{"id":789496,"date":"2026-10-02T09:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T09:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789496\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T09:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T09:42:14","slug":"england-and-wales-cricket-board-ecb-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789496\/","title":{"rendered":"England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fixtures for the 2027 ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup have been announced, with England Men set to play in all three host countries – South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia.<\/p>\n

The Three Lions begin their campaign against Bangladesh in Windhoek, Namibia, on Friday 8 October 2027, followed by a match against Sri Lanka at the same venue on 13 October.<\/p>\n

They then travel to face hosts South Africa in Gqeberha three days later. On 20 October they face a qualifier in Harare, before returning to Gqeberha to play New Zealand on 23 October.<\/p>\n

England Men fixtures at 2027 ICC Cricket World Cup<\/p>\n

8 October –\u00a0England Men v Bangladesh, Windhoek
13 October – England Men v Sri Lanka, Windhoek
16 October – England Men v South Africa, Gqeberha
20 October – England Men v Qualifier, Harare
23 October – England Men v New Zealand, Gqeberha<\/p>\n

Should England Men qualify for the second phase of the tournament, the fixture dates and venues are as below.<\/p>\n

27 October – Centurion
30 October – Victoria Falls
02 November – Cape Town
05 November – Durban
08 November – Durban
11 November – Gqeberha<\/p>\n

Fans can enter the official ticket ballot until 21 November for a chance to purchase tickets to their preferred matches. Click here<\/a> to find out more about the ballots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fixtures for the 2027 ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup have been announced, with England Men set to play…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,1602,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-789496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-text","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}