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The 2015 cricket World Cup in Australia and New Zealand will feature 14 nations not 10, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Tuesday.
The sport’s governing body had announced in October last year that the World Cup would be cut back to a 10-team event, and in April this year said the tournament would be restricted to the 10-Test playing nations only.
The ICC was keen to cut down on the length and number of matches being played at World Cups following criticism of the 2007 tournament in the West Indies.
The decision to prevent them playing in the tournament angered associate, or non-Test, nations such as Canada and Ireland, who argued their ability to grow the game would be hampered by not being able to qualify for the tournament.
But at a meeting of the ICC executive board in Hong Kong on Tuesday, a 14-team competition was announced which will allow four associate countries to qualify for the tournament.
A Cricket Australia (CA) spokesman said the decision wouldn’t affect preparations for the tournament.
“Once announced, we will concentrate on getting on with organising what will be one of Australia-NZ’s biggest ever sporting events,” CA public affairs general manager Peter Young told AAP on Tuesday.
The decision also affects the format for the 2012 and 2014 Twenty20 tournaments.
They were originally planned to be 16-team events to give associate nations international exposure but will now remain 12-team events with the 10 Test nations and two associates.
The tournaments will be held in Sri Lanka (2012) and Bangladesh (2014).
The 2019 World Cup will be a 10-team event using the ICC rankings to determine which teams compete.
The top eight from the ranking system will qualify automatically for the tournament with the remaining two places to be decided by a qualification competition.
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