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The Points Table/Standings

Zinzan

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Anyone run through the permutations yet of points needed to make the semis? I'm guessing 7 wins and 2 losses will be a lock, and possibly 6 wins and 3 losses with a superior NRR.
 

Molehill

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Anyone run through the permutations yet of points needed to make the semis? I'm guessing 7 wins and 2 losses will be a lock, and possibly 6 wins and 3 losses with a superior NRR.

This is the table from 2019. 6 wins it seems should be a lock too, although may depend on the number of No Results.
 

loterry1994

International Debutant

This is the table from 2019. 6 wins it seems should be a lock too, although may depend on the number of No Results.
I think most teams had a game rained out at the 2019 World Cup.
 

ashley bach

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6-3 should definitely get you through most given days.
5-4 will depend on NRR, can easily see 2-3 teams finishing up with this win/loss ratio
 

centurymaker

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6 wins will pretty much guarantee a top 4 finish.

Even 5 wins could be enough to finish 4th, if you end up with a high NRR.
 

Molehill

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Love this round robin format, everyone plays everyone so who can possibly complain about anything unfair.
It becomes unfair if someone's game with Netherlands is rained off which then affects qualification to the Top 4. Or if you get a point against India when defeat would've meant non-qualification (NZ 2019).
 

ashley bach

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It becomes unfair if someone's game with Netherlands is rained off which then affects qualification to the Top 4. Or if you get a point against India when defeat would've meant non-qualification (NZ 2019).
Yeah true this but there will never be a format that covers everything the gods throw at us.
 

centurymaker

Cricketer Of The Year
It becomes unfair if someone's game with Netherlands is rained off which then affects qualification to the Top 4. Or if you get a point against India when defeat would've meant non-qualification (NZ 2019).
There will hardly be rained off matches in this world cup, given the venues chosen.

In total, 1-2 games max may get rained off by chance.

1 no-result in a 9 match round robin has a smaller bearing on qualification than 1 no-result in a 5-6 team group round robin. So better teams shouldn't need to worry, they will finish with 6+ wins regardless.
 

centurymaker

Cricketer Of The Year
Didn't we lose half the warm up matches?

There's some rain forecast for England's game tomorrow.
Warmup matches were held at fringe locations where monsoon hadn't left yet (far south/far east). The weather there bears no resemblance to weather at world cup venues given the dates the matches are being played at wc locations.

Should be fine tomorrow too

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Dharamsala is perhaps the only location that could have a bit of rain given it's high in the mountains. But it only has 3 more matches after tomorrow and mostly weather there should be fine too.

Overall, I would be shocked if there are more than 1 or 2 no-results in the entire world cup.
 

Ashes81

State Vice-Captain
I'm not a massive fan of the format - let's be honest it's all about money. The more matches, the higher the TV rights.

These early matches don't have any jeopardy on them. I'm an England fan, the defeat against NZ, whilst disappointing, doesn't feel in any way terminal but it should do.

I noticed after the Australia - India game, a few of the Aussie players were laughing away with some Indian players. I'm not knocking the Aussie players here, but they know a defeat to India isn't that damaging. In WC cricket, every defeat should really matter.

The tournament won't really come alive until the last few rounds of group games, when some defeats will really hurt teams.

I'd have 2 groups of 6 - the 10 teams in this WC plus say the W Indies and Ireland.

Any defeat then really hits home
but of course there would be considerably fewer matches and less TV rights money in the coffers.

And to the powers that be - that's all that really matters.
 

Ashes81

State Vice-Captain
2 groups of 6 with top 2 in each making it to the semis would be so fiercely competitive.
It would be something like this:
Group A
India
Australia
Pakistan
Bangladesh
Netherlands
W Indies

Group B
England
NZ
S Africa
Sri Lanka
Afghanistan
Ireland

Any defeats would be a significant blow to qualifying.
 

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