Bertus de Jong for CricBuzz
“USA will join Division 3 champions Oman in Namibia next April for Division 2, together with Papua New Guinea, Hong Kong, Namibia and Canada, to contest the last ever WCL tournament. The top four teams at that tourney will be rewarded with ODI status for the next cycle and a place in League 2, guaranteeing a total of 36 ODIs over the course of 2.5 years….
The varying fortunes of different countries has long been one of the more attractive features of the WCL of course, where past glories have never provided any lasting sinecure of the sort enjoyed by the ICC’s full members. Yet the recent success of sides like Oman, and especially the United States, does shed a rather uncomfortable light on a trend in associates cricket that many would prefer to ignore, namely the decline of sides such as Kenya or Denmark whose teams are drawn from a small but established domestic cricketing community, eclipsed by sides made up largely of recent arrivals or even players with little more than a passport connecting them to the country they represent.”
Read the full article here– highly recommended