Oman and USA have ensured to be the ODI nation. Last year, Nepal got the ODI status after the worldcup selection games. Before these teams, the 12 test teams, Scotland, UAE, Nepal and Netherlands were the current teams who has ODI status. ICC has planned to give ODI status to four best teams participating in the Divison 2. After this tournament, there will be a total of 20 nations who will have the ODI status. In the current Division 2 games, USA is sure to be among the top 4 teams to receive the ODI status while Oman has won four games in a row to ensure their ODI status. Nepal is in the 14th place in the current ODI rankings.
Oman has already defeated USA, Canada and Hongkong in their matches. Canda has defeated Papua New Guinea by 3 wickets which ensured ODI status of Oman. In their next match, Oman registered their win against Namibia as well. This is the first time Oman has ever got the ODI status. At present, Oman is the 17th nation who has got the ODI status.
Oman played Division 5 in 2016, Division 4 in 2017 and Division 3 in 2019. They took 3 years for their road to ODI. Oman looks like a promising team with the players from India and Pakistan origin in their team !
USA is coached by Pubudu Dassanayake. The man who coached Nepal for few years after Roy Dias left as a coach of Nepal. Both are Srilankan players in the past. After USA's first defeat with Oman, they defeated Namibia, PNG and Hongkong to ensure ODI status for their country. Nepal did not got ODI status at the time of Pubudu, but USA achieved this in his period.
In their last match, USA defeated Hongkong by 84 runs to enter to be the member among the ODI nations. USA made 281 runs while HongKong was dismissed in 196 runs in the match. This is the first time USA ha received ODI status officially. In 2004, USA played ICC Champions Trophy, in that tournament USA had the ODI status temporarily for the tournament.
There are still 2 teams who can be the ODI nation. At present, Namibia has 2 wins and 2 losses while Hongkong, Canada and PNG has 1wins and 3 losses each. All these 4 teams have played 4 matches each. Let's hope the two best team among these four will get the ODI status.
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