Champions Trophy: why these qualifiers?

By John Cheeran
Has Champions Trophy begun?
Some say yes, it has. Some say, no it is only qualifiers that have started.
Qualifying matches! Whom International Cricket Council is fooling?
Four team are kept outside the elite six. Sri Lanka, West Indies, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh are playing each other for two tickets that will take them into Champions Trophy proper.
Well, do you really want to force Sri Lanka and West Indies, the defending champions, to waste their time against such outfits as Bangladesh and Zimbabwe, the no-hopers?
Everyone knows that Bangladesh and Zimbabwe, in their present content, do not stand a chance to beat Sri Lanka and West Indies...
So why we are having this farce out there?