The round-robin stage at the 2019 Cricket World Cup has finally come to an end, and the finals have arrived after a thrilling final day of action on Saturday (Sunday morning AEST).
After 45 matches, ten teams have become four, and the remaining matches are all straight knockout, with the next two set to determine who will play in the final.
India (1st) vs New Zealand (4th)
When: Tuesday, July 9, 7:30pm AEST
Where: Old Trafford, Manchester
Australia (2nd) vs England (3rd)
When: Thursday, July 11, 7:30pm AEST
Where: Edgbaston, Birmingham
While Australia had top spot heading into the day’s action, they couldn’t hold onto it, falling to South Africa by ten runs at Old Trafford.
It means that they now need to hop back on the bus and head to Edgbaston for a semi-final against the old enemy England, while India will be tasked with playing New Zealand after they locked up top spot thanks to a big win over Sri Lanka at Leeds on the final day of action.
England and New Zealand have had their spots in the finals wrapped up since their match on Wednesday more or less, with Pakistan unable to pull off a miracle on Friday against Bangladesh to knock the Black Caps out of the finals.
» View all the Cricket World Cup fixtures here
Here are the anticipated hours of play for both semi-finals across all Australian timezones.
| AEST | ACST | AWST | |
|---|---|---|---|
| First innings | 7:30pm – 11pm | 7pm – 10:30pm | 5:30pm – 9pm |
| Innings break | 11pm – 11:30pm | 10:30pm – 11pm | 9pm – 9:30pm |
| Second innings | 11:30pm – 3am | 11pm – 2:30am | 9:30pm – 1am |
You’ll be able to follow live coverage of both semi-finals on The Roar with our live scores, coverage and highlights of all the action.
The final will be played between the two semi-final winners on Sunday, July 14, also from 7:30pm (AEST). The home of cricket, Lord’s in London, will host the deciding match of the tournament.
Simoc
Guest
If the rain happens it will hurt the pitch preparation and if it's overcast and a bit humid that will favour Australia. Those are the conditions we need for Starc and Behrendorff to rip the English top order apart if they bat first. If we bat first we should win with any score over 300. I think the Poms will choke in a chase. But we need Starc to be at his best again.
IndianCricketFan
Guest
"Nobody outside of England wants a slogfest" I agree with you there I2I. Matches where 270 is par are the most interesting. Hopefully the changing weather will mean a departure from the win toss, win match trend too.
Duncan Smith
Roar Guru
I would hate to go through due to weather. it should be a classic game.
James
Guest
If England play as well as they can or near to it they win easily, not knocking Australia but the sheer number of runs that England can hit makes Australian batting almost immaterial. Should be a good game but have to admit i kind of want New Zealand to win it all only because we have all been writing them off and they have been very ordinary, i like the redemption story.
satz
Roar Rookie
The Australian team for the tournament had Smith, Pattinson, Hazelwood , Stoinis, Faulkner
Fox
Roar Guru
India last encounter with NZ was the warm up game and the lost badly so they will be mindful of the kiwis. It is probably ironic that both side a happy they re playing each other and not England or Australia
AREH
Roar Guru
Just noticed this morning through the Twitterverse a picture of Kohli & Williamson as opposing U-19 World Cup final captains in 2008, and now here we are...incredible!
Insult_2_Injury
Roar Rookie
Congratulations to the Aussies, made it to the finals despite the pundits crystal balls. Any Aussie knows that finals are a different kettle of fish and if the batting order rejig, due to injury, reinvigorates some players mentally, Cummins recaptures his early tournament form and there is some swing in the air, then we’ll see a good contest against the Poms. Nobody outside England wants a slogfest. This tournament has been enjoyable because of the contests, let’s hope the finals deliver too.
badmanners
Roar Rookie
Geoff Lemon comments on the ABC news website that the weather isn't looking good for the Aus/Eng game with a possibility of game day and reserve day being rained out. And guess what? Aus goes through to the final as we finished ahead on the table. England relegated by it's weather! Mind you it is 5 days away, we just need to beat them, would be great doing it batting second.
Aron
Guest
Stage set for terrific world cup semi finals Clashes. I would have bet on Australia to win against England in the finals, but now things have changed quite a lot,like how it did when England were beaten by Sri lanka. First, Australia hasn't won a game in edgbaston. And second, England had pretty good experience playing in that field, recently with India where they had beaten them comfortably. Yes Australia has beaten England before. But now without khawaja and hopefully starc is alright but with that change in their order might affect them. And England has Roy now who didn't play against aussies before. With him, bairstow gets fired up. And with the pitches being set it might be England s win. Australia has a chance if they the toss but even that I won't be that sure. So England it is. On the other side, I think new Zealand have gone downhill. They are terrible in chase and even batting first look vulnerable. If Williamson gets out within 10, I think they might not even clear 200. The men in blue are looking strong again. Their middle even though looks vulnerable suddenly has karthik and pant and that adds lots of flexibility. One is conservative and the other can play at a strike rate of 150+. So India wins this for me even though they lost the warm ups to nz. Overall India vs England Finals at lords. And I expect this time India to come harder at England and win the trophy