IMAGE: Mumbai and Kolkata wish to host the ODI World Cup semifinals with Chennai lacking out. {Photograph}: Amlan Chakraborty/Reuters
Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium and the Eden Gardens in Kolkata — each iconic venues — have emerged because the frontrunners to host the 2 semifinals of the 2023 World Cup.
This implies the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai — one other venue with a wealthy legacy — might lose out on organising one of many greatest video games of the ODI showpiece.
“Mumbai’s Wankhede and Kolkata’s Eden Gardens are two seemingly venues for the World Cup semi-finals. Earlier, Chennai was additionally within the race nevertheless it appears Eden is barely forward now,” a BCCI supply advised PTI on Monday.
“One of many causes might be the November climate in Chennai the place there may be all the time likelihood of rain.”
Twelve internet hosting associations had been known as in Mumbai on Monday to debate the main points and finalise the venues earlier than Tuesday’s official announcement.
If India qualify for the semifinals, they’ll play their last-four stage sport in Mumbai.
The Wankhede Stadium hosted the ultimate of the 2011 World Cup, by which a Mahendra Singh Dhoni-led India beat Sri Lanka to finish a 28-year-old title drought, whereas the Eden Gardens performed host to the summit showdown between Australia and England within the 1987 version, by which the previous nation prevailed.
There shall be 10 groups at this 12 months’s World Cup. As hosts, India have certified immediately, as have Afghanistan, Australia, England, Bangladesh, New Zealand, Pakistan, and South Africa by means of the 2020-2023 ICC Cricket World Cup Tremendous League.
Two different groups will make it to the World Cup by means of the World Cup Qualifiers, which is being at the moment performed in Zimbabwe.
Aside from former champions Sri Lanka and the West Indies, the Qualifiers additionally characteristic Eire, Nepal, the Netherlands, Oman, Scotland, the UAE, the USA, and hosts Zimbabwe.
On the World Cup in India, the ten groups will play one another as soon as in a round-robin league that includes 45 matches.
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