The 2020 ICC T20 World Cup will be played at Australia and the results from today's match is not very encouraging for Sri Lanka. First of all, they could not directly qualify for the Super-12 because of their low rank. So they need to play the preliminary round, unlike the other big teams. And if they lose to the big 3 teams by this much huge margins, then I am afraid that they'll become irrelevant in international cricket.
Are you sure that Srilanka is not confirmed for the next world cup while non international teams playing for qualification can get into the world cup and i am certain that Srilanka will destroy all the teams with ease and if this is true this will be another blunder by the ICC and i really wish that what you say is not true as there is no logic behind that as they can accept who are not at all in the rankings but they will reject top teams playing international cricket
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That is how the format for the 2020 ICC T20 World Cup works.
The top 8 teams have been granted automatic entry to the Super-12 stage. The remaining 4 teams comes from qualification phase, and this phase includes a total of 8 teams (Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and 6 teams from the T20 World Cup Qualifier 2019) . I am not sure why you are so surprised about it. Even during the last T20 world cup, the format was the same (back then, it was Super-10 instead of Super-12).
When the direct qualification slots were decided, Sri Lanka was ranked 9th as per the official ICC T20 rankings, and therefore missed the slot. Bangladesh was ranked 12th. On the other hand, Afghanistan was ranked 7th and they gained direct entry.