The 2023 ICC Men's Cricket World Cup Qualifier is the 12th edition of the Cricket World Cup Qualifier and is scheduled to take place in June and July 2023 in Zimbabwe.[1] It is the culmination of the 2023 Cricket World Cup qualification process and will decide the final two participants for the 2023 World Cup.[2][3] It is the first time since the 1979 ICC Trophy that the Qualifier has taken place in the same year as the World Cup.
It will feature ten teams in total, the bottom five teams from the 2020–23 World Cup Super League (excluding World Cup hosts India), the top three teams from the 2019–23 World Cup League 2, and the top two teams from the 2023 World Cup Qualifier Play-off. The top two sides from this qualifier will be awarded a spot in the 2023 Cricket World Cup.[4][5]
Originally, it was intended that the top ranked team in the CWC League 2 could be promoted to the next Super League at the expense of the 13th ranked Super League team; but only if the League 2 winner finished as the higher of the two in the 2023 Cricket World Cup Qualifier. The team ranked lower would then have played in the next edition of League 2.[5][6] However, in November 2021 the ICC announced that there would not be a second edition of the Super League.[7]
All matches in the qualifier tournament will have One Day International (ODI) status, even if a team does not have ODI status.[8][9] In July 2020, Zimbabwe Cricket announced their intentions to host the qualifier.[10] Zimbabwe had hosted the previous qualification tournament, in March 2018.[11] In December 2020, Zimbabwe were confirmed as the hosts of the tournament.
