ICC has used seeding (which refers to rankings BEFORE the tournament) to schedule the super eight matches which I think is a brilliant idea. It gives some idea to the thousands of people who are paying quite a bit to travel to the west indies about where they need to go to see their favorite teams.
At the same time this idea does NOT give any advantage to any team. If Bangladesh defeats India or SriLanka, they will advace to Super Eight. (i.e. Since SriLanka is B1 and India is B2 does not automatically make them advance). Also, if India finishes top of group B, they will carry forward the points earned against the other team qualifying from B. I.e. being B2 does not put them to any disadvantage.
This article is one of the most ludicrous I have seen by Rediff. Just trying to take advantage of a 'India Vs Pak' headline to get more clicks. Editors at Rediff please do not insult the intelligence of your readers.
And as a footnote, people please compare this world cup's format to the last 4 world cups and you will see that it is the best among them.
RE:ICC got it right, Rediff's got it wrong
by raj on Mar 05, 2007 11:20 PM Permalink
I too agree with you. In 2003 world cup there are lot many matches which are meanigless one-sided matches. The strategy followed in this worldcup will reduce all these kind of matches at super-eights level. Even the no. of matches played are also reduced. As super six strategy was a big flop ICC followed new method of super eight. Rediff dudes, Please go through the wisden edition of 2003 for more details.
RE:ICC got it right, Rediff's got it wrong
by Satish Kulkarni on Mar 06, 2007 12:26 AM Permalink
I disagree with your view that being B2 does not put India to any disadvantage.
It might just. The first team they will meet in the Super 8 will be Aus, they will play them at a venue where A1 would be waiting having already have played a match. They will then play the next match against C1 after a gap of just 1 day.
Then they would have to go to Guyana where A2 (SA?) would have already played 2 matches and got familiar with ground, pitch etc.
