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Group B - Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Bermuda
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wpdavid
Hall of Fame Member
Hurdle sent down a straight enough one that wasn't a no-ball?
Mahindinho
State Vice-Captain
50s for both Mahela and Sanga now 
Hopefully this'll be the innings that Mahela needs to get back into form...dropped twice already by The Fat Man, though.
Hopefully this'll be the innings that Mahela needs to get back into form...dropped twice already by The Fat Man, though.
legglancer12
School Boy/Girl Captain
King Lev gets sanga !
Magrat Garlick
Global Moderator
Bermuda are...so...atrocious.
Why couldn't Denmark have won that game two years ago? We'd be a hundredfold chanting "vi er røde, vi er hvide" down in Trinidad now...
Why couldn't Denmark have won that game two years ago? We'd be a hundredfold chanting "vi er røde, vi er hvide" down in Trinidad now...
Pup Clarke
Cricketer Of The Year
They're dire because their amateurs compared to professional cricketers.TBH they shouldn't be at the WC as they're just getting embarrased especially with the bat.
PhoenixFire
International Coach
Getting worse, dire in the extreme.
Neil Pickup
Cricket Web Moderator
So are Scotland, Holland, Ireland and Canada.
Bermuda are still a class below those four. On these showings they'd struggle in an English County Premier League.
Pup Clarke
Cricketer Of The Year
Bermuda IMO are way below Scotland and Ireland and still quite far behind Holland and Canada.The other associates deserve to be hear but not Bermuda.I'd hardly call Scotland and Ireland "dire" however.At least both of these teams can at least hold a bat and bowl reasonably well.
Neil Pickup
Cricket Web Moderator
I wasn't calling them dire; I was pointing out that the excuse of being amateur didn't hold water to explain Bermuda's incompetence as the other four associates are also amateur, and, as you point out, at least vaguely talented.
(Hopes people will stop using 'dire')Pup Clarke
Cricketer Of The Year
It's not Bermuda's fault that their so bad.They just shouldn't be at the WC.It's as simple as that.They are just going to get embarassed in all three of their games and it really isn't good for cricket or for Bermuda in helping them to develop.
Evermind
International Debutant
Their population is 66,000 or so. How far do you think they're gonna develop?
But yes, agreed that they certainly shouldn't be at the WC. There should be at most 4 teams outside the top 8 - Bangladesh for sure, then maybe Kenya, and the rest of them can fight it out for the other 2 places.
From what I see, Bangladesh will no doubt become a fully competent team like SL in the next decade or so. Scotland and Ireland do have a promising future - they have the population and the interest to support the game (history of cricket in the UK - but I'm not sure how much interest the game has historically commanded outside of England). But I'm really not so sure about Bermuda and some of the other teams. Is there a future for cricket there?
PhoenixFire
International Coach
Population means nothing. Australia > India, and they have 983,000,000 more people than them (aprox).
silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
Population does mean something. The Australia > India is due to a hundred different things (infrastructure, coaching, boards, no opportunities for kids), and the only reason India is even able to stay competitive is that it has a big population to draw from. It becomes extremely hard to learn how to play proper cricket when 95% of the population only has a concrete road for a ''pitch", a 15-yard open space as a field and a tennis ball to play with.
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