All the teams barring Kenya and canada are batting well. Netherlands and Ireland are revealitions. In the bowling department only Pakistan, Australia, SriLanka ar doing well. In the fielding aspect, only Australia, South Africa and SriLanka are doing well. It appears on the strength of these the final should be between Australia and Srilanka.
pak beaten by bangla in 1999 wc(?) to promote their (kumbh ke mele me bichhade) brother bangladesh to b given test status. perfect climax.
eng r beaten by ireland their brothers (apart from other brother scotland), forming part of great britain. must b a deal to invite ireland for icc intnl test/odi status.
Re: Re: Re: ireland is supported by eng for test status.
by Mahesh Saoji on Mar 03, 2011 09:19 AM
I don't think at the cost of taking risk at this stage in World cup. If they would have secured their place, yes, they would have taken risk.
tie in world t20 2007 vs pakistan = india won ICC T20 WC 2007 tie in IPL 3 for CSK vs Kings XI = CSK won IPL 3 tie in champions leaue 2010 with warriors = CSK won Champions league 2010 tie in ICC WC 2011 vs England = India will win....
Re: tie in favour of india
by kiran pk on Mar 02, 2011 06:34 PM
india won the match against pak as a result of a tie breaker. so it's technically not a tie. :D
Re: tie in favour of india
by Bhupendra Bari on Mar 02, 2011 05:09 PM
What is this stupid first tie & then win? Those all were chances. May once more chance happen.
I think there is no need to talk about how teams are shaping up because obviously minnows are now going to give threat to big guys of cricket. I think it is just one question that "will Bangladesh qualify for the last 8 or not?" Games like WI vs Netherlands, Srilanka vs Kenya and even today's match can't produce any excitement at all. The format of 1999 and 2003 were best. The ICC has taken the right decision in this step to reduce the teams to just 10 in next world cup. The problem with minnows is that they have 1 or 2 good batsman, when the click teams like Netherlands can score 296 but if these 1 or 2 good batters fails then the situation of the match is just like a cakewalk for big teams ! They also don't have a single quality bowler ! I think these matches are just used for fine tuning by big teams before going for knock out round. So I think the top 8 rank teams will easily qualify for knock out stage, except the Bangladesh suspense who can be a force at home and on any given day they can change the match in their favor against the higher rank teams. They still have 3 big matches i.e. against WI, SA and England and it looks like they have very good chance against all the three if they put up a decent score on board. If they manage to win only one match (which looks a very good possibility) then it will be great for excitement!
I think there is no need to talk about how teams are shaping up because obviously minnows are now going to give threat to big guys of cricket. I think it is just one question that "will Bangladesh qualify for the last 8 or not?" Games like WI vs Netherlands, Srilanka vs Kenya and even today's match can't produce any excitement at all. The format of 1999 and 2003 were best. The ICC has taken the right decision in this step to reduce the teams to just 10 in next world cup. The problem with minnows is that they have 1 or 2 good batsman, when the click teams like Netherlands can score 296 but if these 1 or 2 good batters fails then the situation of the match is just like a cakewalk for big teams ! They also don't have a single quality bowler ! I think these matches are just used for fine tuning by big teams before going for knock out round. So I think the top 8 rank teams will easily qualify for knock out stage, except the Bangladesh suspense who can be a force at home and on any given day they can change the match in their favor against the higher rank teams. They still have 3 big matches i.e. against WI, SA and England and it looks like they have very good chance against all the three if they put up a decent score on board. If they manage to win only one match (which looks a very good possibility) then it will be great for excitement!
This world cup is one of the most boring world cup with second grade teams being included resulting in a one sided match. World cup foot ball is much much better where all the teama are atleast top class and there is not a huge difference betweens the playing standards.
Re: Re: All Class teams for C class Cup
by vinay on Mar 04, 2011 12:34 AM
hahaha. in fact, asia cup, all asian teams like japan, chin, afghan, burma, myanmar, etc, shud b included n asia cup shud last for 35 days!!! the biggest event than wc!
