ICC World Cricket League Championship

WCL Championship
Administrator ICC
Format 50 overs (List A/ODI)
First tournament 2007
Number of teams Six (2007 and 2010)
Eight (since 2011)
Current champion  Ireland
Most successful  Ireland (2 titles)
2015-17 ICC World Cricket League Championship

The ICC World Cricket League Championship is the top division of the World Cricket League (WCL) system, and forms part of the qualification process for the Cricket World Cup.

The WCL Championship was originally known as World Cricket League Division One, and was played twice under that name (in 2007 and 2010). Those were hosted as standalone tournaments, but a new format was subsequently introduced in which competing teams play multiple games against each other over several years (mirroring the Intercontinental Cup, a first-class competition). All matches in the WCL Championship hold List A status, while matches between higher-ranking teams may hold One Day International (ODI) status.

The first WCL Division One tournament in 2007 featured the top six teams from the 2005 ICC Trophy, while the 2010 tournament featured the top six teams from the 2009 World Cup Qualifier. Two teams from WCL Division Two were added for the 2011–13 WCL Championship, making eight teams in total. The top two teams from the 2011–13 competition (Ireland and Afghanistan) gained automatic qualification for the 2015 World Cup. They were subsequently promoted to the ICC ODI Championship, although the 2015–17 WCL Championship remained an eight-team competition as two additional teams were promoted from Division Two.

Results

Edition Host Final venue Final
Winner Result Runner-up
2007  Kenya Nairobi  Kenya
158/2 (37.5 overs)
Kenya won by 8 wickets
scorecard
 Scotland
155 (47 overs)
2010  Netherlands Amsterdam  Ireland
233/4 (44.5 overs)
Ireland won by 6 wickets
scorecard
 Scotland
232 (48.5 overs)
2011–13 no single host no final  Ireland
24 points
Ireland won on points
points table
 Afghanistan
19 points
2015–17 no single host no final

Performance by team

Legend
Team 2007 2010 2011
–13
2015
–17
Total
 Afghanistan 3rd 2nd ODI 2
 Bermuda 6th 1
 Canada 4th 5th 8th 3
 Hong Kong Q 1
 Ireland 5th 1st 1st ODI 3
 Kenya 1st 6th 6th Q 4
 Namibia 7th Q 2
   Nepal Q 1
 Netherlands 3rd 4th 4th Q 4
 Papua New Guinea Q 1
 Scotland 2nd 2nd 5th Q 4
 United Arab Emirates 3rd Q 3

Player statistics

Edition Most runs Most wickets MVP Ref
2007 Canada Ashish Bagai (345) Kenya Peter Ongondo (15) Canada Ashish Bagai
2010 Netherlands Tom Cooper (408) Ireland Alex Cusack (10) Netherlands Tom Cooper
2011–13 United Arab Emirates Shaiman Anwar (625) Namibia Christi Viljoen (23)
2015–17

See also

References

  1. ICC World Cricket League Division One 2006/07 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  2. ICC World Cricket League Division One 2010 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  3. ICC World Cricket League Division Two 2011 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
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