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Cricket World Cup qualification
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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.

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History

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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.

For the 2023 World Cup, only the host nation qualified automatically. 32 teams were 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 determined 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.

Qualification berths

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Notes
  1. Berths were given by invitation only.
  2. Includes all teams that entered qualification, even if they withdrew or were excluded afterwards or qualified by walkover. Does not include pre-determined automatic qualifiers.
  3. 2 teams were participated in qualification, and were not eligible to enter the final compitition, as they were not a member of ICC.(South Africa Country Districts, ECB England XI)
  4. Only includes teams that played at least one qualifying match that was not annulled.
  5. India were qualified as host, but they also participated in qualification.

First appearance in qualification by team

Only teams that played at least one match are considered for first appearance. Teams that withdrew before the qualification, or that qualified to the World Cup by walkover due to other teams' withdrawals, are not considered.

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Teams' entries before their actual debuts in qualification
  1. Participated in the 1975 World Cup by invitation.
  2. Participated in the 1975 World Cup by invitation, 1979 to 2015 World Cups as Full member.
  3. Participated in the 1992 to 2015 World Cups as Full member.
Successor and renamed teams
  1. East Africa was renamed as East and Central Africa.
  2. Wales currently completes with England under the name of England.
Other notes
  1. [N 1]
    Team now defunct.
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Team performances

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

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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
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