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HouHsiaoHsien

International Debutant
I think the odds are even lower. Realistically Australia needs to lose to both Afghan and Sri Lanka for the other teams to have any chance. And either Sri Lanka and Afghanistan need to win all their games from now and their net run rate isn’t good also.
Aus has already beaten SL
 

Jezroy

State Captain
There will be 14 teams next time, and the Super League has been abolished.
CWC 2027

South Africa and Zimbabwe (co-hosts) along with the top eight teams in the ICC ODI rankings will qualify directly for the competition, while the remaining four spots will be decided by the 2026 Cricket World Cup Qualifier. Although Namibia will co-host the competition for the first time in their history, they will not be guaranteed a spot because they are not a full ICC member, and as a result they will have to go through the standard qualification pathway.
 

Qlder

International Debutant
Will it take 6 wins to get into semi's, or will 5 wins be enough? If it's 5 wins then technically all 10 teams are still in it.

If it's 6 wins required then only five teams are still in it, the top 4 (SA, IND, NZ, AUS) and the winner of SL vs AFG on Monday. This basically makes that game an elimination as loser can't get 6 wins
 
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RossTaylorsBox

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
I remain to be convinced by Australia. And SA could yet lose to Pakistan. Let’s moan about dead games if and when they are dead rather than moaning about them
based on assumptions as to what will happen. Without checking the odds, I reckon there have been 6 games where the bookies’ favourites from the match have lost: NZ V Eng, Eng V Afg, SA V Ned, Afg V Pak, SL V Eng. Out of 25 matches that’s a decent amount. So I don’t know why we’d assume we know exactly what is going to happen. Certainly not enough to get angry about it before it happens ffs
You're supposed to moan about the World Cup every day but also keep watching every game anyway while moaning about how bad the game is.
 

silentstriker

The Wheel is Forever
Will it take 6 wins to get into semi's, or will 5 wins be enough? If it's 5 wins then technically all 10 teams are still in it.
Well we don’t know, and may not know for another week, which is why the talk of too many dead rubbers is immature.
 

silentstriker

The Wheel is Forever
where does dead rubber come from? weird term. australia v nz in the living rubber.
That’s an interesting question: per my superficial googling, some people think it comes from the card game “rubber bridge.” However, that card game is a relatively new invention and some sources date the phrase all the way back to the 16th century and the origin seems to be unclear.
 

centurymaker

Cricketer Of The Year
SL can still qualify. Need 3/4 wins. Same for Afg:

Winner of SL v Afg on Monday will have a chance...

NZ could lose 3/4 remaining games and find themselves in NRR battle for 4th or Aus could lose 2/4 and find themselves clinging to NRR with just 5 wins.

So dead rubbers are still a week or so away at least.
 

centurymaker

Cricketer Of The Year
For instance, if NZ loses to Aus and SA and then wins vs Pak. They'd be on 5 wins with a game to go vs SL.

if SL can win vs Afg and say they lose to India and then win vs Ban, they'd be on 4 wins with a game vs NZ left to play.

So NZ v SL game on 9th Nov could become a virtual quarter final

(especially if NZ loses by a decent margin vs Aus/SA and/or SL wins big vs Afg-Ban).
 

Uppercut

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The individual matches have been fine, it’s just unfortunate given the format that the biggest drop in quality is between the 4th and 5th best team.
 

Qlder

International Debutant
Anyone know how much NZ needs to be bowled out for so that AUS go to #3? Thinking AUS need to win by about 40 runs so get them out for 345 should do it 😀
 

Qlder

International Debutant
So now we have top 4 with 10, 10, 8 & 8, while everyone else has 4 or 2....might as well play the semi's now...

...Although it will be hilarious for Aus to thrash Eng by 200 runs in their upcoming match 😀
 

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