Before the qualifying round when the team lined up everyone knows Afghanistan will qualify if they do not that would be a shock at this level. Afgan has some quality players and they have the ability to win vs. Test playing nation in shorter version of the game. Ireland also secured their place from group A. Afgan will have to play the opening round of next year's World Twenty20, which is effectively a qualifying round for the Super 10 stage of the tournament. In the opening round, they will be grouped with Ireland , Bangladesh and Zimbabwe and four other Associates who will be determined by this week. Afgan started the tournament with a shocking lose to Holland but they have regroup and won 6 matches in a row mostly their matches was one sided as none of the teams in group had quality to match Afghan’s skills. Afgan and Irish are in a different class then other teams in this qualifying round, ICC need to rethink about T20/ODI structures if they want to globalised the cricket it’s a high time to give Irish and Afgan direct entry to world cup so the other teams will have a chance to enter in a big event. There are several Afghan and Irish players can fit into any test teams. Afgan and Ireland has the experience and skills to challenge Bangladesh and Zimbabwe, ICC should give test status to Afgan and Ireland for 2 years just to see if they can perform well at this level, May be they will do well vs. BD and ZIM.
Afghanistan 148 for 9 (Zadran 50) beat Kenya
114 (Patel 52, Shenwari 5-13) by 34 runs
Papua New Guinea 168 for 5 (Dai 64*, Ura
47) beat Bermuda 143 for 9 (Hemp 64, Tucker 42, Gavera 3-17)by 25 runs
Scotland 205 for 3 (Machan 90*) beat Denmark
130 for 6 (Pedersen 43) by 75 runs
Ireland 207 for 4 (Stirling 77, O'Brien
62*) beat Hong Kong 122 (Atkinson 48, Stirling 4-10) by 85 runs
Canada 105 for 5 (Cheema 34, Munasinghe
3-18) beat Italy 104 for 6 (Crowley 61*, Gordon 3-15) by five wickets
Namibia 125 for 7 (N Scholtz 38, Waiswa
2-26) beat Uganda 87 for 9 (Selowa 35, van der Westhuizen 3-12, B
Scholtz 3-18) by 38 runs
UAE 151 for 5 (Khurram 61*) beat USA
137 for 7 (Taylor 42, Khurram 3-30) by 14 runs
