe, and the West Indies. They have won the first two World Cups and also reached the final of the third one, never failing to qualify before. You can read more about it here to stay up-to-date with all the latest news in the world of cricket.
India qualifies as hosts, and the other qualified teams are Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, England, New Zealand, Pakistan, and South Africa. All these teams qualified through the ICC Cricket World Cup Super League, where the Netherlands and Sri Lanka secreted the final two places back in Zimbabwe this last summer, and the West Indies missed out on the qualifications for the first time in the history of the team.
The Tournament
It’s interesting to remember that this is the first men’s cricket World Cup hosted solely by India. The tournament is taking place in many different stadiums—ten, to be exact—in ten different cities across India. The first and second semi-finals will be held at the Wankhede Stadium in the city of Mumbai and Eden Gardens in Kolkata. The finals will take place at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
The ICC allocated a pool of US $10 million in prize money for the tournament. When the tournament began on October 5, England and New Zealand played against each other. New Zealand won by 0 wickets, and after that, Pakistan won against the Netherlands by 81 runs, Bangladesh won by 6 wickets against Afghanistan, and South Africa won by 102 runs against Sri Lanka.
Additionally, India won against India by 6 wickets, and New Zealand beat the Netherlands by 99 runs. England won against Bangladesh for 137 runs, Pakistan beat Sri Lanka by 6 wickets, and India won against Afghanistan by 8 wickets. And this all happened in the last stretch of the tournament!
People all over the world are following this tournament to find out who will win the next competition, which will continue on the 13th of October and go on until the 12th of November. For the know-out stage, the ICC has stated that they will be played at the Eden Gardens in Kolata if Pakistan qualifies for the semi-finals. If India qualifies, they will play at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai instead. We hope this article was a useful summary of everything that happened in the World Cup so far!