Kolkata,
\nIndia will open their 2019 World Cup campaign against South Africa on June 5 and square off against arch-rivals Pakistan on June 16, a senior BCCI official told PTI on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The 2019 World Cup will be held in the UK from May 30 to July 14 and India will start on June 5 as the BCCI will have to maintain a mandatory 15-day gap between the IPL final and international assignment as per the Lodha Committee recommendations.<\/p>\n
The matter was discussed during the ICC Chief Executives Meeting here today.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 2019 IPL will be played between March 29 and May 19. But we need to maintain a 15-day gap and World Cup starts on May 30. Therefore as per a 15-day gap, we could have only played on June 5. Earlier, we were scheduled to start on June 2 but we couldn\u2019t have played on that day,\u201d a senior BCCI official present here told PTI on conditions of anonymity.<\/p>\n
\u201cSouth Africa are our first opponents. The CEC agreed and the matter has been referred to the ICC board,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The clash against Pakistan will take place on June 16 in Manchester. India have never lost to Pakistan in a World Cup.<\/p>\n
Interestingly, ICC, in their various marquee events, have started with an Indo-Pak fixture in the past which is almost always a sell-out. It happened in the 2015 World Cup in Australia (at Adelaide) and the 2017 Champions Trophy in UK .<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the first time an Indo-Pak match won\u2019t be a starting affair. Since the format will be a round robin affair ,\u201d the official added.<\/p>\n
Other decisions that were formalised included the FTP for the next five-year cycle from 2019-23.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs we had decided, India will play a maximum 309 days of international cricket in this cycle across formats, a reduction of 92 days from the earlier cycle.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever the number of home Test matches will increase from 15 to 19. All these Tests will be part of the World Test Championship,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
It was also confirmed that India will not play any Day\/Night Test match for now as it\u2019s not a part of the World Test Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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