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Champions Trophy Groups

Laurrz

International Debutant
apologies if there's a thread on this
from cricinfo

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The groups for this September's Champions Trophy in Pakistan have been announced by the ICC, and India, Pakistan and Australia have been seeded together.

Group A comprises of defending champion and top seed Australia along with India, Pakistan and the West Indies while Group B is made up of the winner of the inaugural event, South Africa, as well as New Zealand, Sri Lanka and England. The groupings were made on the basis of teams' rankings in the ICC ODI Championship table on March 12, the agreed cut-off date.

It was decided in 2005 that from 2008 the tournament would only include the top eight one-day sides exactly six months before the start of the tournament. As a result, Bangladesh, Ireland and Zimbabwe, who hold the last three places in the table, miss out.

The two groups will be played on a round-robin format with the top two sides progressing to the semi-finals. The full tournament schedule and information regarding venues will be announced by the ICC in due course.

Group A Australia (1), India (4), Pakistan (5), West Indies (8)
Group B South Africa (2), New Zealand (3), Sri Lanka (6), England (7)
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predictions anyone? say if this was to be played tomorrow?

Semi Finals-
Australia vs South Africa
India vs Sri Lanka

Final
Australia vs India (of course ;) )

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for Oz, we should go through with India..however we are with two of the most inconsistent teams that can beat anyone (arguable) on their day (mayb windies without lara ..perhaps not...but Pak is a big danger team at home too..)

Yousuf Younis Akhtar Asif and a group of young talented guys... hmmm...
 
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sideshowtim

Banned
true - rephrased
too tough to tell at this instance
interesitng i believe thats aussies next odi match ..the first match of this tourny
Nah, we have a 5 match ODI series in the Windies and the 3 match ODI series against the Bangers before then.
 

Laurrz

International Debutant
Nah, we have a 5 match ODI series in the Windies and the 3 match ODI series against the Bangers before then.
oh haha, still long time then

no real testing teams in that lot..but will give us good momentum if we win i suppose lol
 

andruid

Cricketer Of The Year
It was decided in 2005 that from 2008 the tournament would only include the top eight one-day sides exactly six months before the start of the tournament. As a result, Bangladesh, Ireland and Zimbabwe, who hold the last three places in the table, miss out.
Wow they've even forgotten Kenya are on the ICC ODI Championship table or did they slip out for lack of matches against other teams on the table
 

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
apologies if there's a thread on this
from cricinfo

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The groups for this September's Champions Trophy in Pakistan have been announced by the ICC, and India, Pakistan and Australia have been seeded together.

Group A comprises of defending champion and top seed Australia along with India, Pakistan and the West Indies while Group B is made up of the winner of the inaugural event, South Africa, as well as New Zealand, Sri Lanka and England. The groupings were made on the basis of teams' rankings in the ICC ODI Championship table on March 12, the agreed cut-off date.

It was decided in 2005 that from 2008 the tournament would only include the top eight one-day sides exactly six months before the start of the tournament. As a result, Bangladesh, Ireland and Zimbabwe, who hold the last three places in the table, miss out.

The two groups will be played on a round-robin format with the top two sides progressing to the semi-finals. The full tournament schedule and information regarding venues will be announced by the ICC in due course.

Group A Australia (1), India (4), Pakistan (5), West Indies (8)
Group B South Africa (2), New Zealand (3), Sri Lanka (6), England (7)
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predictions anyone? say if this was to be played tomorrow?

Semi Finals-
Australia vs South Africa
India vs Sri Lanka

Final
Australia vs India (of course ;) )

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Good. Hope we get another excellent tournament. Encouraging to see they might be planning to stick with the successful format employed last time.

BTW, for anyone who might know: are we having a seperate forum again, as in 2004 and 2006? If so, surely needs to be opened fairly promptly?
 

laksh_01

State Vice-Captain
I feel Icc should intraduce Knock Out instead of round robin format... Come on guys it looks like world cup from the second stage...
 

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
I feel Icc should intraduce Knock Out instead of round robin format...
The tournament was a Knockout Trophy rather than a Champions Trophy in its first 2 editions. I much prefer the Champions to Knockout format, TBH. Means no-one travels all that way for 1 game.
 

Athlai

Not Terrible
NZ in Pakistan is better than SA in Pakistan, Sri Lanka is currently not up to their usual standard so I reckon NZ is in with a decent chance, India and Australia being the favourites though.
 

Athlai

Not Terrible
Any day, we should have had them in SA, that ODI series was tighter than any one cares to say. Reckon NZ would be decent money for the trophy itself let alone beating a Saffie team in the sub-continent.
 

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