2020–23 ICC Cricket World Cup Super League
The 2020–23 ICC Men's Cricket World Cup Super League[1][2] is the ongoing inaugural edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup Super League, a One Day International (ODI) league.[3] The league is taking place from July 2020 to March 2023,[4] and serves as part of the 2023 Cricket World Cup qualification process.[5]
| Dates | 30 July 2020 – 31 March 2023 |
|---|---|
| Administrator(s) | International Cricket Council |
| Cricket format | One Day International |
| Tournament format(s) | Group tournament |
| Participants | 13 |
| Matches played | 156 |
| Official website | icc-cricket.com |
It features thirteen teams, the twelve Full Members of the International Cricket Council (ICC), and the Netherlands, who won the 2015–17 ICC World Cricket League Championship to qualify for this competition.[6] Each team will play an ODI series against eight of the other twelve teams, four series at home and four away. Each series consists of three ODI matches.[7]
The COVID-19 pandemic affected the start of the league, with several series of matches being postponed. In April 2020, following a Chief Executives' meeting, the ICC announced that it would look at the future of the league at a later date, once there is a better understanding of the impact of the pandemic on cricket.[8][9] The series between England and Ireland, starting 30 July 2020, were the first matches of the league.[10][11]
Following a trial that started in December 2019,[12] the ICC announced the use of technology to monitor front-foot no-balls for all matches in the Super League.[13] The third umpire called the front-foot no-balls, communicating this with the on-field umpires.[14]
Teams and qualification pathway
Thirteen teams qualified:
- Full Members of the ICC:
- Winners of the 2015–17 ICC World Cricket League Championship:
For the World Cup, the hosts (India), and the top seven sides thereafter, will qualify automatically. The remaining five teams will play in a qualifying event—the 2022 Cricket World Cup Qualifier—along with five Associate sides, from which two sides will go through to the World Cup.[16]
The top twelve teams in this Super League remain in the Super League for the next World Cup cycle. The 13th ranked team in this Super League could be relegated to the next Cricket World Cup League 2. Of the 13th ranked team in this Super League and the champions of the 2019–22 ICC Cricket World Cup League 2, whichever of these two teams is ranked higher in the Cricket World Cup Qualifier will take the 13th spot in the next Super League while the team ranked lower will play in the next League 2.[17][18]
Format
The tournament is a partial round-robin league and will be played over two years. Each team will play eight other opponents, four at home and four away, in series consisting of three ODI matches. This means that a given team will not face all other opponents in their group, but all teams will play the same number of matches (i.e., 12 matches at home and 12 matches away).[19]
Points are awarded as follows:[19]
- Win – 10 points
- No result or abandoned – 5 points
- Loss – 0 points
- If a match is abandoned and the pitch or outfield is declared unfit by the ICC Pitch and Outfield Monitoring Process, then the match will be awarded to the visiting team.[19]
- A team that is behind the required over-rate at the end of a match will have one competition point deducted for each over it is behind.[19]
- Tied matches will be decided by a Super Over. If a Super Over is a tie, subsequent Super Overs shall be played until there is a winner.[20]
Schedule
The match schedule was announced by the ICC on 20 June 2018 as part of the 2018–23 ICC Future Tours Programme.[21][22]
Therefore, the four countries that each side will not face in this tournament, are as follows.
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic began before the start of the league, which was originally scheduled for May 2020 to March 2022, and resulted in no international cricket being played from March to July 2020.[23] All Super League fixtures scheduled for 2020 were postponed or rescheduled with considerations for pandemic-related restrictions.[24] Fixtures after also had to be reconsidered to account for the disruptions to the schedule.[25]
Bangladesh's matches against Ireland were postponed on 21 March 2020.[26] In April 2020, South Africa's tour to Sri Lanka was postponed.[27] The same month, Pakistan's tour of the Netherlands and the West Indies tour of the Netherlands were both postponed, after the Dutch government banned all events in the country, both sports and cultural, until 1 September 2020.[28] On 15 May 2020, Cricket Ireland confirmed that the tour by New Zealand had also been postponed.[29] On 12 June 2020, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) confirmed that it had called off their tours to Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka.[30] On 30 June, Cricket Australia confirmed that their planned home series against Zimbabwe had also been postponed due to the virus.[31][32] New Zealand's tour of the West Indies was postponed, after the fixtures clashed with the West Indies rescheduled tour to England.[33][34] In August 2020, the Netherland's tour of the Zimbabwe was cancelled due to the pandemic.[35][36]
The first matches of the Super League were Ireland's 3-match ODI series in England which were originally scheduled for September 2020 but brought forward to July and August with all three matches taking place in Southampton.[37][38][39] Australia's tour of England, which was originally to take place in July 2020, was postponed and took place in September 2020.[40] England's tour of South Africa was postponed following an outbreak of COVID-19 among members of both teams and the hotel staff.[41]
In December, the ICC rescheduled the postponed series to a new schedule which would end in March 2023.[4]
League table
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Ded | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Australia |
6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 0.347 | Qualification for the 2023 Cricket World Cup[lower-alpha 1] |
| 2 |  Bangladesh |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 1.893 | |
| 3 |  England |
6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 0.790 | |
| 4 |  Afghanistan |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 0.527 | |
| 5 |  Pakistan |
3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0.741 | |
| 6 |  Zimbabwe |
3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | −0.741 | |
| 7 |  Ireland |
6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 10 | −1.076 | |
| 8 |  India (Q) |
3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | −0.693 | |
| 9 |  New Zealand |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | Qualification for the 2023 Cricket World Cup Qualifier[lower-alpha 2] |
| 10 |  South Africa |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | |
| 11 |  Sri Lanka |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | |
| 12 |  Netherlands |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | |
| 13 |  West Indies |
3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1.893 |
(Q) Qualified to the phase indicated.
Notes:
- India qualify automatically as hosts.
- Bottom team from the Super League will be relegated to League 2 if they finish ranked below the champions of the 2019–23 League 2 in the 2023 Qualifier.
In the event that two or more teams have the same number of points, the following tie-breaking procedure is used:[19]
- The team that has won a greater number of matches will be placed higher.
- If still equal, the team with the higher net run rate will be placed higher.
- If still equal, the team that is ranked in the higher position in the ICC Men's ODI Team Rankings on 1 July 2020 shall be placed higher.
Fixtures
2020
England v Ireland
This series was originally scheduled for September 2020 but was rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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England v Australia
This series was originally scheduled for July 2020 but was rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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2020–21
Pakistan v Zimbabwe
This series was originally scheduled to begin in November 2020.[22]
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Match tied (Zimbabwe won the Super Over) Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi Points: Zimbabwe 10, Pakistan 0 |
Australia v India
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Bangladesh v West Indies
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Bangladesh won by 6 wickets Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Dhaka Points: Bangladesh 10, West Indies 0 |
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Bangladesh won by 7 wickets Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Dhaka Points: Bangladesh 10, West Indies 0 |
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Bangladesh won by 120 runs Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong Points: Bangladesh 10, West Indies 0 |
Afghanistan v Ireland
24 January 2021 Scorecard |
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Afghanistan won by 7 wickets Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium, Abu Dhabi Points: Afghanistan 10, Ireland 0 |
West Indies v Sri Lanka
New Zealand v Bangladesh
India v England
This series was originally scheduled for September 2020. However, with the Indian Premier League being rescheduled to September–November 2020, this series was postponed to March 2021.[25]
South Africa v Pakistan
This series was originally scheduled for October 2020 but was rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021
Bangladesh v Sri Lanka
This series was originally scheduled for December 2020 but was rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Netherlands v Ireland
West Indies v Australia
Zimbabwe v Bangladesh
England v Sri Lanka
Ireland v South Africa
England v Pakistan
Sri Lanka v Afghanistan
Ireland v Zimbabwe
2021–22
Afghanistan v Pakistan
South Africa v Netherlands
Bangladesh v England
India v South Africa
Pakistan v New Zealand
Zimbabwe v Afghanistan
Pakistan v West Indies
Afghanistan v Netherlands
West Indies v Ireland
Australia v South Africa
India v West Indies
New Zealand v Netherlands
Bangladesh v Afghanistan
Pakistan v Australia
New Zealand v India
South Africa v Bangladesh
Afghanistan v Australia
Netherlands v England
The tour was originally scheduled for May 2021 but was postponed by a year.[43]
Ireland v Bangladesh
This series was originally scheduled for May 2020 but was rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sri Lanka v South Africa
This series was originally scheduled for June 2020 but was rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ireland v New Zealand
This series was originally scheduled for June 2020 but was rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sri Lanka v India
This series was originally scheduled for June 2020 but was rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Netherlands v Pakistan
This series was originally scheduled for July 2020 but was rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
West Indies v New Zealand
This series was originally scheduled for July 2020 but was rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Netherlands v West Indies
This series was originally scheduled for July 2020 but was rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Australia v Zimbabwe
This series was originally scheduled for August 2020 but was rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Zimbabwe v India
This series was originally scheduled for August 2020 but was rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Zimbabwe v Netherlands
This series was originally scheduled for September 2020 but was rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe
This series was originally scheduled for October 2020 but was rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Australia v New Zealand
This series was originally scheduled for January–February 2021 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic until the 2021–22 season.[44]
South Africa v England
This series was originally scheduled for March–April 2021 but was rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. England's tour of South Africa was postponed again in December 2020 following an outbreak of COVID-19 among members of both teams and the hotel staff.[41]
New Zealand v Sri Lanka
This series was originally scheduled for February 2021 but was rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
India v Afghanistan
This series was originally scheduled for March 2021 but was rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Statistics
Most runs
| Team | Batsman | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | Ave | Balls faced | Strike rate | HS | 100s | 50s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | Paul Stirling | 6 | 6 | 0 | 441 | 73.50 | 443 | 99.69 | 142 | 3 | 0 |
| Australia | Glenn Maxwell | 6 | 6 | 1 | 353 | 70.60 | 243 | 145.26 | 108 | 1 | 3 |
| Australia | Aaron Finch | 6 | 6 | 0 | 350 | 58.33 | 414 | 84.54 | 114 | 1 | 3 |
| England | Sam Billings | 6 | 6 | 2 | 315 | 78.75 | 329 | 95.74 | 118 | 1 | 2 |
| England | Jonny Bairstow | 6 | 6 | 0 | 284 | 47.33 | 295 | 96.27 | 112 | 1 | 2 |
| Last Update: 27 January 2021[45] | |||||||||||
Most wickets
| Team | Bowler | Mat | Inns | Wkts | Runs | Overs | BBI | Ave | Econ | SR | 4WI | 5WI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | Adam Zampa | 6 | 6 | 17 | 303 | 60 | 4/54 | 17.82 | 5.05 | 21.1 | 2 | 0 |
| Australia | Josh Hazlewood | 6 | 6 | 10 | 301 | 59 | 3/26 | 30.10 | 5.10 | 35.4 | 0 | 0 |
| England | Adil Rashid | 6 | 6 | 9 | 311 | 57.2 | 3/34 | 34.55 | 5.42 | 38.2 | 0 | 0 |
| Ireland | Craig Young | 6 | 6 | 9 | 323 | 49 | 3/34 | 35.88 | 6.59 | 32.6 | 0 | 0 |
| England | David Willey | 3 | 3 | 8 | 148 | 28.4 | 5/30 | 18.50 | 5.16 | 21.5 | 0 | 1 |
| Afghanistan | Naveen-ul-Haq | 3 | 3 | 8 | 155 | 26.1 | 4/42 | 19.37 | 5.92 | 19.6 | 1 | 0 |
| Last Update: 26 January 2021[46] | ||||||||||||
Highest individual score
| Batsman | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | Team | Opposition | Ground | Match date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Stirling | 142 | 128 | 9 | 6 | Ireland | England | Southampton | 4 August 2020 |
| Paul Stirling | 128 | 132 | 12 | 4 | Ireland | Afghanistan | Abu Dhabi | 24 January 2021 |
| Rahmanullah Gurbaz | 127 | 127 | 8 | 9 | Afghanistan | Ireland | Abu Dhabi | 21 January 2021 |
| Babar Azam | 125 | 125 | 13 | 1 | Pakistan | Zimbabwe | Rawalpindi | 3 November 2020 |
| Sean Williams | 118* | 135 | 13 | 1 | Zimbabwe | Pakistan | Rawalpindi | 3 November 2020 |
| Sam Billings | 118 | 110 | 14 | 2 | England | Australia | Old Trafford | 11 September 2020 |
| Paul Stirling | 118 | 119 | 9 | 6 | Ireland | Afghanistan | Abu Dhabi | 26 January 2021 |
| Last Update: 26 January 2021[47] | ||||||||
Best bowling figures in an innings
| Bowler | Wkts | Runs | Overs | Mdns | Econ | Team | Opposition | Ground | Match date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mohammad Hasnain | 5 | 26 | 10 | 3 | 2.60 | Pakistan | Zimbabwe | Rawalpindi | 3 November 2020 |
| Andrew McBrine | 5 | 29 | 10 | 0 | 2.90 | Ireland | Afghanistan | Abu Dhabi | 21 January 2021 |
| David Willey | 5 | 30 | 8.4 | 2 | 3.46 | England | Ireland | Southampton | 30 July 2020 |
| Iftikhar Ahmed | 5 | 40 | 10 | 2 | 4.00 | Pakistan | Zimbabwe | Rawalpindi | 1 November 2020 |
| Shaheen Afridi | 5 | 49 | 10 | 0 | 4.90 | Pakistan | Zimbabwe | Rawalpindi | 30 October 2020 |
| Blessing Muzarabani | 5 | 49 | 10 | 1 | 4.90 | Zimbabwe | Pakistan | Rawalpindi | 3 November 2020 |
| Last Update: 24 January 2021[48] | |||||||||
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