2007 Cricket World Cup qualification

The 2007 Cricket World Cup was contested between 16 of the 97 countries that were members of the International Cricket Council at the time. The 11 teams with One Day International status at the time of drafting qualified automatically for the World Cup. Meanwhile, the 86 other members of the ICC played off in a series of tournaments, forming the Cricket World Cup qualification process, to capture one of the remaining five spots in the World Cup.

Similarly to the African Affiliates playoff, the Americas Affiliates Championship was contested in March 2004 to decide the team that would progress through to the next round. Five ICC Affiliate members played off in a round robin format from 23 March to 27 March, playing each other once. TeamPtsPldWL NRNRR2444002.3681843100.8981242201.15964130 1.99804040 2.208

Hosted in Malaysia in June 2004, the ACC Trophy was contested by 15 countries divided into four groups. The tournament then progressed into a knockout phase, with the top two teams from each group progressing to the quarter finals. At the end of the tournament, the runner up Oman and the winner United Arab Emirates secured themselves a spot in the ICC Trophy. Kuwait, Qatar and Nepal finished third, fourth and fifth, and play in the World Cup Qualifying Series Division 2 2005.

Both Namibia and Uganda qualified for the ICC Trophy after they finished ahead of the other four teams in a round robin tournament played in Zambia in August 2004. TeamPtsPldWL RRFRRANRRQualification255505.112.312.802005 ICC Trophy205413.772.990.78105233.583.98 0.40World Cup Qualifying Series Division 2 2005105234.244.59 0.3555143.344.91 1.5755143.015.08 2.07

Bermuda hosted the 2004 Americas Cricket Championship in July 2004, which was played as a round robin tournament with the top three out of the six teams progressing through to the ICC Trophy. TeamPtsPldWLNRNRRQualification2055002.1572005 ICC Trophy1654102.1321253200.94485230 0.198World Cup Qualifying Series Division 2 200545140 2.00705050 2.226

The 2005 ICC Trophy was a cricket tournament held in Ireland between 1 July and 13 July. It was an international one day tournament played over 50 overs per side between 12 associate members of the International Cricket Council. It came with the prize of a place in the 2007 Cricket World Cup (and together with it a share of US$2,500,000 for future development) for the five top ranked teams, and with the prize of official One Day International status from 1 January 2006 (until the 2009 ICC Trophy) for the five top ranked teams along with Kenya, who had already been given official one day status till the 2009 Trophy. On 7 July, Ireland, Bermuda, Scotland and Canada qualified for the semi finals. With that, they also won places in the 2007 Cricket World Cup and, from 1 January 2006, official One Day International status. On 11 July, the Netherlands also achieved this by beating the UAE to finish fifth. Scotland won the tournament, beating Ireland in the final.