"Ireland has worked very hard over recent years to prove itself as the leading associate side and has beaten a number of full members over the years.
England are currently sixth in the rankings – they would be assured of their place as tournament hosts – and were the cut-off point to occur today, full members Bangladesh, West Indies, Pakistan and Zimbabwe, along with leading associate sides Ireland and Afghanistan, would vie with four additional teams for the final four places.
The six leading associate members - Afghanistan, Hong Kong, Ireland, Papua New Guinea, Scotland and the United Arab Emirates - currently have one-day international status, but are not able to play Test matches.
The six leading associate members - Afghanistan, Canada, Ireland, Kenya, Netherlands and Scotland - currently have one-day international and Twenty20 status but are not able to play Test matches.
There's a massive difference between 13th in the world and the top 10 [Test sides]." The International Cricket Council recently announced that the leading associate nation would play the bottom Test side in 2018, with the winner granted 'Test' status.
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis is the leading associated systemic disease in most of the previous studies on childhood uveitis [2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 15 17].
The leading associated comorbid conditions for which the patients received treatments were malaria (60, 54.1%), vaso-occlusive crises (58, 52.2%), and severe anemia (44, 39.6%), and many of the patients were treated for more than one comorbid condition (Table 2).
As part of this professional quest, Pearl had arranged to interview a leading Pakistani associate of the al-Quaida network.
Infections remain a leading complication associated with spinal arthrodesis, regardless of the use of prophylactic antibiotics and improved surgical techniques, with incidence of infection as high as 8.2%.
For example, O157 is a leading O serogroup associated with enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) and is a significant food-borne pathogen worldwide.
