Cricket World Cup qualification

Cricket World Cup qualification is the process national cricket teams go through to qualify for the Cricket World Cup. The Cricket World Cup is a global event, and qualification is used to reduce the large field of participants from about 100 to 10–14. The qualification process has started as early as almost 7 years before the World Cup.

Qualification up to the 2019 World Cup

From the first World Cup in 1975 up to the 2019 World Cup, the majority of teams taking part qualified automatically. Until the 2015 World Cup this was mostly through having Full Membership of the ICC, and for the 2019 World Cup this was mostly through ranking position in the ICC ODI Championship.

Since the second World Cup in 1979 up to the 2019 World Cup, the teams that qualified automatically have been joined by a small number of others who qualified for the World Cup through the qualification process. The number of teams qualifying for the World Cup changed from event to event. The first qualifying tournament being the ICC Trophy;[1] later the process expanding with pre-qualifying tournaments. Pre-qualifying tournaments were held within the five ICC regional bodies (Africa, Americas, Asia, East Asia-Pacific, Europe), and organized by their respective councils.

For the 2011 World Cup onwards, the past pre-qualifying processes were replaced by the World Cricket League, administered by the ICC; and the ICC Trophy became known as the ICC World Cup Qualifier,[2] and this remained the culmination of the qualification process and became the final stage of the World Cricket League competition. The World Cricket League was a series of international one-day cricket tournaments for national teams without Test status. All Associate members of the ICC were able to qualify for the World Cup.

While 12 teams participated in the 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifier and the top 4 teams qualified for the 2011 Cricket World Cup, at the ICC Chief Executives' Committee meeting in September 2011, the ICC decided on a new qualifying format for the 2015 Cricket World Cup. Two teams from the top tier of the pre-qualifying tournament, the 2011–13 ICC World Cricket League Championship, qualified directly and did not compete in the 2014 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, which decided the remaining two places.[3][4]

For the 2019 World Cup, the host and the seven highest-ranked sides on the MRF Tyres ICC ODI Team Rankings as on 30 September 2017 qualified directly for the event proper. The four bottom-ranked sides were joined by six teams from the ICC World Cricket League in the 10-team ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier 2018, and the top two sides completed the 10-team World Cup line-up.

The teams that qualified automatically each time, and the performances of the other teams in the final qualifying tournament, are as follows.

World Cup: 1975 WC 1979 WC 1983 WC 1987 WC 1992 WC 1996 WC 1999 WC 2003 WC 2007 WC 2011 WC 2015 WC 2019 WC
Qualifying
Tournament:		 None 1979 ICC
Trophy		 1982 ICC
Trophy		 1986 ICC
Trophy		 1990 ICC
Trophy		 1994 ICC
Trophy		 1997 ICC
Trophy		 2001 ICC
Trophy		 2005 ICC
Trophy		 2009
WC
Qual		 2011
WCL
C'ship		 2014
WC
Qual		 2018
WC
Qual
Pre-Qualifying: 2007 Qual 2007–09 WCL 2009–14 WCL 2012–18 WCL
 Afghanistan5th2nd1st
 ArgentinaR1R1R1R121stR1
 AustraliaAuto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (R)
 BangladeshR14thR1SFR21stAuto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (R)
 BermudaSF2nd4thR14th9thR14th9th
 Canada2ndR1R1R2R27th3rd3rd2nd8th8th
 DenmarkSF3rdR2R15th6th8th12th
 East AfricaAuto (I)R1R1R1
 East and Central AfricaR118th17thR1
 EnglandAuto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (H)
 FijiR1R1R1R1R111thR1
 FranceR1
 GermanyR1
 GibraltarR1R1R120th=19thR1
 Hong KongR1R1R1R28thR13rd10th
 IndiaAuto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (R)
 IrelandR24th8th2nd1st1st5th
 IsraelR1R1R1R1R122ndR1
 Italy=19thR1
 KenyaR1R1SF2nd2ndAuto (O)Auto (O)4th6th5th
 MalaysiaR1R1R1R1R116thR1
 NamibiaR115th2nd7th8th7th6th
   NepalR19th8th
 NetherlandsR1R12nd2nd3rd6th1st5th3rd4th7th7th
 New ZealandAuto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (R)
 Oman9th11th
 PakistanAuto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (R)
 Papua New GuineaR13rdR1R2R113thR111th4th9th
 Scotland3rd4th1st6th5th1st4th
 SingaporeR1R1R119th14thR1
 South AfricaAuto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (R)
 Sri LankaAuto (I)1stAuto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (R)
 Uganda12th10th10th
 United Arab Emirates1st10th5th6th7th3rd2nd6th
 United StatesR1R1R1R2R112th7th10th
 WalesR1
 West AfricaR117th18thR1
 West IndiesAuto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)2nd
 Zimbabwe1st1st1stAuto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)Auto (F)3rd

Key:

Auto (F) Team qualified for Cricket World Cup automatically through having Full Membership of the ICC
Auto (H) Team qualified for Cricket World Cup automatically as Host
Auto (I) Team qualified for Cricket World Cup automatically by Invitation
Auto (O) Team qualified for Cricket World Cup automatically through having ODI Status
Auto (R) Team qualified for Cricket World Cup automatically by Ranking position in the ICC ODI Championship
Team qualified for Cricket World Cup through the Qualifying Tournament
R1/R2 Team reached First Round/Second Round in the Qualifying Tournament
SF Team reached Semi-Final in the Qualifying Tournament (no third-place play-off)
1st/2nd/etc Team finished 1st/2nd/etc in the Qualifying Tournament
Team failed to reach final Qualifying Tournament

Qualification from the 2023 World Cup onwards
Main article: 2023 Cricket World Cup Qualification

From the 2023 World Cup onwards, only the host nation(s) will qualify automatically. 32 teams are divided into three leagues—Super League, League 2 and Challenge League—each with different paths to World Cup qualification. The leagues and supplementary qualifier and play-off tournaments also determine promotion and relegation between the leagues from one World Cup cycle to the next.[5]

The fourth World Cricket League competition was used for the initial placement of teams into the leagues for the 2023 World Cup qualifying, and has now been abolished.

See also

References
  1. Cricinfo – 2005 ICC Trophy in Ireland
  2. World Cricket League Archived January 19, 2007, at the Wayback Machine World Cricket League Overview
  3. "Results of the ICC Chief Executives' Committee meeting in London". 12 September 2011. Archived from the original on 29 September 2011. Retrieved 13 September 2011.
  4. "ICC spells out 2015 WC qualification plan". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN Sports Media. 11 October 2011. Retrieved 11 October 2011.
  5. "ICC launches the road to India 2023". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
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