For me, that last WC was way too long. Their fix is to cut out too many teams. I feel like a good compromise would be to have a schedule that plays 2 matches a day for most of the tournament. Day and day night. If this leads to not enough break time, penalise the lower qualifiers (by ICC ranking) with worse schedules at the start of the tournament- better to get a bad schedule than not get a WC. After the 1st round, penalise the worst performers in round one if needed.
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***Official*** ICC World Cup Qualifiers 2018
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harsh.ag
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I do think that this WC qualifier being organized is a good thing in of itself. At least sets a template for the future WCs. Maybe they can expand it to 4 teams going through next time.
It's not as bad as FIFA where Italy and Netherlands won't be in the WC this time around.
It's not as bad as FIFA where Italy and Netherlands won't be in the WC this time around.
cnerd123
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Here is my preferred WC format:
4 groups of 4. Round robin. Total of 24 games. Play 2 games a day on some weekdays for the lower profile games, schedule the big Full-Member clashes for the weekend and have them be the only fixture for that day. Can get the 24 games done within 2 weeks.
Top 2 from each group progresses to the KO stage. Straight Quarter Finals. 4 games, then 2 games for the Semis, then the final. Space the games out to allow for rest, marketing, building up hype. Can finish the final 7 games within another 2 weeks.
1 month. 16 teams. Done and dusted.
4 groups of 4. Round robin. Total of 24 games. Play 2 games a day on some weekdays for the lower profile games, schedule the big Full-Member clashes for the weekend and have them be the only fixture for that day. Can get the 24 games done within 2 weeks.
Top 2 from each group progresses to the KO stage. Straight Quarter Finals. 4 games, then 2 games for the Semis, then the final. Space the games out to allow for rest, marketing, building up hype. Can finish the final 7 games within another 2 weeks.
1 month. 16 teams. Done and dusted.
Prince EWS
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Yeah I actually totally agree with West Indies and Zimbabwe having to play this tournament despite their elitist crying about it; I just think 4-6 teams should've progressed.
SeamUp
International Coach
The ICC should have made sure this tournament was almost like a world cup. They didn't do enough and it would have given the teams more of an event feel.
At the end of the day if your skills weren't good enough to qualify here it would be a struggle in tournament proper. Rugby matches are 80 minutes long and easily can get multiple games on in one day with no clashing for tv. If the above mentioned by Bolo (minnow scheduling and tv broadcasts wasn't mentioned as an issue by the minnows before I would consider it). 50-over cricketgames take 8 hours minimum compared to other sports.
But have we had some quality matches and close matches in the tournament ? Cricket has won at this tournament because of that but the event could have been made so much better. Not just for fans but the teams as well.
To have no DRS here just meant more money redistributed to the powerful. This was only a bare minimum surely ?
At the end of the day if your skills weren't good enough to qualify here it would be a struggle in tournament proper. Rugby matches are 80 minutes long and easily can get multiple games on in one day with no clashing for tv. If the above mentioned by Bolo (minnow scheduling and tv broadcasts wasn't mentioned as an issue by the minnows before I would consider it). 50-over cricketgames take 8 hours minimum compared to other sports.
But have we had some quality matches and close matches in the tournament ? Cricket has won at this tournament because of that but the event could have been made so much better. Not just for fans but the teams as well.
To have no DRS here just meant more money redistributed to the powerful. This was only a bare minimum surely ?
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
I wouldn't mind it being at the same venue as the World Cup and a little closer to it as well, in the same way they've treated the T20 version of this as a sort of entree to the main event before.
CricAddict
Cricketer Of The Year
Exact same thought ran in my mind too. Instead of being called WC qualifier, they could have just called it as the World Cup with this happening at the same venue as a preliminary round and just preceding the 10 team round. That way, no one would have felt that they missed out on a World Cup. Overdose of cricket at the same time perhaps but the teams wouldn't have felt left out.
CricAddict
Cricketer Of The Year
A semifinal match today. Hoping for a thriller like yesterday.
SeamUp
International Coach
This would be ideal. Be great actually.
StephenZA
Hall of Fame Member
It makes a lot of sense... many major tournaments have a qualifying rounds just before the tournament to get into the main event. This would keep the associates part of the bigger picture without having to many matches during the main tournament
All we can hope is that ICC try to actually listen and fix these issues.
Daemon
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Nah imo we'd just all be angry that they called it the World Cup but it was actually a qualifier, just so the ICC could get away with not playing associates in the main event.
Prince EWS
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Yeah but only if they did that straight away instead of spending a World Cup showing us what the dire alternative was.
Once they unveil this obvious improvement at the next World Cup we'll all be stoked. 5D underwater backgammon from the ICC here, clearly.
flibbertyjibber
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Only danger with that is the winners of this competition might be mentally burnt out before the main event starts and not be able to do themselves justice.
cnerd123
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on the flip side, they may be so jazzed from the win and all warmed up and acclimatized to their conditions that they enter their opening group stage game against India and beat them, causing the ICC to scrap the whole idea and send the qualifiers back to the middle of Africa one year before the real WC without any cameras present.
It's a lose-lose tbh
flibbertyjibber
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Good idea, probably work better than playing Kent 2nd XI etc...
weldone
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couldn't agree more
Baheer Shah should be given a straight run of 10 matches each in both test and ODI format.
andruid
Cricketer Of The Year
Until you have to sort out immigration paperwork and vaccinations for Zimbabweans and Nepalese players so they can play warm up games when Kent 2nd just needed to hop on a bus from down the road.
