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The ICC announced the World Cup schedule on 27 June 2023 at an event in Mumbai with a countdown of 100 days to the opening match of the World Cup on 5 October. The group stage started with the match between the finalists of the 2019 Cricket World Cup , New Zealand and England , at Narendra Modi Stadium . [ 7 ]
The host India was the first team to qualify for the semi-finals after their mammoth 302-run win against Sri Lanka, their seventh successive win in the World Cup. [2]South Africa became the second team to qualify for the semi-finals after Pakistan defeated New Zealand on 4 November; however, with that win, Pakistan kept their hope of the knockout stage alive.
The ICC Men's Cricket World Cup is the quadrennial international championship of One Day International cricket. [3] The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), every four years, with preliminary qualification rounds leading up to a finals tournament.
The 2023 Cricket World Cup was hosted exclusively by India with matches hosted across ten cities. [ 169 ] [ 170 ] [ 171 ] The round-robin format remained in use for the tournament, with each team playing all the other nine participating teams once and the top four teams then advancing to the semifinals.
Scoreboard from the 2023 Cricket World Cup group stage match between India and Pakistan. The 2023 Cricket World Cup group stage was played in a round-robin league format, with all ten teams playing each other once in a single group, resulting in a total of 45 matches being played. The top four teams from the group progressed to the knockout stage.
India are the second nation to host the world cup alone in the 2023 edition. The West Indies hosted the tournament in 2007 but are not considered as sole hosts because the West Indies represents a sporting confederation of 15 mainly English-speaking Caribbean countries, British dependencies and non-British dependencies.
The 2022 ICC Men's T20 World Cup, the 2022 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup, and the 2023 ICC Women's T20 World Cup, all took place during this time. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In the round-robin stage of 2022 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup, Thailand beat Pakistan by 4 wickets to register their first ever win in international cricket against the opponents. [ 6 ]
The 2023 Cricket World Cup Qualifier was played in Zimbabwe in June and July. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This calendar included men's Test , One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) matches, women's Test , women's One Day Internationals (WODIs) and women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is) matches, as well as some other significant series .