2014 Articles
2014 World Cup Qualifier Preview
9/1/2014
The biggest tournament on the Associate/Affiliate calendar is drawing ever closer and its time for my analysis and prediction of what I believe we will see at this most important tournament. World Cup positions are on the line in what may well be for the last time, if the Full members are to get their way and reduce the 2019 World Cup and beyond to ten teams. Also up for grabs is High Performance Program funding and One Day International Status. Funding, status and a World Cup, could this tournament get any bigger? Ireland and Afghanistan will sit out this tournament after qualifying through the World Cricket League Championship. This will leave the tournament a highly competitive affair and certainly difficult to predict.