• Cricket’s world governing body may alter qualification process
• modern rules would hand boost to associate nationsThe International Cricket Council is understood to be considering widening the pathway to the controversial 10-team World Cup in 2019 in a move that will provide greater hope of qualification to teams such as Ireland and Afghanistan.
As it stands,the next edition of the 50-over showpiece will see the top eight of the 12-team ICC rankings – on 30 September 2017 – go through by right, with the final two spots decided by a qualifying tournament the following year. But following criticism of that structure as piece of the World Cup’s overall reduction from 14 teams down to 10, or the ICC is mulling over whether to lop the number of sides that book their places via the rankings to six,leaving four berths up for grabs.
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Source: theguardian.com