Bengaluru will stage the opening match, involving India, and the final if Pakistan are not involved. The full list of fixtures for the eight-team tournament is still to be announced.<\/p>\n
Australia are the defending World Cup champions, having beaten England in the final of the previous tournament in New Zealand, delayed until 2022 because of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
One potential problem with the logistical switch could be the weather, with October one of the wetter months of the year in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n
India and Pakistan were not playing each other outside of major tournaments even before the conflict between the two nations last month.<\/p>\n
The cricketing tension between the two countries escalated over the Champions Trophy. Even though Pakistan travelled to India for the men’s 50-over World Cup in 2023, India did not make a reciprocal journey earlier this year.<\/p>\n
As part of the ICC arrangements, India played their matches in Dubai, going on to win the trophy after playing every fixture at the same venue.<\/p>\n
In May, amid cross-border military strikes between the two nations, both the Indian Premier League and Pakistan Super League were suspended before resuming. The delayed IPL final will be played on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
It remains to be seen whether the government of either country will allow their team to take part in a fixture against the other.<\/p>\n
It has also been announced the opening game of next year’s Women’s T20 World Cup in England will be played at Edgbaston on 12 June.<\/p>\n
The semi-finals have been confirmed for The Oval. The final will take place at Lord’s on 5 July 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bengaluru will stage the opening match, involving India, and the final if Pakistan are not involved. The full…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-152874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114615433749821548","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}