As quickly as Pakistan had been knocked out of the continuing ICC T20 World Cup 2024, their former bowler Shoaib Akhtar stated that the Males in Inexperienced must play the Qualifiers to seal their spot within the subsequent version of the T20 World Cup.
Akhtar was positively not the one one to say that Pakistan must play the qualifiers however positively one of the crucial outstanding figures to say that. The highest eight groups of the continuing T20 World Cup or the groups that might qualify for the Tremendous 8s would achieve computerized qualification within the subsequent T20 World Cup, scheduled to be co-hosted by India and Sri Lanka in 2026.
Unsurprisingly, many together with some former Pakistan cricketers believed that Pakistan must play the qualifiers for a spot within the subsequent World Cup. Nevertheless, the Males in Inexperienced look set to e book their place with out taking the qualifier route.
This is how Pakistan can instantly qualify for T20 World Cup 2026:
As per the foundations, 12 of the 20 groups will achieve computerized qualification for the 2026 T20 World Cup whereas the remaining 8 groups will probably be determined by means of qualifiers, reported Cricbuzz. Two of these 12 groups are India and Sri Lanka who will probably be qualifying because the co-hosts.
Moreover, India have additionally made it to the Tremendous 8s whereas Sri Lanka haven’t. In consequence, seven extra groups will probably be making it to the following T20 World Cup on the premise of their efficiency within the ongoing match.
It takes the full variety of groups to 9. The remaining 3 groups will probably be chosen on the premise of ICC T20Is rankings. The three highest-ranked groups as per the ICC Males’s T20I rankings desk on thirtieth June 2024 may also achieve computerized qualification for the 2026 T20 World Cup.
At current, Pakistan are within the seventh spot and look set to make it to the following World Cup with out taking part in the qualifier. New Zealand, who missed out on the Tremendous 8s as properly, are additionally wanting set to realize an computerized qualification as they’re on the sixth spot within the ICC rankings.
They’re properly forward of the opposite groups in competition reminiscent of Bangladesh (ninth with 226 factors), Eire (eleventh with 195 factors), Scotland (twelfth with 192 factors), Zimbabwe (thirteenth with 192 factors), Namibia (14th with 189 factors), Netherlands (fifteenth with 185 factors), UAE (sixteenth with 176 factors), Nepal (18th with 170 factors), Oman (nineteenth with 163 factors), PNG (twentieth with 145 factors), Uganda (twenty first with 135 factors), Hong Kong (twenty second with 135 factors) and Canada (twenty third with 129 factors).
