The thirteenth version of the event would be the first with out the two-time champions
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West Indies have did not qualify for the 2023 ODI International Cup after shedding to Scotland within the Tremendous Six degree of the continued International Cup Qualifiers in Zimbabwe. Simplest the 2 finalists of that event make it to the International Cup in India later this 12 months, and West Indies now can not achieve the general.
They had been champions of the primary two International Cups in 1975 and 1979, and runners-up in 1983; the thirteenth version of the contest would be the first with out the workforce from the Caribbean.
West Indies needed to play the International Cup Qualifiers as a result of they completed 9th within the ODI Tremendous League, and simplest the tip 8 groups acquire direct access to the ten-team event.
They had been grouped with Zimbabwe, Netherlands, USA and Nepal in Workforce A of the Qualifiers, and the structure of the event used to be such that the tip 3 groups from every of the 2 teams made it to the Tremendous Six degree. Then again, the groups that advanced would elevate ahead issues earned from their effects in opposition to the opposite groups that still certified from their crew.
West Indies started the Qualifiers with victories in opposition to USA and Nepal however then misplaced to Zimbabwe and Netherlands. So whilst they certified for the Tremendous Six, it intended they took 0 issues into that spherical, whilst Zimbabwe carried ahead 4 issues and Netherlands two. From Workforce B, Sri Lanka certified for the Tremendous Six with 4 issues, Scotland with two, and Oman without any.
Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka then received their first Tremendous Six suits, taking their tally to 6 issues every. It left West Indies desiring to win all 3 in their video games – in opposition to Scotland, Sri Lanka and Oman – to have a possibility of catching as much as Zimbabwe or Sri Lanka. However with the defeat to Scotland, the utmost West Indies can get to is 4 issues – now not sufficient for the top-two end wanted for a International Cup price tag to India.
This setback is a continuation of West Indies’ decline within the limited-overs structure. They just simply made it to the 2019 ODI International Cup in England, by means of the International Cup Qualifiers, the place they sneaked into the general on the expense of, coincidentally, Scotland in a rain-hit sport. They then didn’t qualify for the Tremendous 12 degree of the 2022 T20 International Cup in Australia, after successful only one (in opposition to Zimbabwe) and shedding two (to Scotland and Eire) in their crew suits.
