ICC has decided to discuss again the composition of the 2015 Cricket World Cup during the ICC ‘s annual conference in Hong Kong in end-June after being requested to do so by the ICC President from India Sharad Pawar. Pawar had made the request following a widespread criticism of the new format which would have left out teams like Ireland and Afghanistan without giving them any chance to compete and prove themselves.
According to Cricinfo, Sharad Pawar said:
I have given this matter further serious thought and will request the Board to consider this topic once more. I can understand the views of the Associates and Affiliates and the ICC will seek to deal with this issue in the best way possible.
Hopefully this will be a good news for Afghanistan and other associate and affiliate teams so that proper qualification rounds are held for at least a couple of the places.
Great to see another south Asian country rising strong. hope to see your national team arriving Sri Lanka for series.
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Thanks Sri Lanka Cricket Guru. As long as you know about Afghanistan cricket team its been improved. I think that the ICC should give the Afghanistan team a chance to prove themselves. let me give you an example, 10 Feb 2012 the team has well played against Pakistan cricket team in Sharjah. I know we have not won the game but the boyshave played well and i think its not so easy to play against a full member of ICC, but we have played well. I request to the ICC to give a chance to Afghanistan team to play against ICC full members.
Thanks,
I Love Afghanistan cricket team inshallah they will qualify for wold cup
Afghanistan Cricket team has really improved compared to last year and 2 years ago.
They scored 195 all out against pakistan.. that is a huge number for a new team. same goes for ireland, they have also played well recently compared to other small teams…Afghanistan deserves a chance to be in ICC world Cup. they just qualified for Twenty20 world cup srilanka…. in qualification round they are unbeaten.
so teams like this must get a chance to play… it is not fair.
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