ICC World Cup 2019 Schedule

Host of the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup 2019

The ICC World Cup is the 12th Edition of the Cricket World Cup, Scheduled to be hosted by England and
Wales From 13th May to 14th July 2019. The hosting Rights to 2011, 2015 and 2019 world were awarded
simultaneously in 2006. Initially, England and Wales put in a joint bid for the 2015 world cup. However,
after Australia was beaten out by a joint Asian bid for the 2011 tournament they were offered the hosting
rights in 2015. England and Wales were granted the rights to 2019 if they agreed to withdraw their 2015
bid which they promote did. England was also granted to rights to the first ever T20 World cup in 2007 at
the same time. The cricket tournament was originally going to be an invitational the ICC granted if
official status.

Qualification for the 2019 Cricket World Cup

Only 10 teams will qualify for the 2019 world cup after a decision was taken to shrink the size of the
tournament. In 2011 and in 2015 the tournament had 14 teams but ICC has decided few nations will make
for a better competition. England will qualify automatically because they are hosting the Tournament, as
will the top seven one day international nations according to the latest ICC Rankings 6 months prior to
the tournament.

However, that leaves only two spots for the remaining test playing nation and affiliate members of the
ICC. Those places have been taken by Afghanistan and West Indies at a qualifying tournament which was
held in Bangladesh in March 2018. This tournament included the reaming four teams that failed to make
the top seven one day international spots plus the top four teams format he Cricket World League
Champions.

Teams Qualified for the 2019 Cricket World Cup

Automatically Qualifier

 England

Current Qualifiers based on current ICC One Day International Ranking

 Australia
 South Africa
 India
 New Zealand
 Sri Lanka
 Bangladesh
 Pakistan

Participant in the 2018 World Cup Qualification Tournaments

  West Indies
 Zimbabwe
 Afghanistan
 Ireland
 Papua New Guinea
 Netherlands
 Hong Kong
 Scotland

Format
In the past, a variety of formats have been used but the reduced number of teams this year means that the
format will be much simpler than in previous years. In 2018 there will only be one central group
consisting of all 10 teams. In this group stage, every nation will play each other once meaning that there
will be a total of 45 group games before the finals stage. Because of this extended group phase, the
quarterfinals have been abolished and the top 4 teams will instead progress directly to the semi-finals with
the remaining 6 nations knocked out of the tournament. The winners of each respective semi will progress
to the final and the winner of that match will be declared world champion.

Venues
Lords, the spiritual home of cricket will play host to the final while The Oval will host the opening game.
The two semi-finals according to the English Cricket Board will be played at Edgbaston and Old
Trafford. The London stadium will host the opening ceremony and some group stage fixtures. The rest of
the games will be played across England and Wales at the grounds which meet the ICCs size and capacity
requirements. A list of these stadiums is below.

Stadium City Country Capacity

Lords London Middlesex 28,000

Edgbaston Birmingham Warwickshire 25,000

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Rose Bowl Southampton Hamptonshire 25,000

The Oval London Surrey 23,500

Old Trentbridge Lancashire 22,000

Trafford

Riverside Chester Le Durham 20,000

Ground Street

Headingley Leads Yorkshire 17,500

Trentbridge Nottingham Nottinghamshire 17,000

County Leeds Gloucestershire 17,000
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Sophia Cardiff Glamorgan 15,640

Gardens

County Taunton Somerset 8,500

Ground

Cricket World Cup 2019 Schedule

The opening Match of the Tournament will be held on 30/05/2019 between England and South Africa
and the ending Cricket World Cup match will be on 14/7/2019 at lord’s. Here’s the complete list of
fixtures by ESPN cricinfo:

Favorites to win the 2019 Cricket World Cup

After winning the last World cup Australia are deserved favorites with India and South Africa not far
behind. It’d be interesting to see if Steve Smith and David Warner will make it back to the world cup
playing eleven after completing their one-year ban for being involved in ball tampering this year against
South Africa. Somewhat surprisingly and disappointingly for the hosts, England is the only fourth
favorite despite the host country historically having a massive advantage. As you would expect all test
playing nations are more heavily favored than the affiliate nations suggesting that the bookmakers believe
that they will have no trouble qualifying via the qualification tournament. It should be noted that since the
tournament is still over a year way that the above odds are likely to change.