20 November 2021
Jeremiah Harrison
Sports Reporter
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced that Zimbabwe will co-host the 50 Overs Cricket World Cup in 2027.
The World Cup will be played in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Namibia.
The announcement was made Ast Tuesday in South Africa.
The President of Zimbabwe his excellence Cde. Dr. E.D Mnangagwa confirmed on his tweeter.
“The ICC cricket world cup is coming to Zimbabwe. South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe will officially host the 2027 Men’s World Cup. This is the first the SADC will hold a global cricket tournament.” Mnangagwa tweeted.
Zimbabwe has made nine appearances at the Cricket World Cup, this is the second time that Zimbabwe hosts the Cricket World Cup after successfully hosting 2003 edition of the global tournament alongside Kenya and South Africa.
In June 2024 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup is going to be in the Americas. United States of America and West Indies will host the tournament.
Eight months later, in February 2025 Pakistan will host Men’s Champions Trophy. This is the major Cricket Tournament to be played in Pakistan since 1996 when the Asians co-hosted the World Cup in collaboration with India and Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, as a co-host of the 1996 World Cup, was the first host to win the tournament, though the final was held in Pakistan.
India won in 2011 as host and was the first team to win a final played in their own country.
Australia and England repeated the feat in 2015 and 2019 respectively. Other than this, England made it to the final hosts in 1979.
Other countries which have achieved or equalled their best World Cup results while co-hosting the tournament are New Zealand as finalists in 2015, Zimbabwe who reached the Super Six in 2003, and Kenya as semi-finalists in 2003.
In 2026 , India and Sri Lanka will host Men’s T20 World Cup before another first-time event host in 2027.
In October and November Namibia of 2027 will host the Men’s Cricket World Cup for the first time alongside South Africa and Zimbabwe.
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