World Cricket League
The World Cricket League is a series of international one-day cricket tournaments for national teams without Test status, administered by the International Cricket Council. All Associate and Affiliate members of the ICC are eligible to compete in the league system, which has promotion and relegation between each division. The series will complete its first cycle in 2007, with teams allotted into divisions based on their performance in the qualification tournaments for the 2007 World Cup, the six initial teams in Division One being the teams that qualified for the 2007 World Cup. The next cycle to prepare for the 2011 Cricket World Cup will start in 2008 with two extra divisions being added to the Global World Cricket League.
All 87 Associate and Affiliate members of the ICC are able to qualify for the World Cup.The ICC World Cricket League have two-five steps (depending on the certain team) that the 87 Associate and Affiliate members have to go through to be selected for the World Cup.
Non-Test playing teams from the last World Cup automatically qualifies for the Qualifier. While, the next best ranked teams are seeded in division two and Division Three. From division three, two teams are promoted to division two. From that, four teams qualify for the World Cup Qualifier. While the others are still in contention.
The first stage of qualification, for the other teams, is regional tournaments; from the final regional events, eight teams are promoted to division five. The top two teams from division five then moves up to Division Four. From which, the top two teams are promoted to division three (second edition). From division three (second edition), the top two teams goes to the World Cup Qualifier. The top six teams from the qualifier are then awarded ODI status and are in the World Cup.
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