Super Eight

[pup11]

Clinical performance from the Aussies this and good batting-time for Huss too.

And it was nice to see Huss finishing it off with a 6.

 

[Dasgupta]

Morning pup. Looks like I didn't miss much. I knew I should have put some money on Australia. They were paying $1.01

 

[stumpski]

Paul Allott just said on Sky, "I think the ICC have to look at the group stage again to ensure that the biggest teams get through."

Yes, that's what he said.

 

[Raghav]

This might have boosted AUS runrate. Now AUS runrate is very high and cant be reached by anyother team! Well done AUS

 

[Raghav]

Paul Allott just said on Sky, "I think the ICC have to look at the group stage again to ensure that the biggest teams get through."

Yes, that's what he said.

Paul wants the bigger team to go through even they play badly. ridiculous/.....


I think BAN and IRL played better cricket than IND and PAK....

 

[stumpski]

Seems plenty of people want International cricket to be played in perpetuity by the same eight teams ...

That used to be known as a 'closed shop.'

 

[PhoenixFire]

Personally, I'd rather the competition was held between Australia, South Africa, England, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, West Indies, India and Pakistan.

 

[Dasgupta]

Personally, I'd rather the competition was held between Australia, South Africa, England, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, West Indies, India and Pakistan.

Surely Bangladesh deserve to be in that group too

 

[Dasgupta]

Paul Allott just said on Sky, "I think the ICC have to look at the group stage again to ensure that the biggest teams get through."

Yes, that's what he said.

I agree

 

[PhoenixFire]

Surely Bangladesh deserve to be in that group too

They haven't really managed to string together a decent amound of good performances. They are pretty much on the fringe though.

 

[Raghav]

If you want the cricket to played by only top 8 in the bigger competitions, then why do you name it as World Cup. Or why do play with 16 nations. If the top 8 are so good then they shud have to outplay the smaller nations. If they dont do that, then there is no good to say that they are top in cricket. You got to beat each and every team and each every challege posed to you, to win WC. Its not a cake walk...Mr. Paul

 

[pup11]

Good to see a great quickie like Joel Garner give away the MOM award to Glen.


Great sense of humour from Pidge there (regarding his batting), i hope he hangs up his boots as a part of another WC winning side this time around too.


That would be the least the Australian team could do for this great servant of Australian cricket.

 

[stumpski]

If you want the cricket to played by only top 8 in the bigger competitions, then why do you name it as World Cup. Or why do play with 16 nations. If the top 8 are so good then they shud have to outplay the smaller nations. If they dont do that, then there is no good to say that they are top in cricket. You got to beat each and every team and each every challege posed to you, to win WC. Its not a cake walk...Mr. Paul

It was the word 'ensure' that caught my attention, and I'm glad to say that Charles Colville picked up on it. What Allott seemed to be suggesting was that there should be some system in place to ensure that the top eight go through. It would be like saying to the other teams, you can play, but you mustn't win any games.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

No one are obviously good enough to beat Australia anyway. Hand them the trophy for the next thirty years and go and play Test cricket.

 

[Dasgupta]

Why not just have 2 pools of 8? They could be selected using ICC rankings,..even numbers in one pool, odd numbers in the other. Each pool could then play a round robin, top 2 teams from each pool go through the semi-finals.

 

[GGG]

I like the idea off 10 teams each playing each other once (2 games a day), semi and final (best of 3 would be nice). With the minnows fighting it out for the 2 extra places in a pre world cup series.

 

[pup11]

Paul Allott is just an idiot to really criticise the associate nations like that, why does he blame Ireland the Aussies have made every team they have faced through the WC look like associate nations so why be so hyper-critical about Ireland's performance today.



Why didn't Mr.Allott come up with such comments when Ireland made 218 against England without getting bowled out or when England limped through to a victory against Bangladesh.

 

[Pratters]

Except KP's was 104 off 122 which isn't terribly slow. He could have hit out a little earlier but if he did and got out on 90 he would have received even more critisism.

Have never been a fan of the whole 100 logic. You don't play for what people might say any way. You play for what suits your team best So that part of your reasoning is flawed from a larger perspective.

 

[Pratters]

What's with all these teams electing to field first against the minnows?..

Having said that, I'm sure that's not what's going on with Ponting. I think he just wants to get the game over and done with, which is fair enough.

It also helps with NRR I suppose if you get teams out quickly and then make the runs fast. Not that Australia needs NRR but for other teams, it can be crucial.

 

[prakesh]

Paul Allott is just an idiot to really criticise the associate nations like that, why does he blame Ireland the Aussies have made every team they have faced through the WC look like associate nations so why be so hyper-critical about Ireland's performance today.



Why didn't Mr.Allott come up with such comments when Ireland made 218 against England without getting bowled out or when England limped through to a victory against Bangladesh.

Spot the common denominator.

It's to be expected that the smaller nations will perform better against fellow minnows, so why remark on it?