2019–2023 ICC Cricket World Cup League 2

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2019–2023 ICC Cricket World Cup League 2
DatesAugust 2019 – February 2023
Administrator(s)International Cricket Council
Cricket formatOne Day International
Tournament format(s)Round-robin
Participants7
Matches126

The 2019–2023 ICC Cricket World Cup League 2 is the first edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup League 2, a cricket tournament which forms part of the 2023 Cricket World Cup Qualification process.[1][2] It is currently running from August 2019 to February 2023,[3] with all matches played as One Day Internationals (ODIs).[4] Each set of fixtures will take part as a tri-series.[5]

Scotland, Nepal and the United Arab Emirates were joined by the top four teams from the 2019 ICC World Cricket League Division Two tournament.[6] The first round of fixtures was played in Aberdeen, Scotland in August 2019.[7]

The top three teams will advance to the 2023 Cricket World Cup Qualifier tournament, while the bottom four teams will have to go into the 2022 ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier Play-off.[8]

Originally, it was intended that the top ranked team in this CWC League 2 would be promoted to the next 2020–2023 ICC Cricket World Cup Super League at the expense of its 13th ranked team - if the League 2 team finished as the higher of the two in the 2023 Cricket World Cup Qualifier. The team ranked lower would then have played in the next edition of League 2.[6][9] However, in November 2021 the ICC announced that there would not be a second edition of the Super League.[10]

One or both of the bottom two teams in this League 2 competition will be relegated to the next Cricket World Cup Challenge League if, in the 2022 ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier Play-off, they are outperformed by a top-ranked team from the 2019–2022 ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge Leagues A or B. Whichever two of these four teams are ranked higher in that Qualifier Play-off, will play in the next League 2, while the two teams ranked lower will play in the next Challenge League.[11]

Teams[edit]

A diagram that explains the qualification structure for the 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup
A diagram that explains the qualification structure for the 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup.
Main articles: 2023 Cricket World Cup Qualifier and 2023 Cricket World Cup

The top three teams in the ICC Cricket World Cup League 2 will qualify for the World Cup Qualifier while the bottom four go to the Qualifier Play-off.[12]

Team Mode of qualification
   Nepal[13] Prior ODI status
 Scotland[13]
 United Arab Emirates[13]
 Namibia[14] Promoted from 2019 ICC World Cricket League Division Two
 Oman[15]
 Papua New Guinea[16]
 United States[17]

Fixtures[edit]

The International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed the following schedule of fixtures.[3][18] In December 2020, the ICC announced a revised schedule following the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.[19] In March 2022, the ICC issued a further update for rounds nine to fifteen, with those rounds scheduled to take place from March to August 2022.[20] Cricket Namibia also announced details of three rounds scheduled to take place in the country in September and November 2022.[21]

Round Date Host team 2nd team 3rd team Notes
1 August 2019  Scotland  Oman  Papua New Guinea
2 September 2019  United States  Papua New Guinea  Namibia
3 December 2019  United Arab Emirates  Scotland  United States
4 January 2020  Oman  Namibia  United Arab Emirates The final two matches were postponed to round 8 following the death of Qaboos bin Said.[22]
5 February 2020    Nepal  United States  Oman
6 September 2021  Oman  United States    Nepal Originally scheduled for March 2021; postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
7 September 2021  Oman  Scotland  Papua New Guinea
8 November 2021  Namibia  Oman  United Arab Emirates Included the two matches postponed from round 4.[23] However, only two matches were played before being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
N/A February 2022  Oman  United Arab Emirates N/A Arranged to make up for matches postponed during rounds four and eight.[24]
9 March 2022  United Arab Emirates  Namibia  Oman Originally scheduled for December 2020; postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Included one match postponed from round 4.[25]
10 March 2022  United Arab Emirates  Papua New Guinea    Nepal
11 April 2022  Papua New Guinea  Oman  Scotland Originally scheduled for April 2021; postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Later moved from Papua New Guinea to the UAE.
12 May 2022  United States  Scotland  United Arab Emirates Originally scheduled for April 2020; postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
13 June 2022  United States    Nepal  Oman
14 July 2022  Scotland    Nepal  Namibia Originally scheduled for July 2020; postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
15 August 2022  Scotland  United Arab Emirates  United States
16 September 2022  Papua New Guinea  Namibia  United States Originally scheduled for May 2021; postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
17 November 2022  Namibia  Papua New Guinea  United States Originally scheduled for September 2020; postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
18 December 2022  Namibia    Nepal  Scotland Originally scheduled for April 2020; postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
TBD TBD    Nepal  United Arab Emirates  Papua New Guinea Originally scheduled for February 2021; postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
TBD TBD  Papua New Guinea  United Arab Emirates    Nepal Originally scheduled for June 2020; postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
21 February 2023    Nepal  Namibia  Scotland

As originally planned, each team would host three tri-series, each time joined by a different two of the other six teams. Each tri-series would comprise six matches (two between each pair of teams). Therefore, over the course of the whole tournament, each team would play each other team twice at home, twice away, and twice at a neutral venue. Some matches had to be re-scheduled for different times and venues (see below), so this original schedule did not happen fully as planned, but the teams remain on course to play a total of six fixtures against each other team.

Alterations[edit]

Two of Oman's home matches, against Namibia and UAE, which were cancelled during Round 4, were instead scheduled to be played in Namibia during Round 8 (although they were again postponed).

On 13 March 2020, the sixth round of matches, scheduled to take place in Lauderhill, Florida in April 2020, were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and travel restrictions to the United States.[26][27] On 24 March 2020, the ICC also confirmed that rounds seven and eight, scheduled to take place in Namibia and Papua New Guinea respectively, had also been postponed.[28] The ninth round of fixtures, scheduled to take place in Scotland in July 2020, were postponed on 10 June 2020.[29] Round 10, scheduled to take place in Namibia in September 2020, was postponed on 23 July 2020.[30]

In February 2021, the ICC confirmed that (newly numbered) rounds six, seven and eight of their updated schedule had also been postponed.[31] Round six was scheduled to take place in Oman, with rounds seven and eight originally scheduled to be played in Papua New Guinea.[32] Round 8 was rescheduled to take place in Namibia during November and December 2021.[33] However, only two matches were played, before the remaining fixtures were postponed due to the discovery of a new variant of COVID-19 in Southern Africa.[34]

In February 2022, Oman and UAE played a three-match bilateral series in Oman to make up for games that had been postponed in the earlier tri-series in Oman and Namibia.[35]

Results[edit]

Results from the home and away matches are as follows:

Home \ Away Namibia Nepal Oman Papua New Guinea Scotland United Arab Emirates United States
Namibia  — 1–0 [2] 1–1 [2] 2–0 [2] 1–1 [2] TBC 1–1 [2]
Nepal    Round 21 — 0–2 [2] Round 19/20 Round 21 Round 19/20 2–0 [2]
Oman  0–1 [1] 1–1 [2] — 2–0 [2] 0–1 [2] 1–2 [4]2 2–0 [2]
Papua New Guinea  0–2 [2] Round 19/20 0–2 [2]1 — 0–2 [2]1 Round 19/20 1–0 [2]
Scotland  2–0 [2] 1–1 [2] 1–1 [2] 2–0 [2] — 2–0 [2] 1–1 [2]
United Arab Emirates  2–0 [2] 2–0 [2] 0–2 [2] 1–1 [2] 1–0 [2] — 0–2 [2]
United States  1–1 [2] 1–0 [2] 1–1 [2] 2–0 [2] 1–1 [2] 1–1 [2] —
Updated to match(es) played on 26 November 2022. Source:
The numbers in square brackets are the numbers of matches played.

1Papua New Guinea's designated home matches against Oman and Scotland were played in the UAE.

2The neutral venue matches between Oman and UAE were played in Oman.
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Results from the neutral venue matches are as follows:

Team 1 \ Team 2 Namibia Nepal Oman Papua New Guinea Scotland United Arab Emirates United States
Namibia  — 2–0 [2] 2–1 [3] 2–0 [2] Round 21 0–2 [2] 2–0 [2]
Nepal    — — 1–1 [2] 2–0 [2] 0–2 [2] Round 19/20 1–1 [2]
Oman  — — — 2–0 [2] 0–2 [2] 0–0 [0]2 2–0 [2]
Papua New Guinea  — — — — 0–2 [2] Round 19/20 0–2 [2]
Scotland  — — — — — 1–1 [2] 1–1 [2]
United Arab Emirates  — — — — — — 0–1 [2]
United States  — — — — — — —
Updated to match(es) played on 21 September 2022. Source:
The numbers in square brackets are the numbers of matches played.
Legend: Blue = left column team win; Yellow = draw; Red = top row team win.

Points Table[edit]

Pos Team
 Pld W L T NR Pts NRR Qualification
1  Scotland (Q) 32 22 8 0 2 46 0.638 Qualification for the 2023 Cricket World Cup Qualifier
2  Oman 36 21 13 1 1 44 0.039
3  Namibia 30 18 11 0 1 37 0.484
4  United States (A) 36 16 17 2 1 35 −0.040 Qualification for the 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier Play-off
5  United Arab Emirates 26 12 11 1 2 27 0.051
6    Nepal 24 8 14 1 1 18 −0.331
7  Papua New Guinea (A) 28 2 25 1 0 5 −0.982
Updated to match(es) played on 8 December 2022. Source: ESPN Cricinfo[36]
(A) Advances to a further round; (Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

Statistics[edit]

Most runs[edit]

Batsman Mat Inns NO Runs Ave Strike rate HS 100s 50s
United States Monank Patel 35 35 2 1,219 36.93 80.30 130 2 8
United States Aaron Jones 31 31 3 1,184 42.28 72.59 123* 1 8
Namibia Gerhard Erasmus 28 27 3 1,166 48.58 78.09 121* 1 10
Oman Jatinder Singh 36 35 1 1,098 32.29 77.92 118* 3 6
Papua New Guinea Assad Vala 28 28 1 1,093 40.48 70.28 104 1 5
Last updated: 8 December 2022[37]

Highest individual score[edit]

Batsman Runs Balls 4s 6s Opposition Ground Match date
Namibia Jean-Pierre Kotze 136 109 11 8  United States Lauderhill 20 September 2019
Scotland Calum MacLeod 133* 144 13 2  United States Aberdeen 17 August 2022
United States Monank Patel 130 101 11 6  Oman Pearland 8 June 2022
Namibia Craig Williams 129* 94 13 6  Oman Muscat 8 January 2020
United States Aaron Jones 123* 87 9 6  Scotland Aberdeen 13 August 2022
Last updated: 8 December 2022[38]

Most wickets[edit]

Bowler Mat Inns Wkts Runs Overs BBI Ave Econ SR 4WI 5WI
Oman Bilal Khan 35 35 76 1,419 298.4 5/31 18.67 4.75 23.5 3 3
United States Saurabh Netravalkar 35 34 58 1,234 298.3 5/32 21.27 4.13 30.8 1 2
Oman Zeeshan Maqsood 34 34 47 1,107 270.5 4/15 23.55 4.08 34.5 3 0
Namibia Bernard Scholtz 29 29 44 799 241.5 5/22 18.15 3.30 32.9 1 1
Nepal Sandeep Lamichhane 20 19 42 691 178.4 6/16 16.45 3.86 25.5 3 1
Last updated: 8 December 2022[39]

Best bowling figures in an innings[edit]

Bowler Wkts Runs Overs Mdns Econ Opposition Ground Match date
Nepal Sandeep Lamichhane 6 16 6 1 2.66  United States Kirtipur 12 February 2020
Namibia Tangeni Lungameni 6 42 9 0 4.66  Papua New Guinea Windhoek 23 November 2022
Oman Khawar Ali 5 15 8 2 1.87  Papua New Guinea Muscat 1 October 2021
United Arab Emirates Basil Hameed 5 17 6.2 0 2.68  Oman Muscat 6 February 2022
Namibia Zhivago Groenewald 5 20 8 1 2.50  United States Lauderhill 20 September 2019
Last updated: 8 December 2022[40]

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External links[edit]

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