The 13th Cricket World Cup, organized by the International Cricket Council and contested by men’s national teams, will be held in 2023. India will host it from 5 October to 19 November 2023. It was postponed from February to March 2023 owing to the COVID-19 epidemic.
England, the 2019 winners, will be one of ten teams. India will host the first men’s Cricket World Cup alone after co-hosting in 1987, 1996, and 2011.
The final will be contested at Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium on November 19, 2023. The semifinals will be held at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai and Eden Gardens in Kolkata.
Format:
The event will have 10 teams and will be run the same way as the one in 2019: there will be a round-robin stage, then a semi-final, and then the final.
Background
Originally, the tournament was scheduled to run from February 9 to March 26, 2023. As a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic’s disruption of the qualification schedule, it was announced in July 2020 that the tournament would be relocated to October and November. On June 27, 2023, the ICC released the tournament schedule.
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) threatened to boycott the competition after the Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI) refused to send a team to the 2023 Asia Cup in Pakistan. This issue was resolved in June 2023 when the Asian Cricket Council announced that the competition would be hosted utilizing a hybrid model proposed by the PCB, with nine of the thirteen matches taking place in Sri Lanka.
2023 Cricket World Cup Qualification:
Means of Qualification |
Date |
Venue |
Berths |
Qualified |
| Host Nation | – | – | 1 | India |
| ICC Super League | 30 July 2020 – 14 May 2023 | Various | 7 |
|
| Qualifier | 18 June – 9 July 2023 | Zimbabwe | 2 |
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| Total | 10 |
Similar to the previous World Cup, there will be ten nations competing. Rather than the ODI rankings, the primary qualification route was the new ICC Cricket World Cup Super League, a series of matches contested between 2020 and 2023.The best eight of the thirteen teams in the Super League automatically qualified for the World Cup. However, as hosts, India, who finished fourth, were guaranteed a spot. In June and July of 2023, the bottom five teams from the Super League and the top five rated associate sides competed for the final two spots in the 2023 Cricket World Cup Qualifier.
As a consequence of the qualifying procedure, the competition will be the first to exclude former champions West Indies, who were eliminated by Scotland in the qualifying round. Three of the four full members who participated in the knockout qualification stage did not qualify, with only Sri Lanka advancing. This means that three of the four full members who participated did not qualify. The final qualifying position was determined by an elimination match between associate members Scotland and Netherlands. The Netherlands won the elimination round and earned the final place in the competition’s championship round.
Trophy Tour
The International Cricket Council announced the 2023 Cricket World Cup trophy tour on June 26, 2023, 100 days prior to the event’s commencement. The Tour was inaugurated by launching the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Trophy 37 kilometers (120 miles) into the stratosphere using a balloon, before it landed at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. Multiple cameras captured photographs of the trophy at the peak of its flight. The trophy then traveled to multiple countries before returning to the host nation on September 4, 2023.
Prize
The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that the World Cup champion will receive $4 million in prize money, while the runner-up will receive $2 million. Losing semifinalists will each receive $800,000 each. This is identical to the prize money for the 2019 competition. The total prize pool for the tournament is ten million dollars. Each team will receive the following amount of money based on its performance in the tournament:
Stage |
Teams |
Prize money (US$) |
Total (US$) |
| Winner | 1 | $4,000,000 | $4,000,000 |
| Runner-up | 1 | $2,000,000 | $2,000,000 |
| Losing semi-finalists | 2 | $800,000 | $1,600,000 |
| Winner of each league stage match | 45 | $40,000 | $1,800,000 |
| Teams that do not pass the league stage | 6 | $100,000 | $600,000 |
| Total | $10,000,000 |
Opening ceremony
The inaugural ceremony will take place at the Narendra Modi Stadium on October 4, 2023, a day prior to the opening match between England and New Zealand.
Warm-up matches
The Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Hyderabad, the Assam Cricket Association Stadium in Guwahati, and the Greenfield International Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram will host warm-up matches from 29 September to 3 October 2023.
