West Indies Cricket Fans Forum
Struggling WI still ninth
West Indies have suffered minimal fallout from their One-Day series whitewash at the hands of New Zealand.
In the latest rankings released yesterday, the Caribbean side were still ninth in the ICC rankings and had lost only one point to slip to 76 ratings points.
They are now eight points behind the eighth-ranked Sri Lanka and still some 16 points adrift of Bangladesh in seventh spot. The recent series represented an opportunity for West Indies to close the gap on Sri Lanka, but instead they failed to win a single match.
The Windies will now enter the ten-team ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier 2018 in Zimbabwe next March, in another bid to secure one of the two remaining places at the World Cup.
Afghanistan, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Papua New Guinea, Scotland and hosts Zimbabwe will join West Indies in the tournament, with the finalists from the ICC World Cricket League Division 2 in February expected to complete the line-up. (CMC)
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