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The 2019 Cricket World Cup is here, and at The Roar, we will have your every need catered throughout the tournament. Before it gets underway on Thursday though, you’ll want to download all of the fixtures, with start times Australian.
You can consider this your ultimate guide to every match set to be played during the tournament, which will get underway at The Oval in London as hosts England take on South Africa. The match will commence at 7:30pm (AEST) on Thursday, May 30.
From there, 45 round robin matches will be played by the top ten teams in world cricket, followed by a pair of semi-finals and the final, which will be on Sunday, July 14.
» Download your complete Cricket World Cup Schedule – with all times Australian – in PDF form
Day matches will begin at 7:30pm (AEST) and finish at around 3am (AEST), while day-night matches will begin three hours later, at 10:30pm (AEST) and finish at around 6am. Matches will be played with two innings of roughly three and a half hours, as well as a 30-minute innings break.
Matches will be played on every day of the tournament throughout the round robin, with a number of select days – mainly Saturday’s – carrying a pair of matches. During the round robin, each team will play all of the others in the tournament once.
Defending champions Australia start their campaign on Saturday, June 1 against Afghanistan in a day-night match.
Following the round robin stage, the top four teams then advance to the knockout rounds, which will see the semi-finals played on Tuesday, July 9 and Thursday, July 11, and the final on July 14. All three knockout matches begin at the slightly more hospitable hour of 7:30pm (AEST) for Australian audiences.
Be sure to keep it locked to The Roar throughout the course of the tournament, where will have all the best analysis, highlights, and live commentary of every single match throughout the tournament.