To be held in India this year New history in ODI World Cup There is going to be money, as not a single captain from the previous edition will be leading his team in the mega event this time.
New Zealand captain Kane Williamson, who was injured during a game in this year’s Indian Premier League (IPL), is feared to be out of the mega event, after which Tom Latham can take over the leadership in his absence. are
Kane Williamson led his team to the finals of the mega event in 2019, but unfortunately they could not win the World Cup. During this time, he scored 578 runs in 9 innings and was declared the best player of the tournament.
Among the other teams that have qualified directly: Gulbuddin Naib is still around, but Afghanistan has been led by Hashmatullah Shahidi for some time. Australia is now led by Pat Cummins, Aaron Finch has retired from international cricket. Bangladesh have Tamim Iqbal in place of Mashrafe Murtaza, who has not played at international level since March 2020.
Eoin Morgan retired from international cricket after seven-and-a-half years as their white-ball captain, which included the 2019 World Cup trophy – Jos Buttler will now look to take over the captaincy duties.
Rohit Sharma is India’s all-format captain, who took over in ODIs after Virat Kohli was ousted at the end of 2021.
Babar Azam has been the captain of Pakistan in ODI cricket since May 2020, replacing Sarfraz Ahmed.
Sri Lanka and West Indies, who featured in the 10-team main event last time, will play qualifiers this year. But there are also changes.
Sri Lanka will have Dasan Shanaka as captain in place of Dimuth Karunaratne, while the West Indies are now led by Shai Hope – who was previously captained by Jason Holder in the previous event.
South Africa are also yet to qualify for the main event – if Ireland win all three matches against Bangladesh in the upcoming series and improve their net run rate from -0.382 to -0.076 or better, they are still among them. can go beyond
South Africa is now led by Temba Bama, previously led by Faf du Plessis in the World Cup.
The Men’s ODI World Cup will start from October 5 and is likely to end around November 19.
Meanwhile, the qualifying event will be held in Zimbabwe between June 18 and July 9.
Along with Sri Lanka and West Indies, a team from Netherlands, Zimbabwe, Nepal, Oman, Scotland, USA, UAE and Ireland and South Africa will participate.
of the ceremony. The top two teams from the qualifiers will advance to the World Cup.