From the intricacies of net run rate to the weather at the venues and the likely winners, here’s our essential lowdown
, and there’ll be another one in 2024, but those were and will be all in the Twenty20 format – 20 overs a side, to the uninitiated – while this one offers two-and-a-half times the fun with each innings lasting 50 overs. The last men’s World Cup in this format was way back in 2019. This one starts on 5 October and ends 46 giddy days later on 19 November.
Cricket doesn’t just offer thrilling sport, you see, there’s exciting maths to do as well. In addition to popular group-stage tiebreaker net run rate there’s also the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method, or DLS to its friends, used to calculate a fair target score in a rain-interrupted match, which would be far too complicated to explain here even if we understood it well enough to try but seems to do its job reasonably well.There was indeed.
Jos Buttler runs out New Zealand’s Martin Guptill to win the 2019 final on the contentious boundary countback system.Very possibly. India are this year’s hosts, and though October is towards the tail-end of their rainy season, in some of the host cities it is some way away from being dry.
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