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Top 4 team's from ICC World Cricket League Division 2 will join Scotland, UAE and Nepal to form the 7-nation ICC World Cup League 2. Each nation will play 6 ODI's against the remaining 6 countries in a 2 1/2 year duration, starting May 2019. A total of 36 official ODI status matches for all the 7 countries. Top 3 at the end of the league in 2022 will qualify directly into Cricket World Cup Qualifiers, while bottom 4 will take part in ICC World Cup Challenge League Qualifiers along with top 2 from 12-nation ICC World Cup Challenge League. From there, top 2 will join bottom 5 team's in ICC World Cup Super League and top 3 from League 2 to form the 10-nation ICC World Cup Qualifiers. All details in the link - https://czarsportzauto.com/top-7-associ ... ed-by-icc/

Good news and bad news with this new WC format. Good news: under the new format the 8 teams in the
new World League as well as the new Division 2 arrangement will be playing home-and-home series,
no more week long tourneys every six months. Have been advocating this for years, and years, and years. Now each
country will be hosting many bilateral international games. People will actually get to see their
national teams playing at home rather than reading about them playing on the other side of the world.
Bad news: this is a format for ODIs. Tests are going the way of the dinosaur and ODIs aren't far behind.
Never going to get mainstream North Americans to warm up to 6 hour cricket matches.
ICC has to adopt this, or similar, format for the T20 WC so the non-test countries
can get a chance to promote the game in their own countries.