The 13th edition of the Cricket World Cup, an ODI cricket competition held every four years between men's national teams and hosted by the International Cricket Council (ICC), will take place in 2023. India is hosting the event, which got underway on October 5 and is expected to end on November 19, 2023.

Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, and Sri Lanka are the ten participating national teams. The West Indies missed out on the event for the first time in their history as teams had to advance through the 2023 Cricket World Cup qualification process. The 2019 competition was won by England, who defeated New Zealand in the championship match.

India will be the only nation to host the men's Cricket World Cup; before, the event was co-hosted by other nations in the Indian subcontinent in 1987, 1996, and 2011. Ten difThe tournament was originally scheduled to take place from 9 February to 26 March 2023. In July 2020, it was revealed that the tournament would be shifted to October and November due to the COVID-19 pandemic's disruption of the qualification process. On June 27, 2023, the ICC made the tournament schedule public.

After the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) refused to send a team to the 2023 Asia Cup set for Pakistan, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) vowed to boycott the event.After the Asian Cricket Council declared that the competition would be hosted under a hybrid model suggested by the PCB, with nine of the league's 13 matches, this issue was settled in June 2023.ferent venues will host the competition. While the final will be staged in Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, the first and second semi-finals will take place at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai and Eden Gardens in Kolkata, respectively.

The prize money for the ICC World Cup 2023 is set at USD 4 million (about Rs 33 crore), with USD 2 million (roughly Rs 16 crore) going to the losers. Fans of cricket from all across the world are anticipating this action-packed World Cup because the stakes are so high. Watch for more details and intriguing matchups in this eagerly anticipated tournament. 

The Indian team consists of Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Mohammed Shami, and Hardik Pandya in addition to captain Rohit Sharma.India is ranked first in the ICC Men's ODI Team Rankings as of 25 September 2023 with a rating of 117 from 43 weighted matches, while Papua New Guinea is ranked last with a rating of 4 from 28 weighted matches.