The ICC World Cup 2027 will be hosted by three countries in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia. The tournament will be played in October and November and as planned in recent World Cuppromises to be even more exciting and fascinating.
It will be the second time in history that South Africa and Zimbabwe will host the ICC World Cup, having done the same in 2003. However, it will be the first time that Namibia will have the opportunity to host the tournament, which for the first time since In 2003, 14 teams will participate.
As for South Africa’s venues, eight stadiums have been confirmed to host the ICC World Cup 2027: Wanderers in Johannesburg, Centurion Park in Pretoria, Kingsmead in Durban, St George’s Park in Gqeberha, Boland Park in Paarl and Newlands in Cape Town . They will be the main places.
While Mangaung Oval in Bloemfontein and Buffalo Park in east London will also host some ICC World Cup matches. With venues in South Africa offering help for both batsmen and bowlers, it will be one of the best editions of the tournament.
Cricket South Africa CEO Pholetsi Moseki spoke about the selection of venues and said that in addition to the venues, they had to take care of hotel rooms and the availability of an airport. Speaking to News 24, he explained:
“The exercise [of choosing the grounds] It was scientific and also included the number of hotel rooms and the availability of an airport. “If there was disappointment, it was also tempered by the reality that was based on the chosen locations.”
Pholetsi Moseki, CEO of Cricket South Africa, further stated that it was difficult for them to let go of three venues in Benoni, JB Marks Oval and Diamond Oval, but they have to make some decisions after consideration. Speaking about the challenges, he stated:
“In fact we have 11 ICC accredited venues so it was difficult to leave out three, but a lot was taken into account. There is also the important issue of training venues outside of those available locally.”
Qualification scenario for the ICC World Cup 2027
Hosts South Africa and Zimbabwe have directly qualified for the ICC World Cup 2027. While the top 8 teams in the ICC ODI rankings will advance further to the tournament. The four remaining teams in the event will have to go through the qualification phase to reach the tournament.
Namibia, Netherlands, Scotland, UAE, USA, Nepal and Oman are the teams that will compete against each other in the L2 World Cup. The teams will play 36 ODIs spread across nine triangular series, from now until December 2026. The top four teams from L2 will go to the qualifier, which will be a ten-team event. The top four teams from the CWC L2 and the top four teams from the World Cup qualifying playoffs will participate. Of these ten teams, the first four advance to the World Cup.