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THU 30/5 - 10:30 AM BST
1st match, at London, May 30 2019
England
South Africa

FRI 31/5 - 10:30 AM BST
2nd match, at Nottingham, May 31 2019
Pakistan
West Indies

SAT 1/6 - 10:30 AM BST
3rd match, at Cardiff, Jun 1 2019
New Zealand
Sri Lanka

SAT 1/6 - 01:30 PM BST
4th match, (D/N) at Bristol, Jun 1 2019
Afghanistan
Australia

SUN 2/6 - 10:30 AM BST
5th match, at London, Jun 2 2019
Bangladesh
South Africa

MON 3/6 - 10:30 AM BST
6th match, at Nottingham, Jun 3 2019
England
Pakistan

TUE 4/6 - 10:30 AM BST
7th match, at Cardiff, Jun 4 2019
Afghanistan
Sri Lanka

WED 5/6 - 10:30 AM BST
8th match, at Southampton, Jun 5 2019
India
South Africa

WED 5/6 - 01:30 PM BST
9th match, (D/N) at London, Jun 5 2019
Bangladesh
New Zealand

THU 6/6 - 10:30 AM BST
10th match, at Nottingham, Jun 6 2019
Australia
West Indies

FRI 7/6 - 10:30 AM BST
11th match, at Bristol, Jun 7 2019
Pakistan
Sri Lanka

SAT 8/6 - 10:30 AM BST
12th match, at Cardiff, Jun 8 2019
England
Bangladesh

SAT 8/6 - 01:30 PM BST
13th match, (D/N) at Taunton, Jun 8 2019
Afghanistan
New Zealand

SUN 9/6 - 10:30 AM BST
14th match, at London, Jun 9 2019
Australia
India

MON 10/6 - 10:30 AM BST
15th match, at Southampton, Jun 10 2019
South Africa
West Indies

TUE 11/6 - 10:30 AM BST
16th match, at Bristol, Jun 11 2019
Bangladesh
Sri Lanka

WED 12/6 - 10:30 AM BST
17th match, at Taunton, Jun 12 2019
Australia
Pakistan

THU 13/6 - 10:30 AM BST
18th match, at Nottingham, Jun 13 2019
India
New Zealand

FRI 14/6 - 10:30 AM BST
19th match, at Southampton, Jun 14 2019
England
West Indies

SAT 15/6 - 10:30 AM BST
20th match, at London, Jun 15 2019
Australia
Sri Lanka

SAT 15/6 - 01:30 PM BST
21st match, (D/N) at Cardiff, Jun 15 2019
Afghanistan
South Africa

SUN 16/6 - 10:30 AM BST
22nd match, at Manchester, Jun 16 2019
India
Pakistan

MON 17/6 - 10:30 AM BST
23rd match, at Taunton, Jun 17 2019
Bangladesh
West Indies

TUE 18/6 - 10:30 AM BST
24th match, at Manchester, Jun 18 2019
Afghanistan
England

WED 19/6 - 10:30 AM BST
25th match, at Birmingham, Jun 19 2019
New Zealand
South Africa

THU 20/6 - 10:30 AM BST
26th match, at Nottingham, Jun 20 2019
Australia
Bangladesh

FRI 21/6 - 10:30 AM BST
27th match, at Leeds, Jun 21 2019
England
Sri Lanka

SAT 22/6 - 10:30 AM BST
28th match, at Southampton, Jun 22 2019
Afghanistan
India

SAT 22/6 - 01:30 PM BST
29th match, (D/N) at Manchester, Jun 22 2019
New Zealand
West Indies

SUN 23/6 - 10:30 AM BST
30th match, at London, Jun 23 2019
Pakistan
South Africa

MON 24/6 - 10:30 AM BST
31st match, at Southampton, Jun 24 2019
Afghanistan
Bangladesh

TUE 25/6 - 10:30 AM BST
32nd match, at London, Jun 25 2019
England
Australia

WED 26/6 - 10:30 AM BST
33rd match, at Birmingham, Jun 26 2019
New Zealand
Pakistan

THU 27/6 - 10:30 AM BST
34th match, at Manchester, Jun 27 2019
India
West Indies

FRI 28/6 - 10:30 AM BST
35th match, at Chester-le-Street, Jun 28 2019
South Africa
Sri Lanka

SAT 29/6 - 10:30 AM BST
36th match, at Leeds, Jun 29 2019
Afghanistan
Pakistan

SAT 29/6 - 01:30 PM BST
37th match, (D/N) at London, Jun 29 2019
Australia
New Zealand

SUN 30/6 - 10:30 AM BST
38th match, at Birmingham, Jun 30 2019
England
India

MON 1/7 - 10:30 AM BST
39th match, at Chester-le-Street, Jul 1 2019
Sri Lanka
West Indies

TUE 2/7 - 10:30 AM BST
40th match, at Birmingham, Jul 2 2019
Bangladesh
India

WED 3/7 - 10:30 AM BST
41st match, at Chester-le-Street, Jul 3 2019
England
New Zealand

THU 4/7 - 10:30 AM BST
42nd match, at Leeds, Jul 4 2019
Afghanistan
West Indies

FRI 5/7 - 01:30 PM BST
43rd match, (D/N) at London, Jul 5 2019
Bangladesh
Pakistan

SAT 6/7 - 10:30 AM BST
44th match, at Leeds, Jul 6 2019
India
Sri Lanka

SAT 6/7 - 01:30 PM BST
45th match, (D/N) at Manchester, Jul 6 2019
Australia
South Africa

Stupid format. Only 10 teams, yet 45 matches to decide four semi-finalists?

Only cricket.

Since the 2007 World Cup, when India and Pakistan went out early, the ICC have been desperate to ensure that there is no chance of the 'big three' (England, Australia and India) going out early, due to the loss of TV revenue and have kept revising formats to try and guarantee they stay in as long as possible. This has now gone so far as to exclude most of the associates, because of the risk one of them might cause an upset and knock out a big name (in 2015 it was England) before the later stages of the tournament. But heaven forbid a World Cup should pass without an England-Australia, Australia-India or India-Pakistan match.

Other sports look on the World Cup as a chance to grow the game and spark interest around the globe. They're keen to expand to as many countries as possible. Cricket's going backwards.

/rant.

Completely agree bfl. They are doing the same in the WT20 with a preliminary round that the big teams don't participate in. Another example of money trumping common sense. I would personally way prefer to see 4 groups of 4 then the top 2 from each advancing into a knockout, like the football Euros used to do pre 2016.

Yes, the 2007 WC had the best and most interesting format.

This one could hardly be worse. More like a condensed ranking programme than a cup competition.

It still holds some interest, but probably the minimum possible.

Such is England's success recently, I have little doubt they will beat SA today.

Quote from director of ticketing and marketing for the WC on tickets not arriving.

“We are seeing absolutely peanuts numbers of those sort of people (whose tickets are not arriving) and Ticketmaster tell us it is absolutely normal for some tickets to be lost,”

So they're using a company who seem to accept they will lose tickets. But he didn't know this could happen. Quite apart from the startling English.

The usual panglossian UK cricket administer. who inspires little confidence.

And there's the usual missed opportunity with it not being on terrestrial tv.

Tahir gets bairstow for a duck

Great recovery. Including from your boy, Sussex...

Rubbish commentary from BBC (Tuffers and Aggers). Every four is passed without comment. Every mishit (and the wicket) is questioned regarding whether they really should be just waiting and seeing for the next five overs for whichever reason is to hand. What I think of as the Nasser Hussain reasoning.

So Archer starts and Wood misses out. I guess thy'll rotate the bowlers but I expect this is the side that England see as their first choice.

100 partnership in 17 overs.

Roy gets a half-century, and gets out....

Looks like the scoring had been slowing a little.

Root does the same....51 and our, rabada strikes

I am here.

Morgs putting on the boosters, so England not suffering for the loss of Root and Stokes. Still on for a big score.