Your news blast from Round The Stumps’ latest Power Play Podcast: Alyssa Healy calls time on her career, Bangladesh have boycotted the 2026 Men’s ICC T20 World Cup and England will take on India in the U19s World Cup final.
Having gone through the competition lossless, India fell at the final hurdle to give Australia honours as the 2023 ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Champions.
India and Australia ended the group stages in great form and have progressed into the final of the 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup, leaving New Zealand and South Africa wondering how it slipped away.
Despite late upsets, the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup has gone the way RTS predicted at the halfway stage, as the slightly anticlimactic final games of the group stages played out.
The penultimate group round of the 2023 ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup left the final semi final spot open, and three teams eligible to claim it with one game remaining for each of the ten World Cup squads.
The controversial wicket of Angelo Mathews in the Sri Lanka versus Bangladesh ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup game has brought into discussion the ‘spirit of cricket’. Although by the letter of the law Mathews was timed out, was it the right decision to take his wicket, or did Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan force the umpire’s hand?
First eliminations and confirmed qualifications came as a result of the seventh round of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup. RTS rates the team performances and explains who is still eligible for the final three places in the semi finals after hosts India secure their spot.
Three games remain for each of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup teams, and with some still struggling to find form the top four is starting to look confirmed. RTS takes an in-depth look at the ten squads performances in round six to see what they need to do to make it into the semi finals.
Going into the latter half of the group stage for the 2023 ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup, the teams in contention for qualification are starting to look set. RTS analyses the latest performances from the ten contending teams as the first to be eliminated seem clear.
Approaching the halfway point of the group stages, RTS looks at who may be facing early relegation and which teams will be fighting for the final qualification spots.
