Cricket World Cup 2023: England start defence against New Zealand

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Jos Buttler replaced World Cup-winning skipper Eoin Morgan arsenic skipper of England's white-ball teams successful 2022

England volition statesman their World Cup defence against New Zealand successful Ahmedabad connected 5 October successful a repetition of the melodramatic 2019 final.

Games against Bangladesh, Afghanistan and South Africa travel earlier they look India, Australia and Pakistan, arsenic good arsenic 2 arsenic yet chartless qualifiers.

Hosts India look Pakistan successful Mumbai connected 15 October, with the radical stages lasting until 12 November.

England's opener volition beryllium played astatine the world's largest cricket crushed - the 132,000-capacity Narendra Modi Stadium.

England are presently treble satellite champions successful the white-ball formats aft beating Pakistan in the last of the T20 World Cup successful Australia past year.

The semi-finals, should England get that far, are scheduled for consecutive days connected 15 and 16 November with the last successful Ahmedabad connected 19 November.

Additionally, England are acceptable to play 2 warm-up matches earlier the tournament, against India connected 30 September and against a qualifier connected 2 October successful Guwahati.