The Black Caps will face hosts South Africa in their first match at next year’s ODI Cricket World Cup, having avoided heavyweights India and Australia in the group phase.<\/p>\n
New Zealand’s first match is in Cape Town on October 9, followed by group games against Bangladesh, a qualifier, Sri Lanka and England.<\/p>\n
India and Pakistan are on the other side of the draw and will clash at The Wanderers in Johannesburg on October 10.<\/p>\n
India also have Australia in their pool in a repeat of the 2023 final.<\/p>\n
Their encounter will open the tournament in Cape Town on October 7, with the tournament co-hosted by South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n
India and Pakistan have a fierce rivalry on the cricket pitch, fuelled by political tensions between the subcontinent neighbours.<\/p>\n
There will likely be a fervent atmosphere at the Wanderers, nicknamed the ‘Bullring’, a high-scoring ground that will also stage the final on November 21.<\/p>\n
Afghanistan, co-hosts Zimbabwe and an as yet unknown qualifier are also in Group A with the top three teams in each pool advancing to the Super 7 phase, along with the best of the fourth-placed teams across the two pools.<\/p>\n
2027 Cricket World Cup groups:<\/p>\n
Group A: Afghanistan, Australia, India, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Qualifier A<\/p>\n
Group B: Bangladesh, England, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Qualifier B<\/p>\n
– Reuters, with additional reporting from RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Black Caps will face hosts South Africa in their first match at next year’s ODI Cricket World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-617696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617696","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=617696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}