2025 Champions Trophy qualification at stake throughout ODI World Cup
The highest seven sides on the finish of the league stage of the continued ODI World Cup in India will qualify for the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy, together with hosts Pakistan, to compete within the eight-team occasion.
An ICC spokesperson confirmed to ESPNcricinfo that the qualification system for the 2025 Champions Trophy was accepted by the ICC Board in 2021, when the competitors was introduced again as one of many eight males’s international tournaments to be held within the 2024-31 cycle.
The event has come as a shock to some boards – each whose groups are in India in addition to others who missed making it to the ODI World Cup – who advised ESPNcricinfo that they had been unaware about qualification for the 2025 Champions Trophy being at stake on this event.
At current, Bangladesh and England are at No. 9 and 10 on the ODI World Cup factors desk, and subsequently outdoors the highest seven who will qualify for the Champions Trophy together with hosts Pakistan.
This additionally means different Full-Member nations like West Indies, Zimbabwe and Eire won’t even have the chance to qualify for the event, by advantage of not having made it to the 2023 ODI World Cup.
In November 2021, the ICC had unveiled a number of international occasions for each women and men within the new cycle (2024-31) together with two editions of the Champions Trophy – in 2025 and 2029. In a media assertion, the ICC had stated that the Champions Trophy could be an eight-team occasion and the event construction “will comply with earlier editions with two teams of 4, semi-finals and ultimate”.
For the 2013 and 2017 editions of the Champions Trophy, the highest eight groups within the ODI rankings at a deadline certified for the occasion. It’s understood that the choice to have the highest seven groups at this World Cup qualify for the 2025 Champions Trophy was accepted initially by the ICC’s chief executives committee following which the ICC board ratified the advice.
One Full Member board confirmed that the qualification pathways for all of the occasions had been mentioned and accepted on the 2021 ICC conferences. For the 2027 males’s ODI World Cup, which might be a 14-team event co-hosted by South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia, the qualification course of is: the 2 Full Member hosts – South Africa and Zimbabwe – plus eight highest-ranked groups as of March 31, 2027, and 4 remaining groups via international qualifier tournaments.
The qualification for the 2025 Champions Trophy was highlighted this week by Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan greater than as soon as. Together with his staff nearly out of the semi-final race within the ODI World Cup, Shakib spoke of the significance of ending within the prime eight. “I imply, not the semi-final hope. It’s not a semi-final chance,” Shakib stated on Saturday, after Bangladesh had been overwhelmed by Netherlands. “At the very least, do some higher. Suppose, it’s a must to be within the [top] rating 8 if you wish to play within the Champions Trophy. So, there are nonetheless three matches left contemplating that in thoughts.”
