In Group A is India, Australia, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Zimbabwe with a team to come out of qualifying. <\/p>\n
India will meet defending champions Australia and bitter rivals Pakistan in their first two matches.<\/p>\n
The India-Australia match, a repeat of the 2023 final, will be in Cape Town on October 7 and the India-Pakistan clash will take place in Johannesburg three days later.<\/p>\n
The group match between India and Pakistan will be played at the Wanderers Stadium, the tournament\u2019s biggest venue and tickets are almost certain to be in high demand.<\/p>\n
After a preliminary round to eliminate two of the three lowest-ranked teams, 12 teams will be split into two groups for round-robin matches before the top three in each group, and the best fourth-placed team, qualify for a Super Seven phase, followed by semi-finals and the final.<\/p>\n
Because of political tensions between the two countries, India and Pakistan have only played each other in ICC events since Pakistan toured India for three one-day internationals and two Twenty20 internationals in December 2012.<\/p>\n
The rivalry is intense despite India having won all eight matches against Pakistan in Cricket World Cups and eight out of nine in T20 World Cups.<\/p>\n
– With AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Group A is India, Australia, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Zimbabwe with a team to come out of qualifying.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[18516,190,95,11497,1558,7022,42574,150592,16558,10542,40671,36426,1634,305,78,60319,111,139,1536,69,16552,108842,1240,213,102,377,1530],"class_list":["post-617684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-18516","tag-africa","tag-and","tag-bangladesh","tag-been","tag-black","tag-caps","tag-cohosts","tag-cricket","tag-cup","tag-draw","tag-drawn","tag-england","tag-have","tag-in","tag-lanka","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-next","tag-nz","tag-odi","tag-qualifier","tag-south","tag-sports","tag-with","tag-world","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}