The 2024 ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League Play-off was a cricket tournament that took place in Malaysia from February to March 2024, to decide the final four places in the next CWC Challenge League for the next World Cup cycle.
Kuwait and Tanzania were the first teams to secure a place in the Challenge League. Bahrain also claimed a place, followed by Italy. Kuwait emerged as winners at the end of the tournament.
Format The eight qualified teams were placed into two groups of four, with the top three teams from each group advancing to the Super Six stage. The best four sides emerging from the Challenge League Play-off competition qualified for the twelve-team World Cup Challenge League field for the next cycle.
Qualification In the Challenge League Play-off, the bottom two teams from each of the two groups in the 2019–2022 Challenge League joined four others from outside the 32-team qualification process. These were the four nations with the highest Twenty20 International ranking meeting the following entry requirements: They must've had a minimum of eight domestic teams playing regular cricket, including at least five 40+-over matches in each of the two previous years; They had to be in the top 40 of the ICC T20I Rankings as of 30 September 2023. Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Tanzania qualified for the tournament after meeting the requirements.
Method of qualification Date of qualification Venues Number of teams Teams 2019–2022 Challenge League(Bottom 4) 16 September 2019 – 13 December 2022 Various ICC T20I Rankings(Top 4 meeting requirements) 30 September 2023 rowspan=4 Total
Squads Sohail Ahmed (c) Haider Butt Imran Anwar Junaid Aziz Shahbaz Badar (wk) Ahmer Bin Nisar (wk) Rizwan Butt Ali Dawood Sachin Kumar Prashant Kurup Abdul Majid Abbasi Abid Ullah Shah Sathaiya Veerapathiran Mohsin Zaki Delray Rawlins (c) Derrick Brangman Zeko Burgess Allan Douglas Chris Douglas Terryn Fray Kamau Leverock Tre Manders Cejay Outerbridge Jermal Proctor Jarryd Richardson (wk) Dominic Sabir Marcus Scotland Chare Smith Sinclair Smith (wk) Gareth Berg (c) Marcus Campopiano Stefano di Bartolomeo Rakibul Hasan Fida Hussain Damith Kosala Wayne Madsen Nicholas Maiolo Gian-Piero Meade (wk) Anthony Mosca Nimna Pauththuwadura Jaspreet Singh Nikolai Smith Grant Stewart Mohammed Aslam (c) Usman Patel (vc, wk) Ilyas Ahmed Mohammad Amin Clinto Anto Meet Bhavsar (wk) Adnan Idrees Shiraz Khan Sayed Monib Yasin Patel Shahrukh Quddus Ravija Sandaruwan Mohamed Shafeeq Bilal Tahir Virandeep Singh (c) Muhammad Amir Aqeel Wahid Syed Aziz Khizar Hayat Ahmad Faiz Ainool Hafizs Rizwan Haider Sharvin Muniandy Pavandeep Singh Muhamad Syahadat Vijay Unni Muhammad Wafiq Zubaidi Zulkifle Hisham Sheikh (c) Ishtiaq Ahmad Manan Ali (wk) Atif-Ur-Rehman Haseeb Ghafoor (wk) Usman Khalid Faisal Khan Usman Najeeb Shahzaib Kashif Siddique Zain Ul Abidin Waji Ul Hassan Waqar Ul Hassan Abdul Waheed Imran Yousaf Abhik Patwa (c) Ramesh Alluri Akhil Anil Laksh Bakrania Mohamed Issa Zamoyoni Jabeneke Salum Jumbe Ally Kimote Omary Kitunda (wk) Kassim Nassoro Yalinde Nkanya Johnson Nyambo Ivan Selemani SanjayKumar Thakor Joshua Rasu (c) Ronald Tari (vc) Jarryd Allan (wk) Tim Cutler Junior Kaltapau Andrew Mansale Patrick Matautaava Williamsing Nalisa Nalin Nipiko Simpson Obed Apolinaire Stephen Clement Tommy (wk) Jamal Vira (wk) Darren Wotu
Group stage
Group A
Group B
Super 6
Final standings Teams Qualification 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
References
External links Series home at ESPNcricinfo