The ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 schedule has arrived and fans are already excited about the ten-team cricket mega event starting soon. The tournament will begin on October 5 with the first match between England and New Zealand at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. However, the biggest fight will be between long-time rivals India and Pakistan. After months of deliberations and war of words between the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), the Indian board finally decided that the game would be played in Ahmedabad and Pakistan would tour. India will play the World Cup.
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Remember, PCB will play in only five venues – Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai and Kolkata – while the other nine teams will play in ten venues of the tournament. An earlier report said that Pakistan was not keen to play Afghanistan in Bengaluru and Australia in Chennai and wanted to swap the matches. His wish seems to be getting fulfilled in the schedule.
__Team India’s schedule for the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023__
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Will Pakistan play India in Ahmedabad?
There is a lot of buzz on social media that Pakistan may choose not to play India in Ahmedabad. In an earlier report, PTI quoted a PCB source as saying that the then chairman Najam Sethi had written to the ICC that Pakistan wanted to play games only in Kolkata, Chennai and Bengaluru. And they didn’t want to play in Ahmedabad unless it was a knockout match. Obviously, this time the demands of Pakistan have not been met.
“Sethi has told Barclay and Allardyce that Pakistan does not want their matches to be held in Ahmedabad unless it is a knock-out game like the final,” a PCB source told PTI.
“They requested the ICC to play their games in Chennai, Bengaluru and Kolkata if the national team gets clearance from the Pakistan government to travel to India for the global event in October and November,” the source told the agency. Schedule.”
What if Pakistan decides to boycott India’s match in Ahmedabad?
No one knows whether Pakistan still has any problem regarding the schedule of India vs Pakistan match. But if they do and decide not to play that match in Ahmedabad, India will have no objection. In 1996, Australia and West Indies had decided not to play any matches in Sri Lanka. That edition was co-hosted by India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. As a result of the boycott by Australia and the Windies, they gave walk overs to their opponents. Similarly, India will also get a walkover, i.e. get all the important points without playing the match.