ODI World Cup Schedule Live: Australia in the 2023 World Cup. (FILE photo)

The International Cricket Council (ICC) will announce the schedule for the 2027 World Cup, which South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe will host. Australia will enter the tournament to defend its sixth title, which it won against India in 2023 in Ahmedabad.

World Cup will have 14 teams, unlike the previous edition, which had just 10 teams. The tournament will adopt a new three-stage competition format intended to ensure meaningful contests from the opening match through to the final. Fifty-seven matches will be played across 12 venues.

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Under the revised structure, the tournament will begin with a new “Super Series” involving the teams ranked 12th, 13th and 14th in qualification. These three teams will compete in a round-robin format, with only the winner advancing to the next stage.

The successful team will then join the remaining 11 qualified nations in the second phase, where two groups of six teams will contest 30 matches. The top three teams from each group, along with the next highest-placed team across both groups, will qualify for the newly introduced Super 7 stage.

The Super 7 will see all seven qualifying teams play each other in a single round-robin league comprising 21 matches. The top four teams will progress to the semifinals, with the first-placed side facing the fourth-ranked team and the second-placed side meeting the third-ranked team. The winners will advance to the final.

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