Dubai: The International Cricket Council is set to cut team numbers for the 2015 World Cup from 14 to 10. It means there is no place for Ireland, who beat England in the 2011 World Cup.
Only full ICC members – India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, England, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, West Indies, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe – will compete in four years time.
For the 2019 event, the 10 teams will be decided by qualification.
The possibility of a 12-team tournament was also discussed by the ICC’s executive board at a meeting in Mumbai, but it opted to approve its previous decision to exclude all associate and affiliate member nations from the next edition of the competition.
Apart from Ireland, who also beat Pakistan at the 2007 World Cup, the other nations outside the ICC’s full members to take part in the 2011 event were Kenya, Canada and the Netherlands.
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