World Cup 2023: ODI format faces existential question as tournament kicks off
FirstpostThe cricketing ecosystem and the calendar have developed and been disrupted so significantly in the last four years that what’s next for the ODI format and the World Cup is essentially unclear. On the eve of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023, all 10 skippers of the participating teams gathered at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad for the Captain’s Day, which in many ways also officially kicked off the latest edition of the world tournament. World Cup 2023: News | Schedule | Results | Points table Under normal circumstances, Captain’s Day would have been the toast of the town, dominating every news portal, social media, and our personal conversations. Since the last edition of the ODI World Cup in England and Wales in 2019, cricket has witnessed an unprecedented rise in T20 franchise cricket leagues just as the old ones keep getting bolder.