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07 Oct 09
12:27
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Group A: Australia, Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Canada, Kenya
Group B: India, South Africa, England, West Indies, Bangladesh, Ireland, Netherlands
Group B: India, South Africa, England, West Indies, Bangladesh, Ireland, Netherlands
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look a bit wonky
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4 qualify from each group?
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Tom is right (for a change). As the only Champions Trophy semi-finalists in Group B, England must be very strong favourites to finish top of the group.
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Too many meaningless you can see will happen if only 2 groups and with that quality or lack of it in each group.
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when does the tourney take place. i need to book a few months off !!! :-)
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2011 ;)
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i dont think il be able to take the whole year off Step
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You might need to
Last one was about as long :D |
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how many dead rubbers will we get?
Spread is 6.0-7.5 |
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do 4 sides qualify into the "super" 8 as before
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Doubt it. would be more games than last time! :0
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it's 4 go through. presumably you carry forward the results from the other 3 qualifiers and then play the other 4. still 12 games to win it.
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can see europe dominating group b
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organisers reckon they've made a radical change in downsizing the tournament from 51 games to 49!!
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Is this for real? Just said on Talksport there is no super 8 stage.
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how come afghanistan are not playing .. they beat the netherlands recently and lets face it if zimbabwe are there why not the afghans
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42 in group stage
16 in super 8 then?? final?? 2 games a day will take a month. lol. |
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the bigger groups mean less chance of a big team going out with 1 bad performance, you'd imagine of the the course of 21 group games the top sides will go through, personally i think it should go straight to semi finals
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that's what i work it out as bend with semi's as well makes it a 61 game tournament!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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is it not a super 6 after the group?
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49 games according to Wiki.
29 in India 12 in SL 8 in Bang |
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49 would make it 42 group games
quarter Finals 4 semi Finals 2 And one super MEGADOG Final = 49 games |
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can't be 49. 42 in the group stage for a kick off.
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If 4 qualify is there any point in playing Group A games .
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No 2nd group stage, the group stage is simply a way of setting up which of the big 7 + either Ireland or Bangladesh plays who in the quarter final stage. something 1 game (ireland v bang) and a draw could have done. But should still be good fun, hard to see a major nation not making the top 4 of their group with such a lot of matches in the group stage.
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Gonna be soooooo many dead rubbers!!! ffs! Spread on dead rubbers up to 8.0-9.5 |
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windies will get through, will be sorted by then
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seems an even worse format than the last one if that's possible. don't the icc watch the champions league (football).
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that takes 10 months
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Throw 2 extra teams in there afgans and bermuda or usa whatever, make it 4 groups of 4
24 group games top 2 qualify from each straight to QF 4 games semi finals 2 games Final 1 game 31 games could be all done in 3 weeks 2 games a day group stages = 12 days 2 day break 2 QF one day 2QF the next, 1 day break 1st Sem Final next day 2nd Semi Final 1 day Break Final 21 days all done everyone happy, very little chance of any dead games. also chance of upsets due to short group format. |
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Dougy - I think you'll find it's the chance of upsets is what the organisers are actively trying to avoid.
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I like your plan though - makes perfect sense to me.
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I like that idea dougy apart from the having 2 quarter finals on the same day. Gotta be able to watch all the quarters in their entirety. would be too long to play one after the other.
If they were only 40 overs long however.... ;) |
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This looks like the crappest format ever devised
42 pretty pointless matches and then sudden death to see who's best at tossing a coin. |
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i wonder who was really behind this format .. media perhaps :0
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bcci nap
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i like the format :D
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Logically the supporters of the weaker teams will like the format ...
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Lori 07 Oct 16:15
This looks like the crappest format ever devised 42 pretty pointless matches and then sudden death to see who's best at tossing a coin. In india, Sri Lanka and Pakistan Can't wait. |