Cricket’s biggest carnival returns to the UK for the first time in 20 years as 11 venues across England and Wales stage the 2019 edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup, with every match exclusively live on Sky Sports and daily free-to-air highlights on Channel 4.
Ten countries compete in one-day international cricket’s biggest showpiece, starting with hosts and tournament favourites England taking on South Africa on 30 May at The Oval, with all teams playing each other in a full round-robin format for the first time in the competition since 1992.
The top four teams progress to the semi-finals to be staged at Old Trafford and Edgbaston and they will determine who plays in the prestigious final at Lord’s on 14 July, which it is hoped will provide the fitting culmination to the 46-day tournament.
England will be expecting to fare much better on home soil after a World Cup to forget four years ago in Australia and New Zealand, when they won just two of their six group matches. Eoin Morgan’s men will pit their number one ranked side against the very best, including a pre-Ashes clash against Australia on June 25 at Lord’s.
The ICC’s premier 50-over tournament has favoured host nations in recent years, with India triumphing in 2011 and Australia in 2015, so the precedent, as well as the pressure, is there for the 2019 hosts, who were knocked out in the group stage in the competition’s previous visit to the UK in 1999.
While the reduction to a 10-team format attracted criticism from cricket’s non-Test playing nations, it means that nearly all of the teams entering have a realistic chance of lifting the famous trophy.
Australia have won four of the past five 50-over World Cups, India are the second best-ranked side in the world and have one of the greatest modern day batsmen in captain Virat Kohli, while their fierce rivals Pakistan, who they play in a highly-anticipated fixture on 16 June, won the ICC Champions Trophy in the UK in 2017 and often peak in tournaments.
Two-time winners West Indies have the ability to post huge totals, and both South Africa and New Zealand have enough quality to take the title after a number of near misses, while Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan will provide a strong threat to the top-ranked nations.
Despite the lack of live free-to-air coverage of the tournament in UK, it is hoped that the 2019 Cricket World Cup will attract new fans to the sport, with organisers saying that 95% of 800,000 available tickets have been sold, a third of which will be new to cricket, while 150,000 tickets are held by women and children and some 250,000 have been purchased by south east Asian fans.
Experience the emotion, the jubilation, the pain and sheer brilliance from all 48 matches of the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup across England and Wales this June and July.
Every game will be broadcast exclusively live on Sky Sports’ dedicated Cricket World Cup channel, while Channel 4 returns to the sport for the first time since its acclaimed 2005 Ashes coverage. It will show nightly highlights of every match throughout the tournament.
Scroll down for further details of Sky Sports and Channel 4’s 2019 Cricket World Cup coverage, including a complete fixture list and TV guide.
For more information about the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup, including latest news, live scorecards and video, visit cricketworldcup.com.
Sky Sports is the only place to watch all 48 matches exclusively live from the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019, forming part of a huge summer of cricket for the broadcaster with the Ashes series following in August.
The Sky Sports Cricket channel will become Sky Sports Cricket World Cup on May 30, when hosts England open the tournament against South Africa at The Oval, with subscribers able to watch every ball of every match live and exclusive on Sky channel 404, with additional coverage via the Red Button for simultaneous matches.
The regular Sky Sports team will have an on-site presence at 12 games during the tournament, including all nine England games in the league stage, plus the grudge match between India and Pakistan at Old Trafford on 16 June, as well as both semi-finals and the final in July.
Ian Ward will be the main presenter of Sky Sports’ coverage of these selected matches, with guests including former England captain Andrew Strauss, as well as Australian spin bowling legend Shane Warne and former England batsman Rob Key.
For all 48 games played over the 46-day tournament, Sky Sports will be taking the world feed match coverage provided by ICC TV, produced by the award-winning Sunset+Vine team, with its international team of commentators including Sky Sports regulars Michael Atherton, Nasser Husain, Isa Guha, Michael Holding and Ian Ward.
The last man to lift the men’s Cricket World Cup, Michael Clarke, will be making his ICC TV commentary debut on the 2019 tournament, and he’ll be alongside some of the game’s most respected figures, including Ian Bishop, Sourav Ganguly, Kumar Sangakkara, Brendon McCullum, Graeme Smith, Wasim Akram and Shaun Pollock.
Other familiar names who will commentate through the tournament include Mark Nicholas, Mel Jones, Alison Mitchell, Michael Slater, Pommie Mbangwa, Sanjay Manjrekar, Harsha Bhogle, Simon Doull, Ian Smith, Ramiz Raja and Athar Ali Khan.
ICC TV coverage promises to deliver state-of-the-art coverage of the event which will include a minimum of 32 cameras at every game, including Spidercam, the ground-level roving Buggy Cam and the Batcam drone camera which will provide stunning visuals of all venues across England and Wales.
For the first time at an ICC Cricket World Cup, the broadcast will produce 360° replays, provided by Piero, which allows multiple camera feeds to be stitched together to create stunning video that helps provide in-depth analysis of big moments in the game, while coverage will also be complemented with a variety of analytical and visual enhancements including Player Tracking, Hawk-Eye and CricViz statistics.
Excluding for the 12 matches were its usual presenting team will be in place, Sky Sports will the take the entire ICC TV coverage for all remaining matches, with a live build-up show starting half an hour before the start of play, plus extensive post-match reaction.
Complimenting Sky Sports’ live coverage will be daily highlights shows every evening at 8pm (except day/night fixtures), World Cup Debate programmes hosted by Charles Colvile and Bob Willis and World Cup Bitesize, which offers a short 15-minute breakdown of the day’s play.
Sky TV subscribers with Sky Sports Cricket can follow every twist and turn via theSky Go app, while Sky Sports’ online platform –skysports.com/cricket– will be home to live blogs for every match, as well as news, videos, analysis and the insight of the Sky cricket pundits throughout the tournament.
The Cricket World Cup is part of a huge summer of cricket on Sky Sports, which also includes exclusive live coverage of the Ashes, the Women’s Ashes, as well as the Vitality Blast and County Championship.
Cricket returns to Channel 4 this summer for the first time in 14 years after the free-to-air broadcaster secured a late deal to show highlights of the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup in England and Wales.
The highlights programmes will be the only terrestrial offering for cricket fans during the tournament, though they will all air in a late-night slot, usually on or after 11pm.
Former England women’s cricketer Isa Guha will present Channel 4’s coverage, which will start with action from the opening match of the tournament between hosts England and South Africa at The Oval, and concludes with the final at Lord’s on 14 July.
Independent sports production company Sunset+Vine, who are the ICC’s host broadcasters for the 2019 Cricket World Cup and produced Channel 4’s BAFTA award-winning coverage from 1999 to 2005, will be responsible for both the documentary and highlights of the 2019 tournament for Channel 4.
In addition to Cricket World Cup highlights, Channel 4 will also show a special one-off documentary detailing England’s remarkable Ashes-winning performance in 2005, a series which captivated the nation and was broadcast live throughout that memorable summer on Channel 4 to audiences in excess of six million viewers.
The documentary will feature key figures from that memorable Ashes clash including England captain Michael Vaughan, Kevin Pietersen and Australia’s spin wizard Shane Warne.
It will also be available to watch again on-demand via All 4 shortly after broadcast, as will Channel 4’s nightly Cricket World Cup highlights shows.
THURSDAY 30th MAY
ENGLAND v SOUTH AFRICA Match 1 – The Oval
10:30
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FRIDAY 31st MAY
WEST INDIES v PAKISTAN Match 2 – Trent Bridge
10:30
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SATURDAY 1st JUNE
NEW ZEALAND v SRI LANKA Match 3 – Cardiff
10:30
AFGHANISTAN v AUSTRALIA Match 4 – Bristol
13:30
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SUNDAY 2nd JUNE
SOUTH AFRICA v BANGLADESH Match 5 – The Oval
10:30
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MONDAY 3rd JUNE
ENGLAND v PAKISTAN Match 6 – Trent Bridge
10:30
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TUESDAY 4th JUNE
AFGHANISTAN v SRI LANKA Match 7 – Cardiff
10:30
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WEDNESDAY 5th JUNE
SOUTH AFRICA v INDIA Match 8 – Southampton
10:30
BANGLADESH v NEW ZEALAND Match 9 – The Oval
13:30
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THURSDAY 6th JUNE
AUSTRALIA v WEST INDIES Match 10 – Trent Bridge
10:30
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FRIDAY 7th JUNE
PAKISTAN v SRI LANKA Match 11 – Bristol
10:30
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SATURDAY 8th JUNE
ENGLAND v BANGLADESH Match 12 – Cardiff
10:30
AFGHANISTAN v NEW ZEALAND Match 13 – Taunton
13:30
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SUNDAY 9th JUNE
INDIA v AUSTRALIA Match 14 – The Oval
10:30
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MONDAY 10th JUNE
SOUTH AFRICA v WEST INDIES Match 15 – Southampton
10:30
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TUESDAY 11th JUNE
BANGLADESH v SRI LANKA Match 16 – Bristol
10:30
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WEDNESDAY 12th JUNE
AUSTRALIA v PAKISTAN Match 17 – Taunton
10:30
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THURSDAY 13th JUNE
INDIA v NEW ZEALAND Match 18 – Nottingham
10:30
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FRIDAY 14th JUNE
ENGLAND v WEST INDIES Match 19 – Southampton
10:30
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SATURDAY 15th JUNE
SRI LANKA v AUSTRALIA Match 20 – The Oval
10:30
SOUTH AFRICA v AFGHANISTAN Match 21 – Cardiff
13:30
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SUNDAY 16th JUNE
INDIA v PAKISTAN Match 22 – Old Trafford
10:30
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MONDAY 17th JUNE
WEST INDIES v BANGLADESH Match 23 – Taunton
10:30
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TUESDAY 18th JUNE
ENGLAND v AFGHANISTAN Match 24 – Old Trafford
10:30
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WEDNESDAY 19th JUNE
NEW ZEALAND v SOUTH AFRICA Match 25 – Edgbaston
10:30
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THURSDAY 20th JUNE
AUSTRALIA v BANGLADESH Match 26 – Trent Bridge
10:30
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FRIDAY 21st JUNE
ENGLAND v SRI LANKA Match 27 – Headingley
10:30
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SATURDAY 22nd JUNE
INDIA v AFGHANISTAN Match 28 – Southampton
10:30
WEST INDIES v NEW ZEALAND Match 29 – Old Trafford
13:30
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SUNDAY 23rd JUNE
PAKISTAN v SOUTH AFRICA Match 30 – Lord’s
10:30
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MONDAY 24th JUNE
BANGLADESH v AFGHANISTAN Match 31 – Southampton
10:30
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TUESDAY 25th JUNE
ENGLAND v AUSTRALIA Match 32 – Lord’s
10:30
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WEDNESDAY 26th JUNE
NEW ZEALAND v PAKISTAN Match 33 – Edgbaston
10:30
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THURSDAY 27th JUNE
WEST INDIES v INDIA Match 34 – Old Trafford
10:30
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FRIDAY 28th JUNE
SRI LANKA v SOUTH AFRICA Match 35 – Chester-le-Street
10:30
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SATURDAY 29th JUNE
PAKISTAN v AFGHANISTAN Match 36 – Headingley
10:30
NEW ZEALAND v AUSTRALIA Match 37 – Lord’s
13:30
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SUNDAY 30th JUNE
ENGLAND v INDIA Match 38 – Edgbaston
10:30
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MONDAY 1st JULY
SRI LANKA v WEST INDIES Match 39 – Chester-le-Street
10:30
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TUESDAY 2nd JULY
BANGLADESH v INDIA Match 40 – Edgbaston
10:30
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WEDNESDAY 3rd JULY
ENGLAND v NEW ZEALAND Match 41 – Chester-le-Street
10:30
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THURSDAY 4th JULY
AFGHANISTAN v WEST INDIES Match 42 – Headingley
10:30
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FRIDAY 5th JULY
PAKISTAN v BANGLADESH Match 43 – Lord’s
10:30
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SATURDAY 6th JULY
SRI LANKA v INDIA Match 44 – Headingley
10:30
AUSTRALIA v SOUTH AFRICA Match 45 – Old Trafford
13:30
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TUESDAY 9th JULY
1st GROUP STAGE v 4th GROUP STAGE Semi-Final 1 – Old Trafford
10:30
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THURSDAY 11th JULY
2nd GROUP STAGE v 3rd GROUP STAGE Semi-Final 2 – Edgbaston
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