The Sri Lanka women’s team has failed to secure direct qualification for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024.
According to the International Cricket Council (ICC), although Sri Lanka won two games in the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2023, they failed to secure a direct qualification for next year’s tournament.
Even though Sri Lanka was on par with New Zealand, they were unable to qualify due to a poor net run rate.
The ICC said in a statement that the automatic qualifiers for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 have been identified after the end of the eighth edition of the tournament that saw Australia win their sixth title at Newlands in Cape Town on Sunday (26).
As per the qualification process, the top three teams from each group earn direct qualification along with the hosts and the highest-ranked team outside of the six direct qualifiers from the 10-team tournament.
Australia, New Zealand and South Africa are the teams to earn direct qualification as the top three teams of Group 1 in the league stage while England, India and the West Indies similarly make it from Group 2.
Bangladesh qualify as hosts of the ninth edition of the tournament while Pakistan makes it by virtue of being the next highest-ranked team in the MRF Tyres ICC Women’s T20I Team Rankings as of 27 February 2023.
The remaining two spots will be identified through a Global Qualifier to be held in early 2024. The dates and venues of this tournament will be announced in due course.
From the teams who played in this year’s tournament, Sri Lanka and Ireland are the teams failing to get a direct qualification. Sri Lanka is currently ranked eighth in the rankings while Ireland is 10th. (ICC)