Nine teams have been confirmed alongside Sri Lanka for the ICC World Cup qualifier.

The other associate teams in the World Cup Qualifier are the USA, UAE, Zimbabwe, Scotland, Oman and Nepal, who each qualified via a top-three finish in the World Cup League Two ODI competition which ran from 2019 through 2023.

They will be joined by the bottom five teams in the ODI Super League: Netherlands, Zimbabwe, West Indies, Sri Lanka and one of either South Africa or Ireland.

South Africa currently sits in eighth place, but Ireland still has three ODIs remaining against Bangladesh scheduled for May.

Should Ireland win all three, they would be level with South Africa on points in which case net run rate would serve as the tiebreaker to decide which team clinches an automatic berth to the 2023 World Cup and which team falls back into the qualifier in Zimbabwe. (NewsWire)