Not just one, there will be 3 matches between India and Pakistan in the 2027 ODI World Cup! ICC made a great plan

India vs Pakistan: In the last ODI World Cup of 2023, a match was seen between India and Pakistan. Pakistan team could not reach the semi-finals, due to which the second match was not possible. Now the International Cricket Council (ICC) has made a great plan for more matches between India and Pakistan in the upcoming 2027 ODI World Cup.

In fact, the cricket governing body has made some major changes in the format of the upcoming ODI and T20 World Cup in the Annual General Meeting (AGM) held in Edinburgh. Regarding the changes in the ODI World Cup, fans are claiming on social media that this has been done only to extend another match between India and Pakistan.

According to these changes, now the teams of India and Pakistan can play another match against each other even before the semi-finals. If both the teams clash in the semi-finals or finals, then there can be 3 matches between the two teams in the ODI World Cup.

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What changes happened?

14 teams will participate in the upcoming ODI World Cup. The super series will be played between three teams ranked 12th, 13th and 14th. The team that wins this will advance to the group stage.

Now 12 teams will be divided into 2 groups of 6-6, in which matches will be held under round-robin format.

After this, 3-3 teams from both the groups and the highest ranking team in both the groups will be advanced to Super-7.

In the Super-7 stage, matches will be held under round-robin format and the top-4 teams will qualify for the semi-finals. After this the semi-finals and finals will be played in the same old format.

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