this is directed at the author, and at vasu (who has posted a message further explaining the ICC's fundae)
purely hypothetical situation: india wins all 3 group games... bangla upset sri lanka and so finish 2nd in the grp...
going by vasu's explanantion, bangla will be B1 and india will remain B2 - but that doesn't make sense! from what i understand, amongst the two teams that qualify, the higher seeded team will be B1 and the other team will be B2!
so india, havin a higher seeding than bangla should be B1, and bangladesh B2... and thereby upsetting the ICC's best laid plans!!!!!!
RE:interesting stuff... BUT....
by Jaideep Nandi on Mar 16, 2007 02:13 PM Permalink
Well the fundae is that once the B1, B2 business is frozen, they will not be revisited. And hence, in your case, even though Bangladesh is lower than India in ICC ratings, still India will be B2 due to the sheer fact that Bangladesh replaces Sri Lanka in Super 8 from Group B and will also take on their rating as predecided
RE:interesting stuff... BUT....
by Ian Chappel on Mar 17, 2007 08:28 AM Permalink
It doen't matter who come first or who comes second because ultimately all the teams in the super 8 has to play with each other exept with the team with which they played in first round(which qualify with it from first round exp. India will not play with Srilanka in super 8).... For your knowledge, even if Srilanka comes second in the group it will be treated as B1 regardless of points table...top two teams in the group will qulify for the next stage.
For exp. if Bangladesh qualify for the next stage instead of Srilanka it will be treated as B1 regardless of wether its points are lesser then India or not..ok.
