India will play two official warm-up matches towards England and the Netherlands, forward of its ODI World Cup opener towards Australia, the ICC stated on Wednesday.
The 2-time winner, India, will face the defending champion, England, within the first warm-up sport on September 30 on the Barsapara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati, after which it should journey to Thiruvananthapuram to face the Netherlands on October 3.
A complete of three venues — Guwahati, Thiruvananthapuram and Hyderabad — will host the official warm-up matches for all the ten groups earlier than the World Cup opener in Ahmedabad on October 5 between New Zealand and England.
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“The ten groups will every play two official 50-over contests in the course of the week main as much as the beginning of the World Cup on October 5, with matches to be held in three completely different cities throughout India,” the ICC stated in a launch.
“The matches will present groups with the right alternative to acclimatise to the situations they’re anticipated to face in the course of the World Cup.”
All matches within the warm-up spherical will begin within the afternoon. “All video games will start at 2:00pm IST and groups can be allowed to subject all members of their 15-player squads in the course of the matches,” the ICC stated.
Full match schedule:
September 29: Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka (Guwahati), South Africa vs Afghanistan, (Thiruvananthapuram) and New Zealand vs Pakistan (Hyderabad).
September 30: India vs England (Guwahati), Australia vs Netherlands (Thiruvananthapuram).
October 2: England vs Bangladesh (Guwahati), New Zealand vs South Africa (Thiruvananthapuram).
October 3: India vs Netherlands (Thiruvananthapuram), Afghanistan vs Sri Lanka (Guwahati), Pakistan vs Australia (Hyderabad).