New Delhi, Oct. 18 -- With just a year to go for the 2027 ODI World Cup, former West Indies batter Shivnarine Chanderpaul today expressed confidence on the two-time World Cup champions to make it through the qualifiers after having missed out on direct qualification before the September 30 cut-off.

For the Caribbean outfit, the route to the tournament will therefore run through the Qualifier in February next year. The team faced the same challenge before the 2023 World Cup but finished fifth in the Super Six stage and failed to advance. That campaign produced a historic low. West Indies missed their first-ever ODI World Cup and subsequently failed to qualify for the 2025 Champions Trophy, a tournament they had not missed since 2013.

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