Co-hosts West Indies and the USA will be among twelve teams that will qualify automatically for the 2024 men’s T20 World Cup. The qualification process for the two other marquee events, the Women’s T20 World Cup in 2024 and the Women’s ODI World Cup in 2025, have also been finalised by the ICC at its recent meeting.
For the 2024 men’s T20 World Cup, which will comprise 20 teams for the first time, the qualification process is that the top-eight teams from the 2022 edition (to be hosted in Australia this October-November) along with the two hosts – West Indies and the USA – will get automatic berths for the league phase. The remaining two slots, via the automatic qualification route, will be taken by the next-highest-ranked teams on the ICC T20 rankings as of November 14 this year.
In case West Indies finish in the top eight in this year’s World Cup, then the top-three teams based on their ICC rankings on the cut-off date will make the grade. If West Indies fail to finish in the top eight at the T20 World Cup this year, then the top-two teams in the rankings table will qualify for the 2024 edition. The eight remaining slots will be filled via the ICC’s regional qualifiers comprising the top-two teams from Africa, Asia and Europe, along with one team each from the
Americas and the East Asia Pacific groups.