The Vanuatu National Men’s Cricket team is on its way to Malaysia to participate in the World Cup Challenge.
The team was in Brisbane, Australia this week for the first leg of their journey to Malaysia for the ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League.
The ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge (CWCC) league is the inaugural replacement of the World Cricket League (WCL) and it will serve as the qualification pathway for the 2023 men’s cricket world cup.
The league is divided into two groups with Vanuatu falling into group A with the likes of Canada, Singapore, Denmark, Malaysia and Qatar.
The competition will be played over three years and the top team from each group, at the end of the three years, will advance to a playoff tournament, which will take place in 2022 to decide who will play in the global qualifier for the ten-team world cup in 2023.
Vanuatu, currently ranked 29th in the world, has made it as far as Division 4 in the now replaced World Cricket League, and they are looking to make an impression and kick off their 2023 world cup campaign on a high in Malaysia.
In their preparations for the ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge, team Vanuatu had two warm up matches against the Wanderers Cricket Club in Brisbane.
They will compete in Group A of the ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge, which starts in Malaysia on Monday, 16 September, 2019.
Photo supplied Caption: Holiday Inn Vanuatu Men’s Cricket team