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Pakistan to play India on October 14

Pakistan agree to World Cup schedule change, and is set to play India on October 14 and will play Sri Lanka on October 10 instead of October 12, to have enough of a gap before the match against India.

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What happened

The original ICC schedule was released setting the India-Pakistan game on October 15.

According to ESPNcricinfo, PCB has agreed to the change the date to October 14, and the venue will be unchanged, which is in Ahmedabad.

The date change for the World Cup’s biggest clash has an impact on Pakistan’s preceding fixture, against Sri Lanka in Hyderabad. This match will be on October 10 instead of October 12, allowing Pakistan a sufficient gap between the two matches.

Reason for the change of fixtures

Hindu festival of Navaratri is the main reason for the change in the schedule, as the local police were concerned on the security with two huge events taking place on the same day with the India-Pakistan fixture.

The ICC wrote to the PCB a few days ago about the changes and the PCB agreed.

BCCI claimed the opposite cause of the fixture’s change

BCCI secretary Jay Shah, however, had said the clash with Navaratri wasn’t the reason for the change. He said last week that several Full Member countries had requested changes to the World Cup schedule and that several tweaks would be made.

The change of the India-Pakistan date will almost certainly have an impact on other games and teams. October 14 is already a double-header, featuring games between Bangladesh and New Zealand in Chennai and Afghanistan and England in Delhi. The latter game is likely to be affected, potentially played a day earlier (October 13).

The changes to the schedule, two months away from the ODI World Cup, come after the original schedule was already extremely delayed. It was finally released by the BCCI and the ICC at the end of June just 100 days before the start of the tournament. In comparison, the fixtures for the 2019 World Cup in England and Wales and the 2015 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand were released more than 12 months in advance.

The tournament is scheduled to begin on October 5, with reigning champions England taking on New Zealand in Ahmedabad, but the ICC and the BCCI have also not yet announced when match tickets will go on sale.