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The photo is from the Johannesburg Stadium in South Africa. The 2027 World Cup matches will also be played here.
Cricket South Africa (CSA) has dissected 8 vanu of the ODI World Cup to be held in 2027 on Saturday. According to this, 44 World Cup matches will be played in 8 cities of South Africa, while 10 matches will be held in Namibia-Jimbabwe. The matches to be held in South Africa will be played in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town, Durban, Gakebaraha, Blowmfontan, East London and Parls.
CSA has also formed a local committee to organize the tournament. Australia won the last title of the ODI World Cup. The Kangaroo team defeated hosts India by 6 wickets in the final match played in Ahmedabad on 19 November 2023.
Australia has won the last title of the ODI World Cup. The team became the champion by defeating India in 2023.
South Africa has hosted 5 ICC tournament South Africa hosted the Champions Trophy 2009, the first T20 World Cup 2007 and the ODI Cup in 2003. In addition, South Africa has also successfully conducted two Women’s World Cups. The 50 -over World Cup of 2005 and the T20 World Cup of 2023, in which the Protiaz team reached the final but lost to Australia.
The first T20 World Cup took place in South Africa. It was won by India under the captaincy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
CSA formed 2027 World Cup Committee Former Finance Minister of South Africa, Trevor Manual, has been made the head of the local organizing committee of the 2027 Cricket World Cup. CSA chairperson Pearl Mafoshe said, CSA thinks that we should organize a global and inspirational event that will show the solidarity of South Africa.
Namibia will have to play qualifiers to make it to place South Africa and Zimbabwe’s teams have already qualified for the tournament as a host, although Namibia will have to go through an African qualifier to make it to. The remaining teams will be decided by the ICC ODI rankings. The top 8 teams will directly qualify, while the last 4 countries will meet the global qualifiers.
Namibia can qualify for the World Cup by winning the African qualifier.
14 teams will participate in the tournament The tournament will be played in two groups, each group will have 7 teams. In the group stage, every team will play matches with all the other teams of their group. The top three teams of each group will go to the super six round. After this, the top teams will play semi -finals. Finally, the new champion will be decided through the final.