Tickets for the One-Day International World Cup.

 

  Tickets for the One-Day International World Cup will go on             sale on August 25, 41 days before the opening match.

The details of the seven-phase ticket sale were made public on the same day as the schedule changes were announced.

Tickets for the 2023 ODI World Cup, which will be played across India, will go on sale on August 25, just over 40 days before the event begins on October 5. The ICC update came shortly after the World Cup's revised schedule, which was also substantially delayed, with dates changed for nine games, including the big-ticket India vs Pakistan match.

Tickets for all non-Indian matches, both warm-up and tournament, will go on sale first, on August 25. Following that, tickets for India's games will be sold in six phases, the first for their two warm-up games (against England in Guwahati on September 30 and versus Netherlands/Sri Lanka in Thiruvananthapuram on October 3) and then for their main event games.

• August 25: Warm-up and World Cup matches not featuring India
• August 30: India warm-up matches in Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram
• August 31: India World Cup matches in Chennai (vs Australia, Oct 8), Delhi (vs Afghanistan, Oct 11) and Pune (vs Bangladesh, Oct 19)
• September 1: India World Cup matches in Dharamsala (vs New Zealand, Oct 22), Lucknow (vs England, Oct 29) and Mumbai (vs Sri Lanka, Nov 2)
• September 2: India World Cup matches in Kolkata (vs South Africa, Nov 5) and Bengaluru (vs Netherlands, Nov 12)
• September 3: India World Cup matches in Ahmedabad (vs Pakistan, Oct 14)
• September 15: Semi-finals and final

"From the 15th of August, fans will be able to register their interest in advance of ticket sales at https://www.cricketworldcup.com/register." This will allow them to hear ticket news first and help secure their seat at the World Cup, as well as enjoy the joy of cricket in one day," the ICC explained in a statement.

"We call on all of cricket's hundreds of millions of fans to register your interest from next week to ensure you are one of the first to receive ticket news and to be a part of the biggest Cricket World Cup," said Chris Tetley, the ICC's head of events, in a statement. "The schedule change will ensure that players and fans have the best experience possible at the pinnacle event of the one-day game."

 The delay in releasing the final schedule and ticketing information is unusual for a World Cup. In comparison, tickets for the 2019 ODI World Cup in England and Wales went on sale in September 2018, and the ICC responded to the great demand for tickets with a new sale on March 21, 2019, with the event starting 70 days later on May 30.

Date changes for India-Pakistan and eight other World Cup games

Revised schedule finally released with less than two months to go before the start of the tournament on October 5

The England-Afghanistan match in Delhi, which had been planned for October 14, will now take place on October 15.

The match between New Zealand and Bangladesh in Chennai has been moved from a day game on October 14 to a day-night game on October 13. The England-Bangladesh game in Dharamsala will still take place on October 10, but it will now be a day game rather than a day-night fight.

Following concerns raised by Kolkata police to the Cricket Association of Bengal about holding a match on the same day as the Hindu festival of Kali Puja, the double-header scheduled for November 12 - Australia vs Bangladesh in Pune and England vs Pakistan in Kolkata - will now be played on November 11.

The league stage of the World Cup will now end with India playing Netherlands in Bengaluru on November 12, instead of November 11. The World Cup starts on October 5 with defending champions England taking on New Zealand in Ahmedabad, and culminates in the final on November 18, also in Ahmedabad. The semi-finals will be played in Mumbai and Kolkata on November 15 and 16 respectively. The ICC also announced that tickets for the event will go online from August 25.

The schedule of the 2023 ODI World Cup was released after a long delay on June 27, just 100 days before the start of the tournament on October 5 in Ahmedabad, whereas the schedules for the last two tournaments in Australia and New Zealand (2015) and England and Wales (2019) were out more than 12 months in advance.

It later emerged that the local police in Ahmedabad had raised concerns over providing adequate security on October 15, the original date of the India vs Pakistan game, which is also the first day of Navaratri, a major, nine-day Hindu festival.

Jay Shah, the BCCI secretary, had, however, dismissed that as the reason. "If security was an issue then why would the match go there [to Ahmedabad] - 14-15 is not the problem," he had said after a BCCI meeting on July 27. "Two or three boards have written in, asking to change based on the logistical challenges. There are some matches where there is only a two-day gap, so it will be difficult to play and then travel next day [and then play again]."