Cricket World Cup 2019 will be played in the same format as the one in 1992

• All teams will play each other before the knockout stage.
• There will be 45 games in all, each team will play against the other nine at the league stage.
• This will be the most challenging World Cup looking at the format, Indian captain Virat Kohli said.

"This will probably the most challenging World Cup out of all the World Cups I have been part of looking at the format. The focus will be to play the best cricket we can play. If we do that, we will be on the right side of the result every time," Indian captain Virat Kohli told the media on Tuesday.

Kohli was referring to the Round Robin format of the tournament that will begin on May 30. All 10 teams will play each other once and the top four will enter the knockouts or semi finals.

This means a total of 45 matches will be played, with each team playing a total of nine matches before the knockout games.



The last time this format was tried in a cricket world cup was in 1992 in Australia. That was the first white balls were used in cricket and the players wore coloured jerseys. That was also the year South Africa was admitted back into international cricket after 21 years of boycott due to the apartheid.

The team from Pakistan led by the iconic Imran Khan, who is now the country's President, won the trophy that year, while the English team became the runner up.

Going into this tournament, India is one of the favourites. The team has topped the International Cricket Council's (ICC) one-day international rankings since the start of 2018, with victories against South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand since then other than one lost series against England.

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