The 2023 ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup will be the 13th edition of the Cricket World Cup where ten teams will fight it out against each other to win the most prestigious cricketing event. This edition which will be hosted in India kicks off from 5th October 2023, but before that all the teams have one final opportunity to apply finishing touches to their preparation for this event as Warm up matches are lined up which starts from 29th September 2023 where each team will play two warm up games to try and get accustom to the conditions on offer and may be tweak their strategies for this mega event.
Warm up matches schedule
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An overlook as to how the teams stand
The buzz around is that as always people feel India, Australia, England and New Zealand look good for the semi final spots as they all have been more consistent in such events. India the most favourite to go on and lift the trophy considering they know better the conditions which will be offered as they are the host nation. So does that mean other teams do not stand a chance??? Well than you need to take back your words. Pakistan, South Africa are more than capeable of lifting the trophy as well and they can come out as dark horses, also one cannot completely take out Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Sri lanka out of contention because they too can pose some serious threats considering the sub continent conditions which favours them more.
No harsh feeling for Netherlands as they have achieved quite a feat to qualify for this mega event they too can hand over an upset or too. All the teams though have the fire power required, also most of the players play IPL so the conditions in India will not be something they would fear or be worried about as they possess skills and good amount of experience of playing in these conditions all thanks to IPL. Thus, in the end it would all come down to how one handles the pressure and situation and who can calm the nerves better.
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