Cricket thriller- The 2019 schedule of the ICC accelerated in various mega events including the one-day World Cup, the IPL, the Ashes series. As a result, cricket fans will be seen in a thrilling year in 2019. Let’s take a look at mega events.
ICC Cricket World Cup
Undoubtedly, in 2019, the biggest one-day tournament in the World Cup…A total of 10 teams will participate in this tournament to be held in England. Ireland and Zimbabwe have not been able to play in this year’s tournament because of cutting the team’s number. On the other hand, the West Indies and Afghanistan have qualified from the qualifying round for the rankings because of their low ranking, this year’s World Cup. After 1999, the Cricket World Cup has returned to the ground in England.
Most of the seven lakh tickets of this year’s total of 11 venues in 10 different cities have already been sold online. The fans that are going to start the tournament from May 30, speculation about the cricket team are going on. However, most favorite cricket team in this world cup is England. This is the last World Cup for legends like Dale Steyn, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Lasith Malinga, Shoaib Malik, Mashrafee Mortaza, Marlon Samuels and Hashim Amla. Who will be the World Cup trophy in their hands, wait until the final of July 14 to know it.
Test cricket in 2019
The historic Ashes will be held this year between Australia and England. After the World Cup, England will play against Australia in the Ashes to recover from their home on August 1. England, who lost 4-0 in the 2017-18 series in Australia, will be desperate to win the series. Visitors of the world will have eyes for this test series.
The ICC Test Championship is going to start this year as well. The best 9-in-Test teams will play 27 series in each of the two-year championships. Because of the importance of each match in the league-based championship, the cricket world will see an interesting fight. This new tournament will start with the fight between India and the West Indies in July.
In addition to the 50-over cricket tournament in the cooperative countries, women will be available in 2019 with the selection and preparation of the 2020 T20 World Cup.
SQUADS FOR ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP 2019
1. Afghanistan Squad,
2. Australia Squad,
3. Bangladesh Squad,
4. England Squad,
5. India Squad,
6. New Zealand Squad,
7. Pakistan Squad,
8. South Africa Squad,
9. Sri Lanka Squad,
10. Windies Squad
Afghanistan Squad
BATSMEN
Noor Ali Zadran, Hazratullah Zazai, Asghar Afghan, Hashmatullah Shahidi, Najibullah Zadran
ALL ROUNDER
Rahmat Shah (Batting Allrounder)
Samiullah Shenwari (Batting Allrounder)
Gulbadin Naib (Captain) (Bowling Allrounder)
Mohammad Nabi (Bowling Allrounder)
WICKET KEEPER
Mohammad Shahzad (Keeper)
BOWLER
Rashid Khan, Rashid Khan, Dawlat Zadran, Aftab Alam, Hamid Hassan, Mujeeb Ur Rahman
Australia Squad
BATSMEN
Aaron Finch (Captain), David Warner, Usman Khawaja, Steven Smith, Shaun Marsh
ALL ROUNDER
Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis
WICKET KEEPER
Alex Carey (Keeper)
BOWLER
Kane Richardson, Pat Cummins, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Mitchell Starc, Jason Behrendorff, Adam Zampa, Nathan Lyon
Bangladesh Squad
BATSMEN
Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar, Sabbir Rahman
ALL ROUNDER
Mahmudullah, Mohammad Saifuddin, Mosaddek Hossain, Shakib Al Hasan, Mehidy Hasan
WICKET KEEPER
Liton Das (Keeper), Mushfiqur Rahim (Keeper), Mohammad Mithun
BOWLER
Mashrafe Mortaza (Captain), Rubel Hossain, Mustafizur Rahman, Abu Jayed
England Squad
BATSMEN
Eoin Morgan (Captain), Jason Roy, Joe Root, James Vince
ALL ROUNDER
Ben Stokes, Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes, Tom Curran, Liam Dawson, Jofra Archer
WICKET KEEPER
Jonny Bairstow, Jos Buttler (Keeper)
BOWLER
Liam Plunkett, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood
India Squad
BATSMEN
Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli (Captain)
ALL ROUNDER
Vijay Shankar, Hardik Pandya, Kedar Jadhav, Ravindra Jadeja
WICKET KEEPER
Lokesh Rahul, MS Dhoni (Keeper), Dinesh Karthik (Keeper)
BOWLER
Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yuzvendra Chahal
New Zealand Squad
BATSMEN
Kane Williamson (Captain), Martin Guptill, Ross Taylor
ALL ROUNDER
Colin de Grandhomme, Colin Munro, James Neesham, Mitchell Santner
WICKET KEEPER
Tom Blundell (Keeper), Tom Latham (Keeper), Henry Nicholls
BOWLER
Trent Boult, Lockie Ferguson, Matt Henry, Tim Southee, Ish Sodhi
Pakistan Squad
BATSMEN
Fakhar Zaman, Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam, Asif Ali
ALL ROUNDER
Shoaib Malik, Mohammad Hafeez, Haris Sohail, Shadab Khan, Imad Wasim
WICKET KEEPER
Sarfaraz Ahmed (Captain) (Keeper)
BOWLER
Shaheen Afridi, Hasan Ali, Mohammad Hasnain, Wahab Riaz, Mohammad Amir
South Africa Squad
BATSMEN
Faf du Plessis (Captain), David Miller, Aiden Markram, Hashim Amla, Rassie van der Dussen
ALL ROUNDER
Jean-Paul Duminy, Andile Phehlukwayo, Dwaine Pretorius, Chris Morris
WICKET KEEPER
Quinton de Kock (Keeper)
BOWLER
Kagiso Rabada, Lungi Ngidi, Imran Tahir, Dale Steyn, Tabraiz Shamsi
Sri Lanka Squad
BATSMEN
Dimuth Karunaratne (Captain), Avishka Fernando, Lahiru Thirimanne
ALL ROUNDER
Angelo Mathews, Dhananjaya de Silva, Isuru Udana, Milinda Siriwardana, Thisara Perera, Jeevan Mendis
WICKET KEEPER
Kusal Perera (Keeper), Kusal Mendis
BOWLER
Jeffrey Vandersay, Lasith Malinga, Suranga Lakmal, Nuwan Pradeep
Windies Squad
BATSMEN
Chris Gayle, Evin Lewis, Darren Bravo, Shimron Hetmyer
ALL ROUNDER
Ashley Nurse, Fabian Allen, Andre Russell, Carlos Brathwaite, Jason Holder (Captain)
WICKET KEEPER
Nicholas Pooran (Keeper), Shai Hope
BOWLER
Kemar Roach, Oshane Thomas, Shannon Gabriel, Sheldon Cottrell
