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Best & Worst Cricket Tournaments?

laksh_01

State Vice-Captain
Wat are the best & worst Cricket Tournaments Ever Held?

According to me:

The Best::cool:
2003 ICC Cricket World Cup
2008 T20 World Championship
2004 ICC Champions Trophy

The Worst::@
2005 Johnny Walker Super series
2005 Afro - Asia Cup
2007 Afro - Asia Cup

 

Precambrian

Banned
2007 World 20 20 - Superb management, glitz, slim yet satisfying schedule, a whiff of the underdog story Zim beating Aus, Dream final Ind vs Pak.

Worst tournament

Any of the Champions trophies.
07 World cup.
 

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
Best tournaments (multi-team only):
1991/92 World Cup
1999 World Cup
2006/07 Champions Trophy

Worst:
1995/96 World Cup
2002/03 World Cup
2007 World Cup
2002 Champions Trophy
2004 Champions Trophy
Anything involving Twenty20, not because of organisational woes, but because the format lacks appeal to me.
 

pup11

International Coach
Best tournaments (multi-team only):
1991/92 World Cup
1999 World Cup
2006/07 Champions Trophy

Worst:
1995/96 World Cup
2002/03 World Cup
2007 World Cup
2002 Champions Trophy
2004 Champions Trophy
Anything involving Twenty20, not because of organisational woes, but because the format lacks appeal to me.
Typical Richard in action there.:)
 

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
Best is the 92 WC, worst probably 07 or maybe 03, yeah 03 because of all the politics
 

haroon510

International 12th Man
07 world cup was the worst world cup i have ever seen..

best one has to be 99 world cup
 

Somerset

Cricketer Of The Year
Wat are the best & worst Cricket Tournaments Ever Held?

According to me:

The Best::cool:
2003 ICC Cricket World Cup
2008 T20 World Championship
2004 ICC Champions Trophy

The Worst::@
2005 Johnny Walker Super series
2005 Afro - Asia Cup
2007 Afro - Asia Cup

The 2008 T20 World Championship? :blink: Interesting...

Didn't rate the 2004 Champions Trophy that highly - ok it had an exciting final and England beating Australia but apart from that??


Personally, the best for me would be the 2001/02 VB Series in Australia, with South Africa and New Zealand in the tri-series (even if the finals were somewhat of a disappointment).

Worst would most likely be the 2007 World Cup
 

JimmyGS

First Class Debutant
The 07 WC was so bad it was embarrassing.

Maybe one of the worst sporting events ever held, not just cricket.
 

laksh_01

State Vice-Captain
The 2008 T20 World Championship? :blink: Interesting...

Didn't rate the 2004 Champions Trophy that highly - ok it had an exciting final and England beating Australia but apart from that??


Personally, the best for me would be the 2001/02 VB Series in Australia, with South Africa and New Zealand in the tri-series (even if the finals were somewhat of a disappointment).

Worst would most likely be the 2007 World Cup
Oops Sorry.

Correction to 2007 T20
 

DaRick

State Vice-Captain
Best Series:
- 2006/07 Champions Trophy
- 1999 World Cup (more than one thriller to go, particularly where Australia was involved)
- 2005/06 VB Series (was compelling during the early stages)
- 1987 World Cup (Australia winning, despite the apparent 20:1 odds)
- 1993/94 Benson and Hedges series (very tight, from what I heard, particularly during the round robin stages)

Worst Series:
- 2007 World Cup (need I say more?)
- 2002/03 World Cup (for the tiresome issues of Zimbabwe, Kenya and ambush marketing)
- 2004 Champions Trophy
- 2005 Super Series (of all the adjectives I'd use to describe it, super would not be among them)
- 1991/92 World Cup (as much for Australia's dire performance as for the rain rules)
- 2000/01 CUB Series (utterly one-sided - and there were three teams!)

T20 tournaments (including the 2007 one, which was better than I expected) aren't considered, as I simply dislike that form of the game.

Has anyone got an opinion on those Asian test cricket tournaments that were played during the late 1990's?
 
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sunilreddy

Banned
Best:

1992,1996 World cup
2007 T20 WC
1998 Titan cup(India defeating RSA in the finals)
1996 Carlton and United involving Pakistan, WI, AUS

Worst:

2007 WC
 

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
T20 World Cup>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>2007 World Cup.
The organisation was on a different plane, as was the good fortune (or lack of misfortune) - no awful deaths of leading cricket figures mid-tournament, no upsets which skewed the tournament of its intended axis, few woeful-quality games between teams that should be relatively evenly-matched.

Nonetheless, purely from the POV that the 2007 World Cup was played with ODIs and the Twenty20 thingy with Twenty20, 2007 WC >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 2007/08 T20 World thingy.
 

Uppercut

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The organisation was on a different plane, as was the good fortune (or lack of misfortune) - no awful deaths of leading cricket figures mid-tournament, no upsets which skewed the tournament of its intended axis, few woeful-quality games between teams that should be relatively evenly-matched.

Nonetheless, purely from the POV that the 2007 World Cup was played with ODIs and the Twenty20 thingy with Twenty20, 2007 WC >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 2007/08 T20 World thingy.
The suggestion that Ireland beating Pakistan ruined that tournament is the one opinion in cricket i absolutely can. not. stand.
 

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