There's an extra permutation for the Harare jaunt, Neil, I think. Ireland are still in with a shout, and neither WI nor Sri Lanka are confirmed to qualify for the WC automatically. Ireland have a series against Bangladesh in May, and depending on other results, wouldn't necessarily even need a clean sweep to qualify automatically.
I notice that the Guardian version of this piece also said that the UAE would be playing--which, unless the ICC have changed the qualifying pathway since they first announced it, also isn't yet confirmed: Oman would be the third direct qualifier for the qualifiers from that league.
There's an extra permutation for the Harare jaunt, Neil, I think. Ireland are still in with a shout, and neither WI nor Sri Lanka are confirmed to qualify for the WC automatically. Ireland have a series against Bangladesh in May, and depending on other results, wouldn't necessarily even need a clean sweep to qualify automatically.
I notice that the Guardian version of this piece also said that the UAE would be playing--which, unless the ICC have changed the qualifying pathway since they first announced it, also isn't yet confirmed: Oman would be the third direct qualifier for the qualifiers from that league.
In past first class players played every game facing test quality bowling now they NEVER face test quality bowling Shukri knows where to look….!!