PAKISTAN CRICKET TEAM’S WORLD CUP 2023 SCHEDULE – VENUES, DATES FOR THE WC MATCHES ANNOUNCED
PAK CRICKET TEAM’S WORLD CUP 2023 SCHEDULE:
The upcoming ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 is scheduled to take place in India later this year and finally after a long wait the schedule for the 2023 Cricket World Cup is announced.
Pakistan Cricket Team will tour India for the first time since 2016 when they toured India for the ICC 2016 T20 World Cup and this time they will again tour India for the 2023 Cricket World Cup.
Even though there were many speculations that the Pakistan team will not tour India for the upcoming Cricket World Cup 2023 because of issues with the Indian Cricket Board but as per the schedule it’s almost confirmed that there are no more doubts over the participation of Pakistan in the upcoming Cricket World Cup.
In the upcoming ICC Cricket World Cup 2023, a total of 10 teams will participate and will play against each other in the group stage round – the top four teams will qualify for the next round of the ICC Cricket World Cup in India.
PAKISTAN’S WORLD CUP 2023 SCHEDULE:
Pakistan Cricket Team will tour India for the upcoming Cricket World Cup and will play on five different venues in India, here are the complete list of the venues in which Pakistan Cricket Team will play their World Cup matches.
Pakistan Cricket Team on the tour to India for the 2023 Cricket World Cup will play on five different venues, and those venues are Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Kolkata, and Bengaluru.
Pakistan Cricket Team will play two World Cup matches in India at Hyderabad, Chennai, and Kolkata respectively. Pakistan will play only one World Cup match at Ahmedabad Cricket Stadium, also known as the Narendra Modi Cricket Stadium against the arch-rivals, India.
The fixtures of Pakistan in the upcoming ICC Cricket World Cup in India have been officially announced. Here are the complete details of the venues, and dates of the matches that the Pakistan Cricket Team will play in the 2023 Cricket World in India, which are as follows;
| MATCHES | VENUES | DATES |
| PAKISTAN VS QUALIFIER 1 | HYDERABAD | OCTOBER 6, 2023 |
| PAKISTAN VS QUALIFIER 2 | HYDERABAD | OCTOBER 12, 2023 |
| PAKISTAN VS INDIA | AHMEDABAD | OCTOBER 15, 2023 |
| PAKISTAN VS AUSTRALIA | BENGALURU | OCTOBER 20, 2023 |
| PAKISTAN VS AFGHANISTAN | CHENNAI | OCTOBER 23, 2023 |
| PAKISTAN VS SOUTH AFRICA | CHENNAI | OCTOBER 27, 2023 |
| PAKISTAN VS BANGLADESH | KOLKATA | OCTOBER 31, 2023 |
| PAKISTAN VS NEWZEALAND | BENGALURU | NOVEMBER 4, 2023 |
| PAKISTAN VS ENGLAND | KOLKATA | NOVEMBER 12, 2023 |
Pakistan Cricket Team will start their World Cup campaign against the Qualifier Team on 6TH OCTOBER, 2023 and will play their last group stage match on 12TH NOVEMBER, 2023 against the 2019 World Champions, England Cricket Team.
PAKISTAN VS INDIA WORLD CUP 2023:
One of the highly anticipated contests in the ICC Cricket World Cup is between India and Pakistan and as per the official schedule both teams will take on each other at the world’s biggest cricket stadium, Narendra Modi Cricket Stadium. Pakistan will face India in their own backyard on 15TH OCTOBER, 2023 in the upcoming ICC Cricket World Cup 2023.
CHANGE OF VENUES REQUEST OF PCB REJECTED – According to the media sources, the Pakistan Cricket Board requested the International Cricket Council to look into the venues of the Pakistan Team against Afghanistan and Australia as they want to swap the venues of Bengaluru and Chennai because the opposition team had a fair advantage over Pakistan but as per the updates, ICC rejected this request of Pakistan and even in the officially announced schedule of the Pakistan Cricket Team, Bengaluru and Chennai are the venues on which Pakistan has to face Australia and Afghanistan, respectively.
