England’s Champions trophy loss may hinder 2027 ODI World Cup qualification.

Delhi: Jose Butler’s team England lost by eight runs in Lahore, causing them to face the second consecutive defeat in the 2025 Champions Trophy. Earlier, he had to face defeat to Australia at the same site.

Only 4 wins in 16 ODIs

Equal problems came to light in both matches and questions have started to arise about the future of England’s 50-over team. Since the last World Cup, England have won only 4 matches out of 16 ODIs. In the last World Cup, he won only 3 out of 9 matches (who were against Bangladesh, Netherlands and Pakistan).

This is a sharp decline for any team, as they won the 2019 World Cup and 2022 T20 World Cup. If his poor form continues, England may find it difficult for the 2027 World Cup in qualification.

How does the qualification for the 2027 World Cup work?

There are two routes for the 2027 World Cup – automatic and via qualifiers. This time the World Cup will be 14 teams, in which 10 teams will automatically qualify and the remaining 4 teams will come to play the qualifier.

England’s early exit from the 2025 champions trophy, was their ninth loss in ten matches with Brendon McCullum as White-Ball Coach.

Serious questions must be asked about what he has brought to the setup so far, writees @Yas_wisden,

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– Wisden (@Wisdencrick) February 27, 2025

Automatic qualification will be as follows

The top 8 full member countries will be automatically qualified in the two hosts of the tournament, South Africa and Zimbabwe, as well as the ICC ODI rankings. The ranking will be till 31 March 2027.

Why is England threatened in automatic qualification?

Today (27 February, 2025), according to the ODI rankings, England are ranked 7th. His rating is 89, which is slightly above Afghanistan (87), who ranked 8th. At the same time, the ranking difference between Sri Lanka (99) and Bangladesh (80) is large.

South Africa is ranked 5th and Zimbabwe 11th, which means that if England’s form is poor, they can fall to 9th or 10th position in the rankings. If Zimbabwe stays out of the top 10 and South Africa lives in it, England will not get automatic qualification.

Who may have to face England in the qualifier?

Currently the teams participating in the CWC qualifier include USA, Oman, Canada and Scotland. Apart from these, there will be a tournament between Netherlands, Namibia, Nepal, UAE, Jersey, Papua New Guinea, Uganda and Italy, which will include the top four teams in the qualifier.

Apart from this, West Indies and Ireland may also have to participate in the qualifier, as they are at the bottom of the ranking. If England falls very down in the rankings, they will definitely participate in the qualifier, although they will be preferred to play in the World Cup by staying on top in this qualifier.

This will be a major decline for England, because they have never had to go through this process before. Before the 2023 World Cup, Sri Lanka and West Indies also had to participate in the qualifier. Sri Lanka had reached the World Cup, but the West Indies could not reach, and the Netherlands had made it to.

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