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    "editor1": "<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Dubai, Feb 10 (IANS) International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive David Richardson has said it&#39;s difficult to guarantee considerable number of games for leading Associate teams in their bid to qualify for the 2019 World Cup in England.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Richardson&#39;s view comes after ICC decided to reduce the number of teams participating in the 2019 World Cup from 14 to 10 with the top eight sides in the One-Day International (ODI) rankings till Sep 30, 2017, qualifying automatically.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">The remaining two teams will be filled through the Cup qualifying tournament in Bangladesh in 2018.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Theoretically, Ireland and Afghanistan can make it through by reaching the top eight, but the Irish have expressed concerns that they will not be given enough games in the upcoming two years to fulfil that.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Ireland currently sit 12th on the ODI rankings and Afghanistan 11th, but the gap with the eight-positioned West Indies is significant.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">&quot;It&#39;s difficult to guarantee matches for them,&quot; Richardson was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo Tuesday.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">&quot;I think it&#39;s important that we provide the top Associate members the opportunity, and certainly the indications are that the Full Members will support Ireland in that objective.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">&quot;They not only will be playing matches against Full Members like England in particular, and teams visiting England, but they&#39;ll also be playing amongst themselves quite frequently.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">We&#39;re working on them having at least 10 ODIs per season leading up to qualification for that next World Cup, so I think the opportunity will be there,&quot; he said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Richardson also believes that the likes of top teams like Australia will now be inclined to schedule games against Afghanistan as well as Ireland in the coming years, under the new system.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">&quot;Australia have been talking about tours involving Afghanistan. I don&#39;t think we&#39;d have gone down this route if we weren&#39;t confident that we&#39;d make sure that Ireland and Afghanistan both are playing in the region of eight to ten ODIs per year.&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Other Associate nations such as Scotland and the United Arab Emirates, who are playing at the World Cup this year, would have to qualify for the next World Cup by finishing in the top two of the qualifiers in Bangladesh in 2018.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n",
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