Who Will Host The ICC Cricket World Cup In 2023?

World Cup 2019 is just a day away from coming to an end. After an exhilarating action that last for nearly month-and-a-half, hosts England will lock horns against New Zealand in the final on Sunday. Both the teams are yet to win the World Cup and thus the game is going to have a new world champion. While England will be playing their fourth final and first since 1992, New Zealand are playing their second back-to-back final.

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The final at the Lord’s will bring an end to the twelfth edition of the Cricket World Cup. The world will then have to wait for four more years for the next edition of Cricket ‘s biggest event. The next edition that is the thirteenth edition of the World Cup will be held in India. The tournament will commence on 9 February 2023 and will go on till 26 March 2023.

It will be the first time, India will host the World Cup alone. In the past, India had hosted three World Cups in 1987, 1996 and 2011. But on all those occasions, India co-hosted the tournament. India hosted the World Cup with Pakistan in 1987; Pakistan and Sri Lanka in 1996 and Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in 2011. Thus it will be the first time India would be hosting the tournament alone.

Moreover, the tournament will be played in the same format as the 2019 edition. The top seven ranked teams and the hosts (India) will automatically qualify for the World Cup. Two more teams will play the tournament – these will be the finalists of the 2023 Cricket World Cup qualifiers.

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India will become only the second team after England to host or co-host the World Cup four or more times. England have so far hosted and co-hosted the tournament a record five times. They hosted the first two editions alone before the other three editions were hosted along with neighbours Scotland, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

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