Cricket World Cup 2023: all you need to know about this year’s event

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Did you say Cricket World Cup? Didn't we just experience one of these? You probably think England won 2022, or Australia won 2021 and there will be another 2024, but those were and will all be the Twenty20 format - 20 points a side. uninitiated - whereas this offers two and a half times more fun, with each hit lasting over 50 times. The last men's World Cup in this format took place in 2019. This begins on October 5th and ends on November 19th, 46 dizzying days later. Who is involved? There are 10 teams three of the International Cricket Council's full member countries and all but one associate member. The missing trio consists of Ireland, Zimbabwe and West Indies, who won first two World Cups, reached final in third and have never failed to qualify in knockout rounds before. In this year's final qualifying round, played Zimbabwe in June and July, only top two teams advanced to final and West Indies finished fifth Super Six stage, losing to all they faced except Oman. Sri Lanka and Netherlands, only partner countries, exited group; All three sides finished level on points, former with a 100% record, latter with a net run rate slightly better than Scotland's and much better than Zimbabwe's. Not only does cricket offer an exciting sport, it also has exciting mathematics. In addition the popular group stage tiebreaker net run rate , 22 over calculations would mean if they were less incompetent there is also the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method, or DLS to friends, used calculate a fair target score in a rain-interrupted match. Even if we understood this well enough try and it seemed to do the job pretty well, would be too complicated explain here. When England won the last World Cup, wasn't there another strange tiebreaker? There really was. The 2019 final between England and New Zealand ended in a draw, so the teams played a superb overs - each facing another six legal deliveries - and still ended up drawing. So there was a boundary countdown, adding up the fours and sixes scored by each team throughout the day, which England won 26-17. Everyone agreed this was ridiculous, so if the situation repeats itself in this year's knockout rounds, teams will play as many super overs as necessary to split them. Jos Buttler edged New Zealand's Martin Guptill to win the 2019 final on a contested boundary countback system. Tom JenkinsThe Guardian Will the rain happen? Very likely. This year's host is India, and although October is towards end of the rainy season, some of host cities are a little away from drought. All three qualifying matches have reserve days, but the group stage is already big enough without such luxuries. The format puts all 10 teams in one large group, so 45 games will have been played, or at least attempted, by time everyone faces each other, with the top four places advancing to semi-finals. The same format was used in 2019 but this will be its last event with the 2027 event being expanded to 14 teams. Games are