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The ICC World Cricket League is a series of international one-day cricket tournaments for national teams without Test status, administered by the International Cricket Council. All Associate and Affiliate members of the ICC are eligible to compete in the league system, which features a promotion and relegation structure between divisions. Teams were allocated to their respective divisions based on their performance in the qualification tournaments for the 2007 World Cup, the six initial teams in Division One being the teams that qualified for the 2007 World Cup. The series will complete its first cycle in 2007. The second cycle begins in 2008 and acts as qualification for the 2011 Cricket World Cup. It will contain two extra divisions being added to the Global World Cricket League.

The current league structure is organised with the following divisions.^[3] The regional tournaments are administered by the five Development Regions of the International Cricket Council: Africa, Americas, Asia, East Asia-Pacific, and Europe.

The above diagram shows the chronological order and structure of the divisions within the World Cricket League. From left to right the chronology of the divisions is indicated; from top to bottom the hierarchy within the competition. The arrows indicate the number of teams promoted and relegated between leagues

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In late 2005, the International Cricket Council ranked the top non-Test nations from 11-30 to complement the Test nations' rankings in the ICC ODI Championship. The ICC used the results from the 2005 ICC Trophy and WCQS Division 2 repechage competition (i.e. the primary qualification mechanisms for the 2007 Cricket World Cup) to rank the nations.

These rankings were used to seed the initial stage of the global World Cricket League. Teams ranked 11-16 were placed into Division 1; teams 17-20 were placed into Division 2; teams 21-23 were placed into Division 3; the remaining teams were placed into the upper divisions of their respective regional qualifiers.

As of 1 April 2006 the top six associates gained one day status.

Kenya and Ireland have both qualified to appear on the main rating table, Kenya from its existing status and Ireland for its two victories in the 2007 World Cup. Scotland, Netherlands, Canada and Bermuda remain on a secondary table using the rules displayed at the following website: http://icc-cricket.yahoo.com/rankings/associate-team-rankings.html

When the lower Global Division tournaments are played the rankings from 17th and lower are expected to change significantly.

Rankings as at completion of 2007 Global Division Two

Rank	Nation	Regional Rank
10 ‡	Ireland	Europe No.1 Associate/Affiliate member
12	Kenya	Africa No. 1 Associate/Affiliate member
13	Scotland	Europe 2
14	Netherlands	Europe 3
15	Canada	Americas No.1 Associate/Affiliate member
16	Bermuda	Americas 2
17	United Arab Emirates	Asia No.1 Associate/Affiliate member
18	Oman	Asia 2
19	Namibia	Africa 2
20	Denmark	Europe 4
21	Uganda	Africa 3
22	Argentina	Americas 3
23	Papua New Guinea	East Asia - Pacific No.1 Associate/Affiliate member
24	Cayman Islands	Americas 4
25	Hong Kong	Asia 3
26	Tanzania	Africa 4
27	Italy	Europe 5
28	Fiji	EAP 2
=29	Afghanistan	Asia 4
=29	Botswana	Africa 5
=29	Norway	Europe 6
=29	United States+	Americas 5
=33	Jersey	Europe 7
=33	Nepal	Asia 5
=33	Singapore	Asia 6
=36	Bahamas	Americas 6
=36	Japan	EAP 3
=36	Germany	Europe 8
=36	Mozambique	Africa 6
40	Vanuatu	EAP 4

Notes:

‡ Test nation Zimbabwe is currently ranked eleventh, one place below Ireland, due to Ireland's performance at the 2007 ICC World Cup

+ USA demoted from WCL Div 2 to Div 5 (as current bottom Global Division) in March 2007 following ICC Board suspension / de-recogntion of USA National Board

Details	Host Nation(s)	Final Venue	Final
			Winner	Result	Runner-up
2007 Division One	Kenya	Nairobi Gymkhana Club, Nairobi	Kenya 158/2 (37.5 overs)	Kenya won by 8 wickets Scorecard	Scotland 155 all out (47 overs)
2007 Division Three	Australia	Gardens Oval, Darwin	Uganda 241/8 (50 overs)	Uganda won by 91 runs scorecard	Argentina 150 all out (46.3 overs)
2007 Division Two	Namibia	Wanderers Cricket Ground, Windhoek	United Arab Emirates 347/8 (50 overs)	United Arab Emirates won by 67 runs scorecard	Oman 280 all out (43.2 overs)
2008 Division Five	Jersey
2009 WC Qualifier	United Arab Emirates

1. ^ Division One [1]
2. ^ Division Two and 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifier
3. ^ Opportunities for Europe as WCL expands, by Rod Lyall, published by CricketEurope, on 10 September 2006
4. ^ Withdrawn from the World Cricket League division 3 ... and relegated from that division due to suspension of the membership of the United States of America Cricket Association (USACA) [2]
5. ^ Jersey to host ICC World Cricket League Division 5 tournament [3]

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