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The 'ICC 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 features a promotion and relegation structure between divisions. Teams were allocated to their respective 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 series will complete its first cycle in 2007. The second cycle begins in 2008 and acts as 'qualification for the 2011 Cricket World Cup'. It will contain two extra divisions being added to the Global World Cricket League.

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Structure

Summary

Details

Regional Tournaments

Associate nations' one-day rankings

Results of global tournaments

References and notes

External links

Structure

The current league structure is organised with the following divisions.^[3] The regional tournaments are administered by the five Development Regions of the International Cricket Council: Africa, Americas, Asia, East Asia-Pacific, and Europe.

Summary

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Details

Global tournaments (chronological order)
'2007 Global Division One'	1st. 2nd. 3rd. 4th. 5th. 6th.			All six teams qualify for the 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifier
'2007 Global Division Three'	1st. 2nd. 3rd. 4th. 5th. 6th. 7th. 8th. Argentina replaced who were relegated[4]			Uganda and Argentina promoted to 2007 Global Division Two Papua New Guinea and Cayman Islands remain for 2009 Global Division Three Hong Kong, Tanzania, Italy and Fiji relegated to 2008 Global Division Four Held in Darwin, Australia, 27 May - 2 June 2007 Uganda and Argentina also qualified for the High Performance Program (HPP) that helps non-Test nations develop cricket.
'2007 Global Division Two'				1st - 4th qualify for the 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifier 5th & 6th relegated to 2009 Global Division Three To be held in Windhoek, Namibia, 23 November - 3 December 2007 Due to the Asian Cricket Association's decision to handle development of their member nations themselves, both Namibia and Denmark will join the HPP as of 1 April 2007
'2008 Global Division Five'	+ 2 qualifiers from East-Asia Pacific region			1st & 2nd promoted to 2008 Global Division Four To be held in Jersey in 2008.[5]
'2008 Global Division Four'	1st & 2nd of 2008 Global Division Five			1st & 2nd promoted to 2009 Global Division Three
'2009 Global Division Three'	5th & 6th of 2007 Global Division Two 1st & 2nd of 2008 Global Division Four			1st & 2nd qualify for the 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifier
'2009 ICC World Cup Qualifier'	+ 1st - 4th of 2007 Global Division Two and 1st & 2nd of 2009 Global Division Three			1st - 6th qualify for the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup

Regional Tournaments

Regional tournaments
Africa	Americas	Asia	East Asia-Pacific	Europe
'2006 Division One' 1st. 2nd. 3rd. 4th. 5th. promoted to 2007 Global Division Three promoted to 2008 Global Division Five promoted to 2008 Global Division Five	'2006 Division One' 1st. 2nd. 3rd. 4th. 5th. promoted to 2007 Global Division Three promoted to 2008 Global Division Five	'2006 ACC Trophy' 1st. 2nd. 3rd. 4th. 5th. 6th. 7th. 8th. 9th. 10th. 11th. 12th. 13th. 14th. 15th. 16th. 17th. promoted to 2007 Global Division Three promoted to 2008 Global Division Five promoted to 2008 Global Division Five promoted to 2008 Global Division Five The top 8 sides will form the new 2008 Champions Division (Afghanistan, Bahrain, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Nepal, Qatar, Singapore & U.A.E.) The bottom 9 sides will form the new 2008 Challenger Division (Bhutan, Brunei, Iran, Kuwait, Maldives, Myanmar, Oman, Saudi Arabia & Thailand)	'2006 EAP Cricket Trophy' 1st. 2nd. 3rd. promoted to 2007 Global Division Three	'2006 Division One' 1st. 2nd. 3rd. 4th. 5th. promoted to 2007 Global Division Three
'2006 Division Two' 1st. 2nd.  Sierra Leone 3rd.  Ghana 4th.  Malawi 5th.  Morocco 6th.  Rwanda 7th.  Gambia 8th.  Lesotho promoted to 2006 Africa Division One	'2006 Division Two' 1st. 2nd. 3rd.  Panama 4th.  Suriname 5th.  Belize promoted to 2006 Americas Division One promoted to 2008 Global Division Five  Belize relegated to 2008 Americas Division Three		'2007 EAP Cricket Cup'  Indonesia  Samoa  Tonga  Vanuatu Top 2 to be promoted to 2008 Global Division Five.	'2006 Division Two' 1st. 2nd. 3rd. 4th. 5th. 6th. 7th. 8th. promoted to 2008 Global Division Five and 2008 European Division One promoted to 2008 Global Division Five promoted to 2008 Global Division Five were relegated to European Division Four
	'2006 Division Three' 1st.  Suriname 2nd.  Turks and Caicos Islands 3rd.  Chile 4th.  Brazil Suriname  Suriname promoted to 2006 Americas Division Two			'2007 Division Three' 1st. 2nd.  Spain 3rd.  Isle of Man 4th.  Malta 5th. 6th.  Portugal 7th. 8th. will playoff with with the winner going to 2008 European Division 2. and are relegated to 2008 European Division 4.
				'2006 Division Four' 1st. 2nd. 3rd. 4th.  Slovenia  Finland promoted to 2007 European Division Three  Cyprus promoted to 2007 European Division Three

Associate nations' one-day rankings

In late 2005, the International Cricket Council ranked the top non-Test nations from 11-30 to complement the Test nations' rankings in the ICC ODI Championship. The ICC used the results from the 2005 ICC Trophy and WCQS Division 2 repechage competition (i.e. the primary qualification mechanisms for the 2007 Cricket World Cup) to rank the nations.
These rankings were used to seed the initial stage of the global World Cricket League. Teams ranked 11-16 were placed into Division 1; teams 17-20 were placed into Division 2; teams 21-23 were placed into Division 3; the remaining teams were placed into the upper divisions of their respective regional qualifiers.
As of 1 April 2006 the top six associates gained one day status.
Kenya and Ireland have both qualified to appear on the main rating table, Kenya from its existing status and Ireland for its two victories in the 2007 World Cup.
Scotland, Netherlands, Canada and Bermuda remain on a secondary table using the rules displayed at the following website: http://www.icc-cricket.com/icc/odi/associates.html
When the lower Global Division tournaments are played the rankings from 17th and lower are expected to change significantly.
Rankings as at 11 June 2007 (http://www.icc-cricket.com/icc/development/one-day_rankings.html)

Rank	Nation	Regional Rank
10		Europe No.1 Associate/Affiliate member
12		Africa No. 1 Associate/Affiliate member
13		Europe 2
14		Europe 3
15		Americas No.1 Associate/Affiliate member
16		Americas 2
17		Asia No.1 Associate/Affiliate member
18		Africa 2
19		Europe 4
20		Asia 2
21		Africa 3
22		Americas 3
23		East Asia - Pacific No.1 Associate/Affiliate member
24		Americas 4
25		Asia 3
26		Africa 4
27		Europe 5
28		EAP 2
=29		Asia 4
=29		Africa 5
=29	★ tbc	EAP 3 ★ tbc
=29		Europe 6
=29	+	Americas 5
=34		Europe 7
=34		Asia 5
=34		Asia 6
=37		Americas 6
=37	★ tbc	EAP 4 ★ tbc
=37		Europe 8
=37		Africa 6

Notes:

★ Cook Islands as EAP qualifier 1, and Japan as EAP qualifier 2, to Div 5 2008 is not definite in that there will still be an EAP WCL Regional event(s) the meantime which will affect this level of EAP Regional rankings (all other Regions have confirmed no change or relevant WCL events in this time period)

+ USA demoted from WCL Div 2 to Div 5 (as current bottom Global Division) in March 2007 following ICC Board suspension / de-recogntion of USA National Board

Results of global tournaments

Year	Host Nation(s)	Final Venue	Final
			Winner	Result	Runner-up
2007 ''Details''	Kenya	Nairobi Gymkhana Club, Nairobi	158 for 2 (37.5 overs)	'Ken won by eight wickets' Scorecard	155 all out (47 overs)
2007 ''Details''	Australia	Gardens Oval, Darwin	241/8 (50 overs)	'Uganda won by 91 runs' scorecard	150 all out (46.3 overs)
2009 ''Details''	United Arab Emirates

References and notes

1. Division One [1]
2. Division Two and 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifier
3. Opportunities for Europe as WCL expands, by Rod Lyall, published by CricketEurope, on 10 September 2006
4. ''Withdrawn from the World Cricket League division 3 ... and relegated from that division'' due to suspension of the membership of the United States of America Cricket Association (USACA) [2]
5. Jersey to host ICC World Cricket League Division 5 tournament [3]

External links

★ ICC World Cricket League is a vital part of cricket's development, says Sonn - ICC website article