ODI World Cup: India to play Pakistan on October 15 in Ahmedabad as per draft schedule | Cricket Information – Instances of India

NEW DELHI: India will kick off their 2023 ODI World Cup marketing campaign towards Australia in Chennai on October 8. A extremely anticipated conflict between India and arch-rivals will happen in Ahmedabad, exactly one week later.
“The BCCI shared the draft schedule with the ICC, which then despatched it to the taking part nations for suggestions earlier than a ultimate schedule is put out early subsequent week,” ESPNCricinfo reported on Monday.
As per the preliminary draft, the event will start on October 5 with reigning champions England taking over final version’s runner-up facet New Zealand in Ahmedabad, which can even host the ultimate on November 19.
The venues for the semifinals, that are prone to be performed on November 15 and 16, are but to be determined.
Hosts India, who final gained the ODI World Cup in 2011 at house, will play their league section matches throughout 9 cities, together with, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi and Bengaluru. They are going to tackle Pakistan on October 15.
Pakistan, in the meantime, will play their league matches throughout 5 cities.
“Pakistan are slotted to fulfill the 2 groups progressing from the Qualifier on October 6 and 12 in Hyderabad, after which 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 England in Kolkata (November 12),” the report learn.
Australia’s match towards Trans-Tasman rivals New Zealand in Dharamsala on October 29 and towards England in Ahmedabad on November four are a few of the different large fixtures.
A complete of 10 groups will take part within the event. Out of those, eight groups have already been determined and whereas two different groups will qualify for the primary event by way of the qualifiers.
With somewhat over 4 months left for the marquee occasion to start, there was an unprecedented delay in releasing the schedule.
The schedule of the final two editions of the event — 2015 and 2019 — was finalised over a 12 months upfront.
India’s tentative schedule:
India vs Australia, Oct 8, Chennai
India vs Afghanistan, Oct 11, Delhi
India vs Pakistan, Oct 15, Ahmedabad
India vs Bangladesh, Oct 19, Pune
India vs New Zealand, Oct 22, Dharamsala
India vs England, Oct 29, Lucknow
India vs Qualifier, Nov 2, Mumbai
India vs South Aafrica, Nov 5, Kolkata
India vs Qualifier, Nov 11, Bengaluru.

(With inputs from PTI)