Afghanistan and Ireland have got full membership of the ICC. Through this, they appeared as test-playing nations.

After 17 years, the number of test-playing nations increased. Ireland and Afghanistan have been given unanimous decision on the status of Test status at the ICC meeting held in London on Thursday. From now on there are 12 number of test playing nations.Until 1981, the number of test playing nations was 7. In 1982 Sri Lanka got the status of Test status. Then in Zimbabwe in 1992 and Bangladesh in 2000, the number is 10. The number of test-playing nation has not increased for 17 years. Today it has increased. Ireland and Afghanistan have won the Test status.Afghanistan gets one-day status in 2011.They played good cricket long before that. But due to the war, Afghanistan's cricket did not have the way to raise its head. Yet they have been playing very well in recent years by overcoming the impact and obstacles of the war. In 2015 Afghanistan played for the first time in a one-day World Cup. Then, in 2016, the T20 World Cup.