www.islandstats.com can reveal that the 2019–21 ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League is scheduled to be the Inaugural Edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League, a cricket tournament which forms part of the qualification pathway to the 2023 Cricket World Cup.
It is scheduled to start in August 2019, with all matches having List A status.
The Cricket World Cup Challenge League will be split into two groups, A and B, Bermuda is in Group B, with the top team in each group advancing to a play-off tournament, taking place in 2022, which feeds into the 2022 Cricket World Cup Qualifier tournament. The Cricket World Cup Challenge League replaces the World Cricket League (WCL) which was previously used as the pathway to the Cricket World Cup.
The league will feature the twelve teams ranked from 21st to 32nd place in the WCL following the conclusion of the 2019 ICC World Cricket League Division Two tournament in Namibia. The twelve teams will then be split into two groups, with each group playing in a six-team tournament on an annual basis.
The following teams were ranked from 21st to 32nd in the World Cricket League following the conclusion of the 2019 ICC World Cricket League Division Two tournament, and were allocated to Groups A and B.
Group B:
Hong Kong (6th in 2019 ICC World Cricket League Division Two)
Kenya (4th in 2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Three)
Uganda (6th in 2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Three)
Jersey (4th in 2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Four)
Bermuda (6th in 2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Four)
Italy (4th in 2017 ICC World Cricket League Division Five)
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