The International Cricket Council has announced the expansion of the men’s ODI World Cup and Twenty20 World Cup, while also reintroducing the Champions Trophy.
The World Cup will become a 14-team, 54-match event in 2027 and 2031.
The T20 World Cup will be expanded to a 20-team, 55-match tournament every two years from 2024.
The ODI World Cup format will be two groups of seven, with the top three in each group progressing to a Super Six stage, followed by semi-finals and the final.
The announcement reverses the ICC’s decision to cut the field from 14 teams to ten after the 2015 tournament.
The cut meant the 2019 World Cup in England and Wales took place without the likes of Zimbabwe and Ireland, with qualification harder for teams outside the traditional elite.
The 2023 World Cup in India will remain a ten-team event.
The T20 competition will consist of four groups of five, with the top two from each group going through to a Super Eights stage, before the semi-finals and the final.
The T20 World Cup currently features 16 teams.
Meanwhile, an eight-team Champions Trophy will be held in 2025 and 2029 with two groups of four, semi-finals and the final.
It was last held in 2017 in England and won by Pakistan.
Timmuh
Roar Guru
The T20 Worlds would still need some qualifiers, particularly for non-Test nations and maybe those not in the WTC*, but outside of that leave it for the franchises. Those comps already take up far too much of the calendar. *WTC should be all Test teams but that's another rant.
The real SC
Roar Rookie
Ireland hasn't played in the Cricket World Cup (Mens ODI) since 2015. However, The sporting code is growing in the Ireland. I feel Ireland have a lot of talent including Andrew Balbirnie, George Dockerell and Lorcan Tucker.
Micko
Roar Rookie
Yes, the super six world cups just made it too long and unnecessarily drawn out.
Micko
Roar Rookie
Change your name already! :stoked: :silly:
Jack
Guest
The big winners are emerging nations like Scotland Ireland and Nepal , the game is also growing quickly in Middle East
Jack
Guest
I think it’s a great move. They want to grow cricket in more nations and grow test cricket then t20 is the vehicle for this. In terms of 50 over World Cup I think this is good 12 test teams plus the best 2 emerging future test nations
Once Upon a Time on the Roar
Roar Guru
And the t20 should change its name to the t20 world championship and become the only international t20 ever played. That way we can maintain the integrity of proper one day cricket.
badmanners
Roar Rookie
I think that's really great news for the ODI World Cup! It's still a relevant, prestigious event and this should give it even greater interest with the minnows playing. :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
Former roarer
Guest
Awesome call expanding to 14. Shocking call introducing the super sixes bit again. Just play two groups of 7 with semi's and the final. 6 pool games is plenty enough to sort the wheat from the chaff, and also enough to give a team who had an early loss to fight back to 2nd in the pool.
Dwanye
Roar Rookie
I wish they’d stuck to one competition number (preferably a larger number). I think it hurts the sport for the small nations, one comp they can make, next one it a smaller number. Some will argue against minnows, I think it helps the small teams and players from them, like the Olympics. If the top three or four teams got to play 4 minnows that’s no good, but if each of the big 3/4 play one each.
Micko
Roar Rookie
No, it did. But agreed: what a farce T20 "world cups" are! I can't remember any of them, except WI won one when they were still a test basketcase.
Paul
Roar Guru
What this story doesn't mention is the T20 World Cup being played every 2 years. A blatant money grab by the ICC.