Seven teams have qualified for the 10-team tournament. These teams include India (host), England, Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
India and defending champions England will surely compete in the Cricket World Cup 2023, but past winners West Indies, South Africa and Sri Lanka may face a long and difficult road to reach the global competition.
The French news agency AFP has reviewed what countries' teams will have to do in order to be a part of the World Cup in India in October-November.
Which teams have qualified?
Currently, seven teams have qualified for the 10-team tournament. These teams include India (host), England , Australia , New Zealand, Pakistan , Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
Teams from these countries have reached the World Cup after winning 11 or more Super League matches.
There is currently one place for the West Indies from the Super League. The final two spots will be filled by the two best teams in a 10-team qualifying tournament in Zimbabwe in June and July.
Sri Lanka, South Africa and Ireland are still in with a chance of securing the eighth qualifying spot, but Zimbabwe and the Netherlands are out of the running.
West Indies became world champions in 1975 and 1979. They are currently eighth in the Super League and last to qualify. However, West Indies played all their 24 games and won only nine.
Thus he has 88 points. West Indies have no more games to play. Thus, South Africa, Sri Lanka or Ireland can replace him.
For West Indies to qualify through this route, they will need to lose the series against Sri Lanka, New Zealand, which starts on Saturday.
Should the Netherlands upset South Africa next week, Bangladesh will avoid a whitewash by Ireland in May.
Eighth position
Points: 88 (Net Run Rate: 0.738)
Matches left to play: 0
Maximum Points: 88
South Africa
The South African team has a lot of ease compared to the other big teams that are still struggling. The Proteas are currently ninth in the table but have two matches to play against the weakest team, the Netherlands.
After winning these two matches, South Africa will finish eighth and qualify for the World Cup, but only if they lose all three matches in New Zealand.
A win would see South Africa level on points with the West Indies, who currently have the better run rate.
However, he will still need Sri Lanka not to win more than one match against the Kiwis and Ireland have won just two of their three matches against Bangladesh and have a worse net run rate.
Ninth position
Points: 78 (Net Rain Rate. 0.410)
Matches to be played: Two
Maximum Points: 98
Sri Lanka in control
1996 winners Sri Lanka are in an enviable position with qualification in hand. A win in all three matches in New Zealand will secure the eighth spot regardless of how any other team fares.
Tenth position
Points: 77 (Net Run Rate. 0.094)
Matches to be played: 03
Maximum Points: 107
Ireland Outsiders
Ireland needs everything to go forward. Especially the three-match series victory against Bangladesh. The series will take place in May in Chelmsford, England. These are the last matches of the Super League.
Despite a series win, Ireland may not advance. He needs South Africa to beat the Dutch team and lose at least one match in Sri Lanka, New Zealand.
Eleventh position
Points: 68 (Run Rate. 0.382)
Matches to be played: 03
Maximum points
Final Qualifier
The teams that did not qualify directly for the World Cup will have one last chance to prove India one of the two best teams in the 10-team qualifying tournament in Zimbabwe. Hosts India and Netherlands are already participating in the tournament.
The five teams coming through the Super League will include Scotland, Oman and Nepal, who were the top three teams in World Cup League Two. Two teams are yet to be decided.
Those final teams will be decided next week in the League Two Recharge in Namibia when hosts Papua New Guinea take on them. United Arab Emirates, USA, Jersey and Canada will participate in the play-off competition.
Pakistan-Afghanistan Cricket Series: 'The question of the country cannot be left to the children'
Afghanistan defeated Pakistan by six wickets in the first match of the three-match T20I series played in Sharjah on Friday night.
Afghanistan has defeated Pakistan for the first time in an international cricket match, after which a wave of surprise spread among the cricket fans and they also expressed it in different ways on social media.
Afghanistan defeated Pakistan by six wickets in the first match of the three-match T20I series played in Sharjah on Friday night.
Batting first, the Pakistan team made their fifth lowest T20 score of 92, which was achieved by Afghanistan for the loss of four wickets.
Imad Wasim was the top scorer for Pakistan with 18 runs.
Seven batsmen from Pakistan team could not score more than 100 runs.
Ehsanullah's standout performance on behalf of Pakistan team, who took the wicket on the first ball of the first over of his very first international match. He managed to take two cuts in the entire over.
The Pakistan Cricket Selection Committee rested the senior players and included those who performed well in the Pakistan Super League in the series against Afghanistan.
Shaheen Afridi, Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan, Haris Rauf were also not included in this team.
This team playing against Afghanistan consists of the youngest players of Pakistan with an average age of 24 years.
After this defeat, there have been interesting comments on social media with criticism.
Ehtisham Riaz wrote in his tweet that now people understand why Babar and Rizwan start 'slowly'.
A Twitter user named Ayat posted a picture of Saeem Ayub and Haris and wrote, 'Have we found replacements for Babar and Rizwan?
Ehtesham Siddique wrote: 'No surprise in this as we knew it would happen.'
A Twitter user posted a scene from the Indian film 'Pathan' in which the dialogue says: 'The question of the country cannot be left to the children.'
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