da betsul： Cricket officials Monday explained procedure through which three teamswill qualify for the 2003 World Cup in South Africa after the currentsix-team ICC Trophy Super League being played here
Latafat Ali Siddiqui10-Jul-2001Cricket officials Monday explained procedure through which three teamswill qualify for the 2003 World Cup in South Africa after the currentsix-team ICC Trophy Super League being played here.A spokesman for the tournament said Monday: “Under the playingconditions in use for the 2001 ICC Trophy tournament, the teams whichfinished in the top three places in each of the two groups in DivisionOne automatically qualified for the Super League phase of the event.Namely, these sides are: Holland, Scotland, Canada, Denmark, Irelandand the USA.” He said after Saturday’s two playoff matches, they havebeen joined in this stage of the competition by Namibia and the UnitedArab Emirates.”While it will involve a total of eight teams rather than six, theSuper League section shares many similarities with the Super Sixconcept used in the 1999 World Cup in England,” he explained.It pits the best-performed teams in the earlier rounds of thetournament in direct competition with one another in order todetermine which four teams progress to the finals of the tournament.Each of the eight teams that move through to the Super League willcarry forward the points and net run rates that they gained againstthe other sides that qualified from their group.They then play four matches – against the four sides they have not yetmet – and the results are tallied to produce a Super League table.Having been the only side to reach the last eight from Division Two,Namibia inherits the points and net run rates that Bermuda – the teamit beat in the playoff round – gained against the other sides thatqualified from its group.At the completion of the four days of Super League matches, the teamsthose finishing first and second on the table will contest the finaland will both automatically qualify for the 2003 World Cup.The sides those finishing third and fourth will meet in the qualifyingfinal, and the winners of that match will also reserve themselves aplace in World Cup 2003, the spokesman said.