The 2020–22 ICC Cricket World Cup Super League is the ongoing inaugural edition of the One Day International league. The league is scheduled to take place from July 2020 to March 2022, and serves as part of the 2023 Cricket World Cup Qualification process. It features thirteen teams, the twelve Full members of the International Cricket Council, and the Netherlands, who won the 2015–17 ICC World Cricket League Championship to qualify for this competition. Each team will play an ODI series against eight of the twelve opponents, four series at home and four away. Each series consists of three ODIs. The COVID-19 pandemic affected the start of the league, with several rounds of matches being postponed. In April 2020, following a Chief Executives' meeting, the ICC announced that it would look at the future of the league at a later date, once there is a better understanding of the impact of the pandemic on cricket. The series between England and Ireland, starting 30 July 2020, were the first matches of the league. Following a trial that started in December 2019, the ICC announced the use of technology to monitor front-foot no-balls for all matches in the Super League. The third umpire called the front-foot no-balls, communicating this with the on-field umpires.
Teams and qualification pathway
Thirteen teams qualified for the 2020–22 ICC Cricket World Cup Super League:
For the World Cup, the hosts, and the top seven sides thereafter, will qualify automatically. The remaining five teams will play in a qualifying event along with five Associate sides, from which two sides will go through to the final tournament. The top twelve teams in this Super League will qualify for the next Cricket World Cup Super League. The 13th ranked team in this Super League could be relegated to the next Cricket World Cup League 2. Of the 13th ranked team in this Super League and the champions of the 2019–22 ICC Cricket World Cup League 2, whichever of these two teams is ranked higher in the 2022 Cricket World Cup Qualifier will take the 13th spot in the next Super League while the team ranked lower will play in the next League 2.
Format
The tournament is a partial round-robin league and will be played over two years. Each team will play eight other opponents, four at home and four away. This means that a given team will not face all other opponents in their group, but all teams will play the same number of matches. Each series will consist of three ODI matches. Points are awarded as follows:
Win - 10 points
Tie, No Result, or Abandoned - 5 points
Loss - 0 points
If a match is abandoned and the pitch and/or outfield is declared unfit by the ICC Pitch and Outfield Monitoring Process, then the match will be awarded to the visiting team. A team that is behind the required over-rate at the end of a match will have one competition point deducted for each over it is behind.
Schedule
The match schedule was announced by the ICC on 20 June 2018 as part of the 2018–23 ICC Future Tours Programme. Therefore, the four countries that each side will not face in this tournament, are as follows.
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Coronavirus pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic affected international cricket fixtures, including the start of the league. Bangladesh's matches against Ireland were postponed on 21 March 2020. In April 2020, South Africa's tour to Sri Lanka was postponed. The same month, Pakistan's tour of the Netherlands and the West Indies tour of the Netherlands were both postponed, after the Dutch government banned all events in the country, both sports and cultural, until 1 September 2020. On 15 May 2020, Cricket Ireland confirmed that the tour by New Zealand had also been postponed. However, Ireland's 3-match ODI series in England originally scheduled for September 2020 has been brought forward to July and August with all three matches taking place in Southampton, starting on 30 July 2020. On 12 June 2020, the Board of Control for Cricket in India confirmed that it had called off their tours to Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka. On 30 June, Cricket Australia confirmed that their planned home series against Zimbabwe had also been postponed due to the virus. New Zealand's tour of the West Indies was postponed, after the fixtures clashed with the West Indies rescheduled tour to England. Australia's tour of England, which was originally to take place in July, was postponed with both boards aiming to reschedule the series to September.
League table
In the event that two or more teams have the same number of points, the following tie-breaking procedure is used:
The team that has won a greater number of matches will be placed higher.
If still equal, the team with the higher Net Run Rate will be placed higher.
If still equal, the team that is ranked in the higher position in the ICC Men’s ODI Team Rankings on 1 July 2020 shall be placed higher.
Fixtures
2020
England v Ireland
This series was originally scheduled in September 2020 but was rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
