World Cup 2023 / Who will get the direct qualification ticket for the World Cup? 3 teams battle for a spot

Zoom News : Feb 03, 2023, 10:27 AM
World Cup 2023: The World Cup Super League is being organized for the qualification for the ODI World Cup to be held in India this year. Under this, the top 8 teams of the table will directly make it to the main round of the World Cup. The other five teams will play a qualification round with five associate nations and fight it out for a place in the main round. Talking about the current table of the World Cup Super League, the biggest threat is currently on the three big teams of the world. Where South Africa is in trouble even after winning the series from England, there is suspense of direct entry on former world champions Sri Lanka and West Indies.


3 teams fighting for 8th place

Talking about the current points table, New Zealand is currently on top. Host India is on the second place. However, being the hosts, the Indian team would have qualified in any case. But the top-7 teams of the current table have qualified for the main round of the World Cup. Now the battle is on for the 8th position for which West Indies, South Africa and Sri Lanka are the three contenders. Out of this, the danger is more on West Indies as they have no matches left now. However, at present the Caribbean team is at the 8th position with 88 points. But South Africa on 9th have 78 points and Sri Lanka on 10th have 77 points. Sri Lanka has to play a three-match series against New Zealand, while South Africa has to play two ODIs against the Netherlands.

Teams from the top to the 7th position in the points table of the current World Cup Super League have qualified for the main round - New Zealand, India, England, Pakistan, Australia, Bangladesh and Afghanistan respectively. The remaining 8th spot will be occupied by either South Africa, West Indies or Sri Lanka. Any two of these plus Ireland, Zimbabwe and the Netherlands will have to play a qualification round along with the other Associate Nations and from there fight it out for the league stage. Two teams from the qualification round will make it to the main round and then a mega event will be played between 10 teams.

South Africa in loss even after winning

The South African team defeated England 2-1 in the three-match ODI series at their home. The team lost the third match as well as the team also lost a point due to slow over rate. Due to this, there is now only one point gap between them and 10th ranked Sri Lanka. That's why the South African team remained in loss even after winning. Earlier, the Proteas hit their feet by refusing to play in the three-match ODI series against Australia. The Australian team got full marks for this. Now it has to be seen whether this step of South Africa should not be overshadowed. The team has to play two ODIs against the Netherlands on 31 March and 2 April. At the same time, his eyes will also be on the ODI series between Sri Lanka and New Zealand from 25 to 31 March.

Complete maths of Cricket World Cup Super League table

If you look at the whole math of ICC Cricket World Cup Super League, in this each team gets 10 points for a win, while a tie/no result/abandoned match gives five points and no points are deducted from the loss. . Also, due to slow over rate, the teams have to pay a penalty of one point and this point is deducted from their total points. So far in the current league, South Africa, West Indies and Ireland have lost 2-2 points due to this reason. On the other hand, Sri Lanka has lost the maximum three points. The Indian team has also lost a point.

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