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Zimbabwe will host World Cup 2023 Qualifier in a new look qualification process


The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced a new look qualification process for the 2023 ODI World Cup, to be held in India in October- November 2023. The qualifiers, originally supposed to be held in India, have now been moved to Zimbabwe and will take place between June 18 and July 9, 2023. 

Along with this decision, ICC also announced the process through which the qualification would take place. Among the 12 teams that are part of the Cricket World Cup Super League, which began in May 2020, seven, along with India, the hosts, will qualify directly on the basis of the points secured while the remaining four would go to a qualifier. 

In the qualifier, they would be joined by three Cricket World Cup League 2 teams, which would be decided after 21 tri-series events including 96 ODIS, to be played among seven teams throughout the course of 2021, 2022, and early 2023. 

The four remaining teams from League 2 would get another shot at the qualifier when they would play the winners of the men's CWC Challenge League A  and B which will take place in August and September next year. 

In League A, Canada will host Denmark, Malaysia, Qatar, Singapore, and Vanuatu in a total of 15 games. Challenge League B will be held in Jersey with Bermuda, Hong Kong, Italy, Kenya, and Uganda, competing in 15 matches. 

In total, over anyear from August 2021 to September 2022, 60 games would be played in these two leagues which would have the status of List A tournaments. 

"After the 21 tri-series in League 2 have been completed, the top three teams will confirm their place in the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup Qualifier 2023. The bottom four teams will drop into the Men's Cricket World Cup Qualifier Play-Off 2023 - which is a repechage event to the Global Qualifier - and will be joined by the winner of Challenge League A and B,” an ICC release read. 

Saying that the rescheduling of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 from March-April to October-November gave the ICC a fair window to organize the qualifiers, Chris Tetley, Head of Events of ICC, added, “We have worked very closely with members and stakeholders to reschedule 96 ODIs and 60 List-A matches and will continue to maintain the safety of participants in our events as our highest priority."

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