Two-time champions West Indies eliminated from 2023 World Cup race
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Two-time champions West Indies have failed to qualify for the 2023 ODI World Cup after their seven-wicket defeat against Scotland in the World Cup Qualifier Super Six match at the Harare Sports Club on Saturday.
According to the 24NewsHD TV channel, West Indies are now officially out of the race for the 2023 men’s ODI World Cup being placed in India this October.
West Indies Cricket team won two world cups held in 1975 and 1979.
West Indies came into the Super Six stage of the World Cup Qualifier with a very small mathematical possibility of finishing in the top two and qualifying for the World Cup.
Having lost games against Zimbabwe and Netherlands in the group stage, they carried forward no points into the Super Six and needed to win all three of their games to have even an outside chance of qualification.
This loss to Scotland has confirmed that the West Indies will be missing out on their first-ever Cricket World Cup since 1975.
Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe are first and second on the points table with six points each, with two games remaining for all five teams, and are looking like favorites to qualify for the 2023 World Cup.
They were put into bat today by Scotland after losing the toss.
In a must-win encounter, they needed to get off to a good start. However, the exact opposite happened.
West Indies lost four wickets in their first seven overs and 81-6 at one stage.
A late recovery of sorts by Jason Holder and Romario Shepherd took them to 181. It was nowhere near enough to trouble Scotland though as they made light work of the chase.
Matthew Cross and Brandon McMullen scored the fifties as Scotland won the game with more than ten overs and eight wickets remaining.