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| Dates | 5 October–19 November 2023 |
|---|---|
| Administrator(s) | International Cricket Council |
| Cricket format | One Day International (ODI) |
| Tournament format(s) | Round-robin and knockout |
| Host(s) | India |
| Participants | 10 |
| Matches played | 48 |
| Official website | cricketworldcup.com |
The 2023 ICC Men's Cricket World Cup is the 13th edition of the Cricket World Cup, a quadrennial One Day International (ODI) cricket tournament contested by men's national teams and organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). The tournament is being hosted by India, it started on 5 October and is scheduled to conclude on 19 November 2023. England are the defending champions, having won the 2019 edition by defeating New Zealand in the final at Lord's, London.
Background
Covid-19 impact
Originally, the competition was to be played from 9 February to 26 March 2023.[1][2] In July 2020 it was announced that that the tournament would be moved to October and November as a result of the qualification schedule being disrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3][4] The ICC released the tournament schedule on 27 June 2023.[5][6]
The Qualifiers Tournament
The Full members participated in the 2020–2023 ICC Cricket World Cup Super League which selected the seven highest-ranked full ICC members along with hosts India to qualify for the World Cup. The remaining full members along with assosciate teams participated in the 2023 Cricket World Cup Qualifier from which Sri Lanka and Netherlands secured berths to play the main tournament. As a result, West Indies, the winner of the inaugral two world cups, did not qualify for the World Cup for the first time since the tournament's inception in 1975. Afghanistan qualified for the main tournament automatically for the first time, having participated since 2015 via qualifying tournaments.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Ded | Pts | NRR |
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| Means of qualification | Date | Venue | Berths | Qualified |
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| Host nation | — | — | 1 |  India
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| ICC Super League | 30 July 2020 – 14 May 2023 | Various | 7 | |
| Qualifier | 18 June – 9 July 2023 | Zimbabwe | 2 | |
| Total | 10 | |||
Pakistan's threat to boycott
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) had threatened to boycott the competition after the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) refused to send a team to the 2023 Asia Cup scheduled in Pakistan.[9][10] This issue was resolved in June 2023 after the Asian Cricket Council announced that the competition would be hosted using a hybrid model proposed by the PCB, with nine of the 13 matches in the competition played in Sri Lanka.[11][12]
2025 ICC Champions Trophy
It was announced in 2021 that the top seven teams (along with Pakistan as hosts) of the world cup will qualify for the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy hosted in Pakistan.[citation needed]
Teamwise backgrounds
Afghanistan
Since the last World Cup, Afghanistan gained direct qualification to this World Cup, for the first time. Afghanistan participated in the 2022 Asia Cup where they were eliminated in the super fours round.[citation needed] They had lost the Test and T20 series against Bangladesh, however won the ODI series 2-1.[13] They lost 0-3 to Pakistan in an ODI series.[14] 2023 Asia Cup where they lost matches to both Sri Lanka and Bangladesh to be eliminated in the group stage.[citation needed] However, Afghanistan's second-string squad defeated Pakistan in the 2022 Asian Games to enter the final against India, which was inconclusive and due to lower seeding than India, had to settle for Silver.[15]
Their World Cup warm up match against South Africa ended inconclusive while they won their match against Sri Lanka.
Australia
Since the last World Cup, Australia had lifted their first T20 World Cup in 2021 after defeating New Zealand in the final,[16] as well as the 2023 ICC World Test Championship final[17] where they defeated India. They defeated England to 4-0 win and retained the 2021-22 Ashes series comfortably.[citation needed] They were cruising to win the 2023 Ashes series after winning the first 2 matches but they lost the third match. The fourth match was drawn and England engineered a comeback to tie the series.[18] After the T20 series whitewash against South Africa, they began their ODI preparations ahead of the World Cup, with ODI series against South Africa and India, which did not end in their favour. Winning the first two matches with great margins, Australia collapsed for the latter part of the series facing enormous 100+ run losses against South Africa, with the Proteas scoring 416/5 in the fourth ODI match of the series. Australia finished the series with a 2-3 loss preceding the ODI tour of India, the T20 leg of which would be completed after the World Cup. Australia's poor form continued, with two more losses against India followed by a recovery by winning the last match to end in a 1-2 loss; however the five-time champions were still considered as the favourites by many experts.
Their World Cup warm up match against the Netherlands ended inconclusive while they won their match against Pakistan.
Bangladesh
Bangladesh had a mediocre record prior to the World Cup. They had won the test against the Afghans, but after a 1-2 ODI series loss against Aghanistan,[19] they had gone ahead and redeemed themselves by winning the 2 match T20 series by 2-0. There was a public spat between two prominent Bangladeshi cricketers - captain Shakib al Hasan and Tamim Iqbal. They moved to the 2023 Asia Cup, where they overcame a dismal start by beating Aghanistan to qualify for the super four round, where they lost matches against Pakistan and Sri Lanka to get eliminated but defeated India in a fighting victory. Captain Shakib Al Hasan regained his position to be the top-ranked all-rounder in both the ODI and T20 formats. They lost an ODI series 0-2 to New Zealand.[20] Meanwhile, Bangladesh's second string squad defeated Pakistan to win Bronze at the 2022 Asian Games.[21]
They won their World Cup warm up match against Sri Lanka but lost to England.
England
The defending champions had a great record prior to the World Cup and were considered as one of the favourites. They had since proved their mettle by also winning the 2022 T20 World Cup after defeating Pakistan to win their second title.[22] However, they had lost the 2021-22 Ashes series 0-4 to Australia. They had also bettered their highest team total world record after scoring 498/5 against Netherlands (also taking part in this world cup).[23] (The record was previously 481/6 vs Australia, 2018). Since then, the former World Cup winning captain, Eoin Morgan, had retired, leaving the side to Jos Buttler who had led Enland to their second T20 World title. The new English style of playing test cricket, bazball, was developed after Brendon McCullum (nicknamed Baz) was appointed coach and Ben Stokes as captain. They drew the 2023 Ashes series,[24] but it took great efforts. They had lost the first two tests to Australia, but the English rebuilt their series to win the third match. As the fourth ended in a draw, they won the last and final match to draw the series 2-2. However, Australia retained the Ashes, having won the previous edition. They drew the T20 series against New Zealand following the inflictation of a devastating ODI series 4-1 against the Kiwis.[25] With former World Cup winning all-rounder Ben Stokes reversing his ODI retirement to join the English in the World Cup, he set his personal best score against New Zealand.[26] A second string english squad inflicted yet another devastating 1-0 win against Ireland, with the first match abandoned, and the third match ending inconclusive after the English scored 280/4 in 31 overs and were on their path to break a few of their own Run-scoring records.
Their World Cup warm up match against India ended inconclusive while they won their match against Bangladesh.
India
Since the last world cup, India defeated Sri Lanka in January 2023 with the margin of 317 runs, a world record. They scored 390 while Sri Lanka were restricted to 73. They had also since lost two consecutive WTC Finals.[27][28] India would go on to lose to both Pakistan and Sri Lanka to get eliminated from the 2022 Asia Cup. Two of India's batters, Ishan Kishan and Shubman Gill had scored double centuries; 210 against Bangladesh and 208 against New Zealand respectively. As hosts, India were considered as favourites to win the World Cup and had an excellent record prior to the tournament. After losing their second consecutive World Test Championship final,[29] they had a successful tour in West Indies, winning the Test and ODI series following the 2-3 loss in the T20 series. From their, they moved to the Asia Cup where after a non-conlcusive match against Pakistan and a victory over Nepal moved to the super fours. In the super fours round, they defeated arch-rivals Pakistan with an enormous margin of 228 runs (the highest winning margin within the two sides) and set a target of 356/2, highest in an India vs Pakistan ODI. After a win against Sri Lanka and a dead-rubber defeat to Bangladesh, they defeated Sri Lanka easily in the final by restricting them to just 50 before quickly chasing it with 263 balls to spare and winning the Asia Cup.[30] They followed their Asia Cup triumph in the ODI series with Australia after winning the first 2 matches before following short of the required target in the third match. Meanwhile, their second string squad were equally successful in the 2022 Asian Games; they won the semi-final against Bangladesh to set up a final against Afganistan. Due to rain, the match ended in no-result and India won Gold due to higher seeding.[31]
Both their World Cup warm up matches against England and Netherlands ended inconclusive.
Netherlands
The Netherlands made their return to the tournament after 12 years. Being an assosciate member nation of the International Cricket Council, the Dutch had to be the finalists of the Qualifier tournament to enter the World Cup, which they did following the 0-2 series loss to South Africa. They had an astounding victory over the ICC full member West Indies in the 2023 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, where they chased a mammoth 374 in the highest-scoring tie in ODIs to set up a super over. Logan van Beek not only made 30 runs in the over, the highest ever super over score, but also took two wickets to win the match.[32][33] Bas de Leede scored 123 and took 5 wickets in the match against Scotland, becoming the fourth cricketer to make a century with a five wicket haul in ODI history.[34][35] Although they lost the final to Sri Lanka, them reaching the final meant that they qualified for the World Cup. They entered the tournament with the aim of reaching the semi-finals.[36][37] They toured India ahead of the tournament for preparations for practice, where they lost 0-3 to the domestic Karnataka team. In the first match against them, the Dutch batters collapsed to 8 down, just scoring 3 runs. The lower order carried the game forward, yet they still lost by 126 runs.
Both their World Cup warm up matches against India and Australia ended inconclusive.
New Zealand
Since the last World Cup, the two-consecutive-time World Cup runner ups had managed to end their 21-year ICC trophy drought by defeating India to win the 2021 ICC World Test Championship final,[38][39] becoming the inaugral winners of the ICC World Test Championship. They had also reached the final of the 2021 T20 World Cup which they lost to Australia.[40] However, the World Test Championship defending champions were unable to script similar results as the previous tournament, finishing in the 2021-23 ICC World Test Championship at 6th place. Ajaz Patel of New Zealand became the third bowler in International test cricket history to take ten wickets in an innings, achieving this record against India during a test match which was a part of the 2019-21 ICC World Test Championship. This was only the third ever instance and the first in the 21st century, in over two decades. Earlier in 2023 in the Indian Premier League, captain Kane Williamson had been injured, yet he would make his return in the tournament. However, they did not have a good record prior to the tournament. Their second string squad was unable to whitewash the T20 series against UAE and won it by 2-1.[41] They tied the 4-match T20 series against England and won the first ODI between them, followed by four resounding losses at the hands of the Englishmen.[42] They ended their preparations following a whitewash ODI series against Bangladesh.[43]
They won both their World Cup warm up matches against Pakistan and South Africa.
Pakistan
Since the last world cup, the ICC Champions Trophy defending champions had a good run in the two T20 World Cups. In the 2021 T20 World Cup, they had famously won against arch-rivals India by ten wickets, their first win against India in a world cup match; and would move on to the semi-finals, while India would remain stranded in the super-12s stage. Their run in the 2022 T20 World Cup would be even better, as they would reach the finals but lose to England.[44] They lost the 2022 Asia Cup final to Sri Lanka,[45] famously losing two consecutive matches to them (the former was a scheduled group stage match, the latter was the final they had both qualified for). They had a decent record prior to the World Cup; they whitewashed Sri Lanka to 2-0 in a Test series, they whitewashed Afganistan to 3-0 in an ODI series; the second match of which was tightly contested.[46] They then defeated Minnows Nepal by 238 runs in the Asia Cup, and restricted India to 268/10 in 48 overs, however the match was rendered inconclusive and they progressed to the super fours round. They won against Bangladesh following a record 228 run defeat against India, and a DLS loss to Sri Lanka to get eliminated. Their second string squad participating in the 2022 Asian Games were unable to win the Bronze Medal playoff against Bangladesh and had to settle for fourth place.[47] Pakistan will automatically qualify for the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy as hosts.
They lost both their World Cup warm up matches against Australia and New Zealand.
South Africa
The proteas had a decent ODI record prior to the World Cup. They won a 2 match ODI series 2-0 against the Netherlands, following a 0-3 loss in the T20 series against Australia. They also lost the first 2 matches of the five match series between the two sides, however they made a strong comeback in the latter half and inflicted devastating damage against the Australians. Batting first for the remainder of the tournament, they scored excess of 300 runs, even passing the 400 run mark in the 4th ODI; finishing at 416/5. This was followed by a clinical bowling performance by the Proteas, all resulting in 100+ run victories. This was the last time that South African Quinton de Kock was to play at home, as he would retire following the conclusion of the World Cup.
Their World Cup warm up match against Afghanistan ended inconclusive while they won their match against New Zealand.
Sri Lanka
Since the last world cup, Sri Lanka had to qualify its way towards ICC tournaments but they did so triumphantly. They reached the super 12's stage in both the 2021 and 2022 editions of the T20 World Cup. Wanidu Hasaranga of Sri Lanka was the highest wicket taker in these 2 consecutive T20 World Cups. Ahead of the 2022 T20 World Cup, they won the 2022 Asia Cup after overcoming a dismal start to remain unbeaten in the super fours and famously defeat Pakistan twice in a row (the former being a group stage match, the latter being the final they had both qualified for) to win the tournament.[48] They had to qualify for the World Cup via the 2023 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, which they won remaining unbeaten and defeating Netherlands in the final.[49] Following a 0-2 Test series loss to Pakistan, they moved to the 2023 Asia Cup which they co-hosted where they defeated Bangladesh twice and Afghanistan in a tightly contested match before losing to India. They then won a DLS match to Pakistan which knocked them out of the tournament, following which the defending champions moved to the final. However, this would be a one-sided show as India would restrict them to just 50, and then rapidly chase the target with 263 balls to spare.[50] The second string squad participated in the 2022 Asian Games. Though directly placed in the quater finals due to higher seeding, they lost the match to Afghanistan to get eliminated.[51]
They lost both their World Cup warm up matches to Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
Results of ICC Tournaments since the last Cricket World Cup
- The 2021 ICC World Test Championship final held in England was won by New Zealand who defeated India in the final.[52][53]
- The 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup held in UAE and Oman was won by Australia who defeated New Zealand in the final.[54]
- The 2022 ICC Men's T20 World Cup held in Australia was won by England who defeated Pakistan in the final.[55]
- The 2023 ICC World Test Championship final held in England was won by Australia who defeated India in the final.[56]
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