The chosen venues embody Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Dharamsala, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai and Pune.
Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram will host warm-up matches.
But established cricket centres like Mohali, Nagpur, Indore, Rajkot and Ranchi missed out on internet hosting any of the matches.
The matches are allotted zone smart and metro cities normally get to host the World Cup video games.
Though it’s an ICC occasion, the world physique tends to go along with venues proposed by the native organising committee, which is the BCCI on this case. A draft schedule was shared with the ICC earlier.
Indore, which commonly will get to host worldwide video games and staged an ODI and Test earlier this yr, is among the many main centres to have missed out on a World Cup fixture.
Though the ICC would not put a restrict on the variety of venues, the lesser the venues the lesser the logistical challenges in organising an occasion which as of late lasts for a month and a half and options as many as 10 groups.
Ahmedabad will host the World Cup opener, the ultimate, in addition to the massive marquee conflict of the match — India versus Pakistan — on October 15, together with different matches.
Barring Hyderabad, all of the chosen World Cup venues will get 5 video games every.
Guwahati, the lone venue for worldwide cricket within the Northeast, will host warm-up matches, together with one between India and England, however not any of the principle matches.
Kolkata edged out Chennai and Bangalore within the race to host a World Cup semifinal. Chennai and Bengaluru have been additionally within the race to host one of many semi-finals however the BCCI and ICC awarded the sport to the historic venue in Kolkata – the Eden Gardens.
The different semifinal shall be held in Mumbai.
Overall, Kolkata will host 5 matches of the World Cup together with the second semifinal on November 15 and India versus South Africa (November 5) within the group stage.
If India make it to the semis, they’ll play in Mumbai. However if they’re up towards Pakistan within the semis then the match shall be moved to Kolkata and the opposite semi-final shall be scheduled for Mumbai.
Several high-profile matches have been held within the Mohali stadium prior to now, together with the World Cup semi-finals in 1996 and 2011, however this time the venue was not included within the last checklist.
Dharamsala will host 5 matches, regardless that Mohali has a a lot larger stadium when it comes to capability.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com