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ICC gets a slap in the face from weaker teams

Miraz

School Boy/Girl Cricketer
With Pakistan already out of the world cup and India is probably on the way, ICC gets the treatment it deserved from the weaker nations.

The format was faulty and the aim was to filter the weaker nations before the super 8.

Now, if India fails to reach the second round, the approach will backfire and ICC is gonna loose hell lot of money.

Weaker teams ensured their voice is heard.

A public apology is required from Michael Holding and others who were against participation of weaker teams.
 

SirBloody Idiot

Cricketer Of The Year
How would you rather it was scheduled.

I'd have thought two top nations and two lower nations in each group was common sense.
 

Miraz

School Boy/Girl Cricketer
How would you rather it was scheduled.

I'd have thought two top nations and two lower nations in each group was common sense.
Divide the teams into two group. (8 in each group).

Top four teams go to knockout quarter final stage and that leads to semifinal and final.

Simple.
 

JASON

Cricketer Of The Year
Its not the ICC that gets a slap in the face, but rather the World Cup organisers for planning a schedule and printing tickets etc with the Top 8 teams already denoted as the expected participants in the Super 8 .

Their arrogance in doing so is being slapped on the face by Ireland and Bangladesh .
 

SirBloody Idiot

Cricketer Of The Year
There's no need to play any more meaningless games against the minnow nations, that's the reason we changed from eight teams to four for each group.

Yes, Ireland won, but is there any point in seeing the Dutch or Bermudans get smashed in four games?
 

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
With Pakistan already out of the world cup and India is probably on the way, ICC gets the treatment it deserved from the weaker nations.

The format was faulty and the aim was to filter the weaker nations before the super 8.

Now, if India fails to reach the second round, the approach will backfire and ICC is gonna loose hell lot of money.

Weaker teams ensured their voice is heard.

A public apology is required from Michael Holding and others who were against participation of weaker teams.
That's nonsense, I$C$C has been one of the few to have these delusions about the strength of the substandard sides. The format was well-designed and unfortunately India and Pakistan's amateurish performances have ****ed it up.
 

_Ed_

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Bangladesh and Ireland playing well may have played a part in that too.
 

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
However well they may have played, India and Pakistan's players remain notably superior and for them to lose required extreme paucity on their part.
 

marc71178

Eyes not spreadsheets
Its not the ICC that gets a slap in the face, but rather the World Cup organisers for planning a schedule and printing tickets etc with the Top 8 teams already denoted as the expected participants in the Super 8 .
What they did actually makes a heck of a lot of sense from a logistical point of view - it means a country knows well in advance which venues they'll have to play at and when, rather than finding out a few days before the first super 8 game.

By reputation, the West Indian transport network isn't the most organised, so it would have been chaos.
 

Poker Boy

State Vice-Captain
No this is a good format. It gives the minnows a chance and it punishes complacencncy. In the past big teams have lost to minnows and it has not cost them (England '92, WI '96, Pakistan '99 and SL 2003) this time it does. Pakistan were PATHETIC - especially Akmaal and Mahmood - what were they thinking of? All they had to do was saty in - Pakistan would probably have defended 180 - and they play shots like that. PS - my newsagent is Pakistani and I'd like to write what he said about that performance buit you don't allow swear words...PPS -and if England don't sober up quick it could be THREE minnows in Super 8..
 

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
England did NOT lose to a substandard side in 1992.

That same country had 9 years previously had a good enough team to beat Australia in a far more sensational result.
 

Miraz

School Boy/Girl Cricketer
With India and Pakistan out of the world cup, ICC is in dire straits in terms of revenue earning.

if that's not a slap it's probably womething worst. :laugh:
 

SpaceMonkey

International Debutant
I dont see what the argument is? India lost 2 out of their 3 games and were rightly knocked out. A team progresses in a cup competition on merit not on size or monetary value.

Theres no point having early games that are meaningless. Just to raise money for a greedy ICC.
 

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