ICC World Cup Qualifier

The ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier is the qualifying tournament for the Cricket World Cup since 1979. Up to and including 2005, the ICC Trophy tournament was called.

History

For the World Cup, which has been held since 1975, which now has ten test cricket nations are automatically qualified. For the first World Cup in addition to the then six Test nations still Sri Lanka and East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) were invited, first with the second orientation, a qualifying tournament was held in the form of the ICC Trophy. At that only the so-called associate members were admitted until 2001 basically, not the Affiliate Members of the International Cricket Council (ICC). The German team took part only so far in the tournament in 2001 in Canada and won at least officially three of his five first round matches.

The number of participants of the ICC Trophy 2005 was reduced to 12 teams, including previous elimination rounds were necessary, and with Oman also made ​​his first start an affiliate member.

For the first time five teams qualified for the World Cup 2007 in the Caribbean ( West Indies ), all automatically, also an innovation, the official One Day International ( ODI) were awarded status. These five qualifiers nor was added in Kenya, this status had previously been the only country outside of the ten test nations.

For the World Cup 2011, the number of qualifiers was reduced to four, especially as Kenya now lost its status as an automatic qualifier. However, the non-qualified fifth and sixth placed teams will still get ODI status.

To qualify for the upcoming Cricket World Cup 2015, there was plenty of controversy. So the ICC initially planned to completely abolish the qualification and give only the ten Test nations a right to participate in the World Cup. However, this was rejected again. and now the top two teams of the Intercontinental Cup One-Day should initially qualify 2011-13. In addition, then two more qualifiers which are determined at the Cricket World Cup Qualifier 2013.

Previous Tournaments

Sri Lanka 324-8 (60 ov ) vs. Canada 264-5 (60 ov ) Sri Lanka won by 60 runs

Bermuda 231-8 (60 ov ) vs. Zimbabwe 232-5 ( 54.3 ov ) Zimbabwe won by 5 wickets

Zimbabwe 243-9 (60 ov ) vs. Netherlands 218 all out ( 58.4 ov ) Zimbabwe won by 25 runs

Netherlands 197-9 (60 ov ) vs. Zimbabwe 198-4 ( 54.2 ov ) Zimbabwe won by 6 wickets

Kenya 281-6 (50 ov ) vs. Ver. Arab. Emirates 282-8 ( 49.1 ov ) United Arab Emirates won by 2 wickets

Kenya 241-7 (50 ov ) vs. Bangladesh 166-8 (25 ov ) Bangladesh won by 2 wickets

Namibia 195-9 (50 ov ) vs. Netherlands 196-8 (50 ov ) Netherlands won by 2 wickets

Scotland 324-8 (50 ov ) vs. Ireland 277-9 (50 ov ) Scotland won by 47 runs

Canada 185 (48 ov ) vs. Ireland 188-1 ( 42.3 ov ) Ireland won by 9 wickets

Scotland 285-5 (50 ov ) vs. Ver. Arab. Emirates 244-9 (50 ov ) Scotland to win by 41 runs

Tournament Records

Team Records

Player Records

  • The most runs scored in the innings: 172 (SD Myles, Hong Kong v Gibraltar, Bridgnorth, 1986)
  • Most Runs in all tournaments: 1173 ( Maurice Odumbe, Kenya)
  • Best Bowling in an Innings: 7-9 ( Asim Khan, Netherlands v East and Central Africa, Kuala Lumpur, 1997)
  • Most wickets in all tournaments: 71 (Roland Lefebvre, The Netherlands)
  • Most Catches by a pure fielder all tournaments: 26 (Roland Lefebvre, The Netherlands)
  • Most wicket-keeper Dismissals in all tournaments: 38 ( Allan Douglas, Bermuda)
  • Most ICC Trophy Appearances: 43 (Roland Lefebvre )

Documents

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