Goughy
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Id be for exploring that option. How would you break down the places available?
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New Feature : A plea for a better World Cup
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I would put Africa and Americas in one Qualifying Pool --- 5 spots(3 Automatic)
Europe and Australia/Oceania in one qualifying pool --- 5 spots(3 Automatic)
Asia in a separate qualifying pool -- 5 spots(4 Automatic)
The bottom finisher in Asia and the bottom two finishers in the other two pools would play a tourney and the top 2 would go through to complete the 12 team.
It would be a long drawn out process, which would ensure that the associates get more games and even if there is a slip up by the test teams they have a chance at redemption
The idea is as follows, In a sunny day situation the 5 spots from Africa/Americas would go to the following : WestIndies, Southafrica, Zimbabwe, -- Automatic Kenya, Canada
The 5 spots from Europe and Australia/Oceania goes to : Australia, New zealand, England, -- Automatic Ireland,Netherlands
Asia -- India, Pakistan,Sri Lanka, Bangladesh -- Automatic, UAE
That would make UAE, Ireland, Netherlands,Kenya, Canada to play a tourney and the top two would go through. Although a format like this could render the games between the test playing nations useless.. we could possibly see some upsets in the Europe pool and the Asian pool and by a long shot say Bangladesh or England could be forced to play in that one-off tourney and redeem themselves.. just something to think about
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I reckon the 20/20 wc should be used as a qualifing stepping stone to the 50 over wc. because 20/20 wc is played twice yearly this will speed up the quality of associates.
so the 20/20 includes 16 teams . 4 groups of 4 with a knock out formular used after the group stage 8 remain... 4 teams.. then the final..
the 12 highest teams will gain automactic entry to the 50 over world cup. because the 20/20 is played twice before the 50 over wc the 20/20 rsults will be averaged out.
based on the last 2 20/20 wc result wins.
1 pak 11 wins 1st
2 RSA 10 wins 2nd
3 sri 8 wins 3rd
4 ind 6 wins 4th
5 nz 5 wins 5th
6 eng 3 wins 6th
7 aus 3 wins 6th
8 wi 3 wins 6th
9 ire 1 win 7th
10 ban 1 win 7th
11 zim 1 win 7th
12 net 1 win 7th
13 sco 0 win
13 ken 0 win
theres your 12 top teams .. nb 20/20 wc have only had 12 participats but it needs to be increased to 16 and 50 over wc reduced to 12 and thats the way it stays..
so the 20/20 includes 16 teams . 4 groups of 4 with a knock out formular used after the group stage 8 remain... 4 teams.. then the final..
the 12 highest teams will gain automactic entry to the 50 over world cup. because the 20/20 is played twice before the 50 over wc the 20/20 rsults will be averaged out.
based on the last 2 20/20 wc result wins.
1 pak 11 wins 1st
2 RSA 10 wins 2nd
3 sri 8 wins 3rd
4 ind 6 wins 4th
5 nz 5 wins 5th
6 eng 3 wins 6th
7 aus 3 wins 6th
8 wi 3 wins 6th
9 ire 1 win 7th
10 ban 1 win 7th
11 zim 1 win 7th
12 net 1 win 7th
13 sco 0 win
13 ken 0 win
theres your 12 top teams .. nb 20/20 wc have only had 12 participats but it needs to be increased to 16 and 50 over wc reduced to 12 and thats the way it stays..
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That's not a bad approach at all.. Actually that will give the associates more chance in the T20 world cup and the games would also be exciting since the associates would have the incentive to win a game even after they are knocked out.
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I think it's a terrible approach. It would be like picking teams for the Rugby Union World Cup from a Sevens Tournament.
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Don't realllly agree with this. It's a trade-off between the "best" team winning and excitement, and in cricket's showpiece event, you have to go with excitement. The teams could all play each other four times in a league to determine the world champion but you'd be completely skipping over all of the excitement of a semi-final and a final- that one match on which everything rides.
But the current format seems absolutely bizarre. You have 50-something matches to decide who the best 8 teams are then 7 matches to decide who the best out of those 8 teams are.