India vs Pakistan set for October 15 in draft schedule of ODI World Cup
Ahmedabad, which brags of an arena that seats north of 100,000, is set to have the blockbuster India versus Pakistan conflict on October 15 in the ODI World Cup not long from now. Britain and New Zealand, the groups that challenged the exhilarating tied last in 2019, are set to meet in the competition opener on October 5, while India are set to open their mission against Australia in Chennai three days after the fact. These are a portion of the marquee challenges in the underlying draft timetable of the 2023 ODI World Cup, ready by the BCCI.
The BCCI shared the draft plan with the ICC, which then sent it to the taking part nations for input before a last timetable is put out ahead of schedule one week from now.
The draft plan doesn't specify the scenes for the semi-finals, which are probably going to be played on November 15 and 16. The last will be on November 19 in Ahmedabad, which is likewise booked to have the initial game.
Cricket has discovered that in the draft adaptation, India are planned to play their association matches across nine scenes. India's agenda contains:
Pakistan are planned to play across five scenes during the association stage. Aside from the India match in Ahmedabad, Pakistan are opened to meet the two groups advancing from the Qualifier on October 6 and 12 in Hyderabad, and afterward Australia in Bengaluru (October 20), Afghanistan (October 23) and South Africa (October 27) in Chennai, Bangladesh in Kolkata (October 31), New Zealand in Bengaluru (November 5, day match) and Britain in Kolkata (November 12), which in the proposed plan is the last match of the association stage.
Among other enormous matches are Australia versus New Zealand in Dharamsala on October 29, Australia versus Britain in Ahmedabad on November 4 and New Zealand versus South Africa in Pune on November 1.
There has been an uncommon postpone before the apparatuses declaration, with the World Cup beginning in around four months' time. In the beyond two releases of the competition - 2015 and 2019 - the timetable was settled over a year ahead of time.
On May 27, Jay Shah, the BCCI secretary, had said the timetable would be out during the World Test Title last. However, he didn't give the explanation for the deferral. On the primary day of the WTC last, talking on BBC's Test Match Extraordinary, ICC President Geoff Allardice said the timetable would be out "at any point in the near future", yet didn't determine when precisely.
The defer in the timetable has additionally not permitted the ICC to put out tagging subtleties even as fans from abroad have developed frantic to make travel courses of action.
Ind vs Aus, Oct 8, Chennai
Ind vs Afg, Oct 11, Delhi
Ind vs Pak, Oct 15, Ahmedabad
Ind vs Ban, Oct 19, Pune
Ind vs NZ, Oct 22, Dharamsala
Ind vs Eng, Oct 29, Lucknow
Ind vs qualifier, Nov 2, Mumbai
Ind vs SA, Nov 5, Kolkata
Ind vs qualifier, Nov 11, Bengaluru