Pakistan, NZ set for direct qualification for 2026 T20 WC despite early exits

Shoaib Akhtar as of late caused a serious ruckus in Pakistan by guaranteeing that the public group would need to go through the qualifiers to get a spot in the following T20 World Cup. It has since arisen that the circumstance may not be pretty much as desperate as at first anticipated. Regardless of whether their last match against Ireland in Post Lauderdale, Florida is cleaned out on Monday, Pakistan can in any case qualify straightforwardly for the following version in 2026. India and Sri Lanka are the joint hosts of that World Cup. As indicated by the passing standards, 12 of the 20 groups will get programmed capabilities. India and Sri Lanka, as hosts, will be the initial two groups on the rundown, acquiring direct passage into the following version alongside all Really 8 groups. India, having previously equipped for the Super 8s from Gathering An in the 2024 T20 World Cup, meet the necessities under two measures. Different groups that have made the Very 8 cut and have acquired an immediate passage into the 2026 version are South Africa (Gathering D), West Indies and Afghanistan (Gathering C), Australia (Gathering B) and USA (Gathering A). Bangladesh or Netherlands will come to the following round from Gathering D while Scotland and Britain are in a tussle for a Very 8 spot from Gathering B. Counting Sri Lanka there will be nine groups, and three additional groups will go along with them. These three groups will be settled based on the most noteworthy positioned groups according to the ICC Men's T20I rankings table on 30th June, 2024. Pakistan are right now seventh with 241 rating focuses according to the most recent T20I rankings while New Zealand, who likewise experienced an early exit, are 6th with 247 places. These different sides are well in front of groups like Bangladesh (ninth with 226 places), Ireland (eleventh with 195 places), Scotland (twelfth with 192 places), Zimbabwe (thirteenth with 192 places), Namibia (fourteenth with 189 places), Netherlands (fifteenth with 185 places), UAE (sixteenth with 176 places), Nepal (eighteenth with 170 places), Oman (nineteenth with 163 places), PNG (twentieth with 145 places), Uganda (21st with 135 places), Hong Kong (22nd with 135 places) and Canada (23rd with 129 places). The excess eight groups not entirely set in stone through the ICC's territorial capability pathway - two each will be filled through local capability cycles of Europe, Asia and Africa, with one each from the East Asia Pacific and Americas areas. The eight groups that came through pathway processes in this release were Ireland and Scotland (Europe), Nepal and Oman (Asia), Namibia and Uganda (Africa), Canada (Americas), and Papua New Guinea (East Asia Pacific). The USA acquired section by ethicalness of being the joint hosts. Latif comes to Pakistan's protection, faults ICC In the mean time, Pakistan's inability to fit the bill for the Super 8s has perpetually gotten analysis from a few quarters however Rashid Latif faulted the circumstances for the Babar Azam side's fiasco On the planet Cup. "You can't fault the Pakistan players for everything. They battled well yet their endeavors were fixed by the pitch conditions. They ought to have won both the US and India games however the circumstances were outside of their reach. It can work out, runs have been hard to come. Obviously, even a batsman like Virat Kohli isn't getting runs," Latif said in that frame of mind with Cricbuzz. Latif condemned the ICC, expressing that on the off chance that groups like Pakistan don't come to the Super 8s, the world body ought to bear liability. He further called attention to that poor people conditions are in the US as well as in the Caribbean. "Individual half hundreds of years are very few. No group has scored 50 years against groups like Afghanistan. On the off chance that a batsman scores 50 years the group winds up winning as a general rule. Rishabh Gasp made 42 and India beat Pakistan. The circumstances are not great for Anything Cup," Latif said.