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The ICC on Wednesday announced the official warm-up fixtures for this year\u2019s Men\u2019s Cricket World Cup in India.<\/p>\n
The 10 teams will each play two official 50-over contests during the week leading up to the start of the World Cup on October 5, with matches to be held in three different cities across India.<\/p>\n
The matches will be held in Guwahati, Hyderabad and Thiruvananthapuram between Friday 29 September and Tuesday 3 October and will provide teams with the perfect opportunity to acclimatise to the conditions they are expected to face during the World Cup.<\/p>\n
On the opening day of warm-up fixtures Bangladesh will take on Sri Lanka in Guwahati, South Africa will tackle Afghanistan in Thiruvananthapuram and New Zealand will face Pakistan in Hyderabad.<\/p>\n
Hosts India will battle it out against reigning champions England the following day in Guwahati, while five-time winners Australia will be looking for some valuable practice when they play the Netherlands in Thiruvananthapuram on the same day.<\/p>\n
All games will commence at 2:00pm IST and teams will be allowed to field all members of their 15-player squads during the matches.<\/p>\n
World Cup warm-up fixtures:<\/strong><\/p>\n Friday 29 September<\/strong><\/p>\n Bangladesh v Sri Lanka, Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati<\/p>\n South Africa v Afghanistan, Greenfield International Stadium, Thiruvananthapuram<\/p>\n New Zealand v Pakistan, Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad<\/p>\n Saturday 30 September<\/strong><\/p>\n India v England, Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati<\/p>\n Australia v Netherlands, Greenfield International Stadium, Thiruvananthapuram<\/p>\n Monday 2 October<\/strong><\/p>\n England v Bangladesh, Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati<\/p>\n New Zealand v South Africa, Greenfield International Stadium, Thiruvananthapuram<\/p>\n Tuesday 3 October<\/strong><\/p>\n Afghanistan v Sri Lanka, Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati<\/p>\n India v Netherlands, Greenfield International Stadium, Thiruvananthapuram<\/p>\n Pakistan v Australia, Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] The ICC on Wednesday announced the official warm-up fixtures for this year\u2019s Men\u2019s Cricket World Cup in India. The 10 teams will each play two official 50-over contests during the week leading up to the start of the World Cup on October 5, with matches to be held in three different cities across India. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5982,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5980\/revisions\/5982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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