QUALIFYING for any global sporting competition has never been a given for the country's national sporting teams and the Zimbabwe cricket side, fresh from a woeful showing at the ongoing ICC World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, will no longer enjoy the comfort of automatic qualification.
This comes after the cricket governing body decided to reduce the 2019 ICC World Cup to be hosted by England and Wales to a 10-team event where the top seven teams in the ICC rankings, as of September 30 2017, will earn automatic progress along with the hosts England.
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