Stupid format. Absolutely ridiculous. Just when you think the ICC can't get any worse, they come up with a format like this that heavily favours the big teams and gives feckkk all to the smaller nations..,
Why are the minnows playing their own groups first? What a bloody joke. This tournement should have been all inclusive and minnows should have been mixed in with the big boys... Why not have 4 groups of 4, top 2 go through, quarters, semis and final???
ICC knew that with India on a dodgy run, England in disarray, Pakistan inconsistent and windies, Lanka beatable on their day... Some of the minnows would have caused an upset here and there sending one or two teams packing early.... Off course, that effects the ICC bank balance so they've gone with this shoddy format.... Disgrace
The worst thing about this format is that if Afghans beat Bangladesh then the host nation are out of the main draw. So when the main bit kicks in there might not even be a host
Also Group B is the group of death again:
Pakistan
India
Australia
West Indies
Bangladesh
The other group is easy.
Yh group A, even the betting shops would be sweating their pants off, thinking how to set up odds for that. Pak, India, Aus and Wi. will be nice to see which teams do well
Kash, how can you put up stats on T20 and miss out boom boom Afridi?? Sort yourself out man
Boom boom is the golden boy of T20 .Most matches 70, Most MoM 9, Most MoS 3. Only player who scored 1000 runs & 50 plus wickets
They were just T20 WC stats
Looking forward to a bit of T20 action during my week off. Hong Kong v Nepal should be quality...
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DJ, who do you follow? I have to warn you when Pakistan play India it will get very heated here.
Ireland
And then England I guess, although not passionate about them.
Love a good India-Pakistan battle though. Looking forward to the fighting on here
The reason why the minnows are playing first round and not with the top 8 is because otherwise, qualification for the big 8 would have been way to easy.you would have 4 groups of which top 2 qualify, and if teams like hong kong and uae are put in groups which have india pakistan, or australia wi and etc. would that be fair on them?
They would be eliminated even before playing the games.
I think 1st round will get them used to the conditions and they will start picking momentum. I know only few teams will be able to qualify but its fair to them
Ireland
And then England I guess, although not passionate about them.
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Very likely to play each other unless Zimbabwe have other ideas. Won't be long before Ireland get more games against the big boys.
Hopefully!!
I will be cheering on the Irish in that.
Cannot believe they are making Ireland play on Monday... even though it is a morning game there won't be many sober Irish people about!
Not sure they know what St Patricks day is in Bangladesh.
I still have sleepless nights with what Ireland did to Pakistan in 2007 50 over world cup which also happened to be on St Patricks day
are people entering the cricinfo fantasy?
I've done mine Viru. 10 people have joined the league above.
It is called the "Whites" league but that more to do with them being Leeds fans than anything else
I joined because I thought it was a Whites Supremiscist League. Gutting.
Haven't had time.. Will try and spare half an hour later tonight, if not I won't bother.. No point joining late
afridi cricinfo's doesnt start till the first super 10 match. So u still have plenty of time to register there
All you have to do is pick 3 Bengis, 3 Afgans, 3 HK and 2 from Nepal. Takes 5 mins
I've just joined up..... there's about 9 members pending.... who set this league up?? get a move on mate!!
Bengla vs aghanis game should be a good one.... good job its on before the footy..... A Taliban, Liverpool and arsenal victories would do nicely
Didn't know you starting betting? How come your banking on so many teams?
No kash I meant that there is another fantasy cricket that you can join. Cricinfo have their own and its different to this one which is I guess made by ICC.
I think we should have one for that as well. In cricinfo it only starts from the super 10 matches. Since this guy isnt updating his league, and many of us are still pending it wont be a bad idea to have it on cricinfo.
http://games.espncricinfo.com/fantasy/homepage.aspx
This is the link, BTW
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posted on 13/3/14
Stupid format. Absolutely ridiculous. Just when you think the ICC can't get any worse, they come up with a format like this that heavily favours the big teams and gives feckkk all to the smaller nations..,
Why are the minnows playing their own groups first? What a bloody joke. This tournement should have been all inclusive and minnows should have been mixed in with the big boys... Why not have 4 groups of 4, top 2 go through, quarters, semis and final???
ICC knew that with India on a dodgy run, England in disarray, Pakistan inconsistent and windies, Lanka beatable on their day... Some of the minnows would have caused an upset here and there sending one or two teams packing early.... Off course, that effects the ICC bank balance so they've gone with this shoddy format.... Disgrace
posted on 13/3/14
The worst thing about this format is that if Afghans beat Bangladesh then the host nation are out of the main draw. So when the main bit kicks in there might not even be a host
Also Group B is the group of death again:
Pakistan
India
Australia
West Indies
Bangladesh
The other group is easy.
posted on 13/3/14
Yh group A, even the betting shops would be sweating their pants off, thinking how to set up odds for that. Pak, India, Aus and Wi. will be nice to see which teams do well
posted on 13/3/14
Kash, how can you put up stats on T20 and miss out boom boom Afridi?? Sort yourself out man
Boom boom is the golden boy of T20 .Most matches 70, Most MoM 9, Most MoS 3. Only player who scored 1000 runs & 50 plus wickets
posted on 13/3/14
They were just T20 WC stats
posted on 13/3/14
posted on 14/3/14
Looking forward to a bit of T20 action during my week off. Hong Kong v Nepal should be quality...
posted on 14/3/14
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DJ, who do you follow? I have to warn you when Pakistan play India it will get very heated here.
posted on 14/3/14
Ireland
And then England I guess, although not passionate about them.
Love a good India-Pakistan battle though. Looking forward to the fighting on here
posted on 14/3/14
The reason why the minnows are playing first round and not with the top 8 is because otherwise, qualification for the big 8 would have been way to easy.you would have 4 groups of which top 2 qualify, and if teams like hong kong and uae are put in groups which have india pakistan, or australia wi and etc. would that be fair on them?
They would be eliminated even before playing the games.
I think 1st round will get them used to the conditions and they will start picking momentum. I know only few teams will be able to qualify but its fair to them
posted on 14/3/14
Ireland
And then England I guess, although not passionate about them.
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Very likely to play each other unless Zimbabwe have other ideas. Won't be long before Ireland get more games against the big boys.
posted on 14/3/14
Hopefully!!
I will be cheering on the Irish in that.
Cannot believe they are making Ireland play on Monday... even though it is a morning game there won't be many sober Irish people about!
posted on 14/3/14
Not sure they know what St Patricks day is in Bangladesh.
I still have sleepless nights with what Ireland did to Pakistan in 2007 50 over world cup which also happened to be on St Patricks day
posted on 15/3/14
are people entering the cricinfo fantasy?
posted on 15/3/14
I've done mine Viru. 10 people have joined the league above.
It is called the "Whites" league but that more to do with them being Leeds fans than anything else
posted on 15/3/14
I joined because I thought it was a Whites Supremiscist League. Gutting.
posted on 15/3/14
Haven't had time.. Will try and spare half an hour later tonight, if not I won't bother.. No point joining late
posted on 15/3/14
afridi cricinfo's doesnt start till the first super 10 match. So u still have plenty of time to register there
posted on 15/3/14
All you have to do is pick 3 Bengis, 3 Afgans, 3 HK and 2 from Nepal. Takes 5 mins
posted on 15/3/14
I've just joined up..... there's about 9 members pending.... who set this league up?? get a move on mate!!
posted on 15/3/14
Bengla vs aghanis game should be a good one.... good job its on before the footy..... A Taliban, Liverpool and arsenal victories would do nicely
posted on 15/3/14
Didn't know you starting betting? How come your banking on so many teams?
posted on 15/3/14
No kash I meant that there is another fantasy cricket that you can join. Cricinfo have their own and its different to this one which is I guess made by ICC.
I think we should have one for that as well. In cricinfo it only starts from the super 10 matches. Since this guy isnt updating his league, and many of us are still pending it wont be a bad idea to have it on cricinfo.
http://games.espncricinfo.com/fantasy/homepage.aspx
This is the link, BTW
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