2023 ICC World Cup Trivia

1. What country hosted the 2023 ICC World cup?

From Quiz One Fine One-Day

Answer: India

India were the host nation for the 13th edition of the competition, which started on 5 October and finished on 19 November. England and Wales were cohosts in 2019, with South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia planning to cohost the 2027 competition. The tournament was structured in two parts: the group stage, a round-robin competition in which all teams played each of the others, followed by a knockout involving the top four teams at the end of the group stage. The group stage also served to select the teams that would qualify to compete in the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy, for which only the host nation (Pakistan) and the top seven of the other teams in the 2023 World Cup will qualify directly. Matches were played in ten different cities: Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Dharamshala, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai and Pune.

From Quiz One Fine One-Day

Answer: 10 & ten

The number of teams involved, and hence the structure of the competition, has varied over the years. In 2015, for example, there were 14 teams, who were divided into two pools from which the top four progressed to the knockout stage. In 2009 there were 16 teams, and a complex structure that started with four groups, from whom the top eight moved to another round-robin stage (with results against the other team from the same group carrying through) before the knockout stage was reached. The smaller number of teams in 2023 allowed all teams to play each other in the round robin stage while still keeping the total number of matches to the 40-50 range that was considered ideal for the competition. The qualification process involved a series of stages. First, the host nation is automatically qualified. Then the other twelve teams who are Full Members of the ICC were ranked based on their performance against each other between July 2020 and May 2023 (called the Super League) with the top seven qualifying. The bottom five went into competition with the top three Associate Members and the top two teams of a qualifier playoff involving the rest of the 32 current members of the ICC. The upshot of all this was that the West Indies (who won the first two editions of the competition) missed qualifying for the first time in the history of the World Cup. The ten teams that participated in the 2023 World Cup were: Host Nation: India Super League Top 7: Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, England, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa Qualifiers: Netherlands, Sri Lanka

From Quiz One Fine One-Day

Answer: Glenn Maxwell

This was one of the closest results of the tournament, with the two teams' prospects of winning swinging wildly during the match. Afghanistan batted first, and opening batsman Ibrahim Zadran scored 129 runs, becoming the first Afghani to score a century in a World Cup match. The team finished with 291 runs, a reasonable but not amazing score that presented a target for the much more highly-ranked Australians that commentators expected them to reach comfortably. However, the Afghan bowlers, led by Rashid Khan, made life interesting, to say the least. After David Warner was out for 18 and Josh Inglis was dismissed on the next ball, Glenn Maxwell faced the hat trick ball with the score on 49, and four players already out. Three more players were retired before captain Pat Cummins joined Maxwell at the crease with the score on 91. That is when the fireworks started - partly because Maxwell is a player who naturally goes for big shots, and partly because he started to experience back pain (an ongoing injury) and cramps (from the heat) which at one point had him barely able to stand. Hence, he relied on hitting the ball to the boundary, getting an automatic 4 or 6 runs without having to actually run anywhere, until he had a chance to recover. By the time he hit a six to give Australia a two-run victory with only 19 balls remaining, Cummins had scored 12 runs - his major contribution having been to not get out on the few balls he had to face. As a result of this victory, Australia secured a place in the knockout stage.

From Quiz One Fine One-Day

Answer: Missed the finals, but qualified for the 2025 Champions Trophy with 3 wins from 9 games

In 2015, they had been eliminated during the group stage of the competition, a performance that they more or less duplicated in 2023. This was surprising, as they had been highly successful in the leadup, finishing second to New Zealand in the Super League table. It was India who finished on top, with 9 wins in 9 matches. With the last round of the group stage still to play, England had clearly missed the knockout stage, with 2 wins in their first 8 games. There were four teams still trying to avoid a bottom-two finish - England, Sri Lanka, Bangla Desh and the Netherlands - so the final round became tension-filled for their supporters. In the final round of matches, New Zealand beat Sri Lanka, South Africa beat Afghanistan, Australia beat Bangladesh, England beat Pakistan, and India beat the Netherlands. The two teams, therefore, who did not finish in the top eight and qualify directly for the 2025 Champions Trophy tournament were Sri Lanka and the Netherlands.

From Quiz One Fine One-Day

Answer: Virat Kohli, from India

These were four of the top five scorers over the 45 matches (9 games for each team) of the group stage. Since that is the time when all players have had the same number of matches available (Assuming they were selected for all of the group matches), some fans consider this a more meaningful point to note who had scored the most runs. Virat Kohli compiled 594 runs, Quinton de Kock 591, Rachin Ravindra 565, Rohit Sharma 503 and Australian David Warner 499. By the end of the competition, in which Ravindra and De Kock played one more match, and the others two, the final result saw Virat Kohli with 765 as the top scorer.

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