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The Indian team led by Rohit Sharma will be the most travelled team among top contenders in the upcoming ODI World Cup, covering a distance of approximately 8400 km while crisscrossing nine cities for nine league games in 34 days. In case India reaches semi-final and then the final, the distance covered would be close to 9700 km for 11 games in 42 days.
Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) vice president Rajeev Shukla said a lot of centres and zones have been accommodated in the recently-released ICC Cricket World Cup schedule and Mohali, Punjab not getting a single match in the tournament is because the current stadium in Mohali did not meet the standards of ICC, whose consent is extremely important in finalising the venues for the tournament. Shukla's statement comes after Punjab Sports Minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer had raised objections to the exclusion of Mohali from the WC schedule.
The ICC ODI World Cup 2023 schedule was finally announced on Tuesday, with the tournament set to begin on October 05 in Ahmedabad while the final will be held at the Narendra Modi Stadium too, on November 19. The semi-finals of the tournament have been scheduled to be held in Mumbai and Kolkata. India will play their semi-final in Mumbai, if they qualify for the knockouts, but the venue will change in a scenario where they come up against arch-rivals Pakistan.
Proteas skipper Temba Bavuma hopes to make history in India as his side gears up for the ICC Cricket World Cup in India.
The officials of major cricket centres, which have not been allocated an ODI World Cup matches, have expressed their disappointment at missing out on an opportunity to host games of the ICC event in October-November. The International Cricket Council (ICC) and host BCCI announced the World Cup schedule on Tuesday, finalising 10 venues for the event beginning October 5.
India skipper Rohit Sharma is expecting the upcoming ODI World Cup in the country to be a highly-competitive affair since "the game has become faster". Twenty-20 cricket, the slam bang version of the game, has impacted all formats, including the traditional five-day games where the batters are not averse to going for their strokes from the word go. India will aim for their third title and the second at home when they begin their campaign against five-time champions Australia in Chennai on October 8. India play all their nine league matches at different venues including, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi, Lucknow and Bengaluru.
As the International Cricket Council announced the schedule for the ICC ODI World Cup 2023, former India cricketer Virender Sehwag sat in the broadcaster's studio to share some interesting anecdotes from his career as a cricketer. Sharing an intriguing story from India's triumphant 2011 World Cup-winning campaign, Sehwag said that MS Dhoni, the skipper of the Indian team in that edition of the tournament, only ate Khichdi as a superstition. Also, it wasn't just Dhoni who was involved in superstitions as India went on a roll in the tournament.
The Proteas will get their Cricket World Cup campaign under way against a qualifier on 7 October in Delhi.