ICC Twenty 20 Cricket World Cup 2010

[Tee]

Starts of Friday


Group A: Australia, Bangladesh, Pakistan

Group B: New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe

Group C: Afghanistan, India, South Africa

Group D: England, Ireland, West Indies


I fancy the winner to be from India or West Indies.

Pakistan (reigining Champs ) are too unpredictable to predict, but if they turn up then they could go all the way again.

Ireland v England should be interesting.

[Neil Young]

Ireland v England should be interesting.

If only because Morgan is playing for both sides.

[Shaggy]

Meh

[Neil Young]

Meh

Bowler bowls, batter smashes it in outer space, dancers cavort, crowd lose all sense of proportion, scoreboard ticks over.

Same again.

[Baracus]

A world cup every year. Thats just ****e. I just remembered Pakistan won it last time. Forgot it was last Year. Talk about milking a fromat.

[Shaggy]

A world cup every year. Thats just ****e. I just remembered Pakistan won it last time. Forgot it was last Year. Talk about milking a fromat.

Total joke isn't it. It completely lessens the tournament's impact and gravitas. ****e. I won't be watching.

[Tee]

I understand that it will revert to every 2 years after this one. This one was brought forward because the main ICC WC will be in 2011 and would have clashed.

[Shaggy]

Ah. Organisational fail!

[Baracus]

England got robbed by the crappy D/L method. ****e rule which I don't understand

[Ben_Itez]

Absolutely farcical.

England posted the highest total of the tournament with most sixes yet get well and truly robbed by the D/L method. Surely you can't apply it after 5 overs.

[Tee]

Absolutely farcical.

England posted the highest total of the tournament with most sixes yet get well and truly robbed by the D/L method. Surely you can't apply it after 5 overs.

The rules are there for everyone, so it is a case of very tough luck England. Did not deserve that but Windies did rip some to get that score in 5.5 overs.

[Scratch]

Not really...5.5 overs, 10 wickets in hand, 60 needed...piece of piss really, the windies nearly messed it up tho, one ball to spare...

But the D/L method does not work for the 20/20 format of the game, not even close...it needs seriously altering, and taking into account that 20/20 is basically a slogfest.

[dww]

I guess for the first few years the stats weren't there to realign Duckworth Lewis but you would think the IPL would now have helped solve that. Even a relatively ad-hoc correction system as a temporary measure would be good.

[Neil Young]

It seems to me it makes a big difference if the team batting second know the rain is coming.

[dww]

It seems to me it makes a big difference if the team batting second know the rain is coming.

Ideally if you were calculating the worth of assets (i.e. wickets and balls left) in a second innings using something like Duckworth-Lewis type principles you would think enough data would mean that would come out in the wash.