Cricket world cup discussion thread

sandmanm34 said:
Top 10 teams, 1 pool, play each other once, top 4 teams play the best of 3 semi finals, top 2 contest a single final.. Or is that too many games?? The finalists would play a maximum of 13 matches. How many would the finalists play now in the current format?
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2 pools of 5 (4 games in prelim stage)
Top 2 in each pool go to semi-finals (1 game)
Finals (1 game)

= 6 games for the winner.
 
McT said:
Drop Botha, bring in Lopsy and you have balance in the bowling department.
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I wonder if we placing too much emphasis on the bowling department? I honestly believe it makes little difference who bowls, you going to be chasing plenty on the sub continent. I would inclined to pack the team with batters/bowlers rather than specialist batsman, specialist bowlers. Look at India. They got 7 part time bowlers in their starting 11 but 9 batsmen. Guess that explains how Bangladesh scored 280 against them. But at the end of the day you score 370, you going to win 9/10 regardless of who's bowling and that's my point...
 
MickeyD said:
or

2 pools of 5 (4 games in prelim stage)
Top 2 in each pool go to semi-finals (1 game)
Finals (1 game)

= 6 games for the winner.
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Yeah that could work but is 6 games not too few? I would still like to see a best of 3 semi final.
 
MickeyD said:
It also chases away TV audiences... I lost interest after the first 20 overs today. The earlier game was farcical; watched the first 5 Kenyan wickets fall and then switched off.
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Agree Kenya were piss poor but let's not forget they made the semi's in the 2003 CWC. That's possibly the only argument to continue including the minnows. When they do pull it off it's pretty spectacular. Bangladesh beat India and SA in 2007 CWC and as much as that hurts it was sweeeet.....

Same with Fiji and Samoa in the rugby world cups. Samoa consistently beat Wales and Fiji too had a great world cup in 2007.

I wouldn't consider Samoa and Fiji minnows though but borderline...
 
I don't know whether excluding all the miinnows is the way to go, they just need to plan the World Cup better, the poening game should be a good one and they need to mix and match the games. Maybe plan two games a day, that way you are more likely to have a good game to watch on any given day.

I think 10 teams is just too few. How about 12 teams, four groups of three, top two go into quarter finals, semi finals, then the final.

There needs to be some developement done and the smaller teams need game time against the bigger ones. And let's not forget that the minnows knocked India and Pakistan out of the last World Cup.
 
I like the idea of 2 seperate competitions,1 for the minnows,and 1 for the top teams,but i guess they already have a competition like that to qualify for the world cup.
 
Or what about 2 world cups run concurrently but separately so you have 2 games a day, the 1st being between 2 teams competing in the 2nd tier competition and the 2nd game of the day between 2 teams in the 1st tier.

There is nothing wrong watching a game between Canada and Ireland, even Kenya vs Zim, or Zim vs Bangladesh. Far more entertaining then Sri Lanka vs Ireland... The 1st tier competition should be between the test playing nations...
 
Also maybe the winner from tier 2 has a 3 game playoff against last in tier 1 for a place in the next world cup.Altho i guess this would detract from the world cup feel.
 
MickeyD said:
or

2 pools of 5 (4 games in prelim stage)
Top 2 in each pool go to semi-finals (1 game)
Finals (1 game)

= 6 games for the winner.
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It's probably closest to the right formula, but the organisers will see too few games to generate revenue from.
 
Australia v Zimbabwe

Australia have won the toss and decided to bat first

Australia's team: Watson,Haddin,RT Ponting*, MJ Clarke, CL White, DJ Hussey, SPD Smith, MG Johnson, SW Tait, JJ Krejza, B Lee
Zimbabwe's team: BRM Taylor, CK Coventry, T Taibu†, SC Williams, CR Ervine, E Chigumbura*, P Utseya, SW Masakadza, AG Cremer, CB Mpofu, RW Price
 
And Zim are doing a fantastic job of constriction ... a wicket or two now would make it a job well started.
 
McT said:
And Zim are doing a fantastic job of constriction ... a wicket or two now would make it a job well started.
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agreed, Terrific bowling by them. Aus are: 56/0 after 16 overs
 
AirWolf said:
Are the Aussies in test match mode?
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It seems that way. it's now 61/1 after 18.5 overs. Haddin gone, after a succesful referral by Zimbabwe

BJ Haddin lbw b Utseya 29 (66b 3x4 0x6) SR: 43.93
 
Australia are opening up now. 123/1 after 29. .
Australia RR 4.29
Last 5 ovs 41/0 RR 8.20
 
wallsend said:
It seems that way. it's now 61/1 after 18.5 overs. Haddin gone, after a succesful referral by Zimbabwe

BJ Haddin lbw b Utseya 29 (66b 3x4 0x6) SR: 43.93
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And it is a good thing the referral system is there. Hoping for a few more quick wickets from the boys in red :)
 
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