Final – India v New Zealand – Sunday, March 9 – Dubai

[Moss]

It becomes one sided if it involves Australia. They surrender worse than any other team when they play the Aussies.

This game will be a close one though. If NZ win the toss and bat first, it will be a repeat of the 2019 WC semifinal. That early movement from NZ bowlers is going to trouble our openers.

Broadly true, but believe it or not NZ have defeated Australia 3 times in ICC white ball tournaments in the last decade (Aus have won 4 times). If there was ever a time NZ would prefer to play Australia over India it would be this tournament.

NZ chances are a lot better if they bat first, no question. But there's also the chase at Dharamsala in 2023, when Henry bowled almost as well as in 2019 but Rohit and Gill were equal to the task.

 

[SkyBlue]

T20 WC is definitely behind the CT

I think T20 WC is going to be the biggest ICC event in 10-15 years time. We are heading down that road.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

I think T20 WC is going to be the biggest ICC event in 10-15 years time. We are heading down that road.

They will hold it bi-yearly at that point (to maximize profits for the fat cats.)

 

[SkyBlue]

They will hold it bi-yearly at that point (to maximize profits for the fat cats.)

It's the only way cricket can become a global sport IMO. We are still a long long way away from that.

Viewership will dictate prize money and I can see T20 WC being the biggest event in cricket down the road.

Apart from the travel and the poor scheduling, the last T20 WC was pretty good with 16 teams imo.

 

[Athlai]

Cricket doesn't need to be a global sport?

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

The

It's the only way cricket can become a global sport IMO. We are still a long long way away from that.

Viewership will dictate prize money and I can see T20 WC being the biggest event in cricket down the road.

Apart from the travel and the poor scheduling, the last T20 WC was pretty good with 16 teams imo.

The India-Pakistan clash at the infamous Nassau Cricket Stadium didn’t even cause any shift in the plate tectonics that is World Cricket.

The youngsters love bang bang cricket…but understanding the nature and beauty of a forward defense shot beats any ramp in my book.

Anyways, I’m showing my true self… have to stop herr

 

[SkyBlue]

Cricket doesn't need to be a global sport?

Why not?

We won't get USA embarrassing Pakistan, Netherlands having the wood over SA in both ODI and T20's in ICC events or Afghanistan becoming a rising power in cricket if we dint expand the game

We have the ODI World cup for top quality cricket but the T20 WC needs to have more teams to globalize the game.

 

[SkyBlue]

The

The India-Pakistan clash at the infamous Nassau Cricket Stadium didn’t even cause any shift in the plate tectonics that is World Cricket.

The youngsters love bang bang cricket…but understanding the nature and beauty of a forward defense shot beats any ramp in my book.

Anyways, I’m showing my true self… have to stop herr

The game was played on a **** pitch. I love low scoring games but I reckon someone new to cricket would've probably found it hard to enjoy the grind of chasing 120 to win.

 

[Athlai]

Only football is a global sport, everything else is regional or national and thats fine. They can still be successful.

 

[LangleyburyCCPlayer]

The T20 version definitely isn’t as prestigious as the other 50 over version (probably slightly more than the CT as it is still a World Cup), but in some ways to me it feels more like a World Cup with more teams, even a 14 team World Cup will have the same old teams as have always taken part, it doesn’t get started in earnest until the latter stages

 

[LangleyburyCCPlayer]

Namibia don’t get automatic qualification for 2027 despite being co-hosts while the USA did last year, hmmmmm…

 

[SkyBlue]

Only football is a global sport, everything else is regional or national and thats fine. They can still be successful.

If that's your definition of global sport, it's fine. I'm talking more in terms of expanding the sport's reach.

The last T20 WC with 16 teams would've been considered a grand success if the games were played on better pitches and if the scheduling/travel was better organized.

 

[SkyBlue]

The T20 version definitely isn’t as prestigious as the other 50 over version (probably slightly more than the CT as it is still a World Cup), but in some ways to me it feels more like a World Cup with more teams, even a 14 team World Cup will have the same old teams as have always taken part, it doesn’t get started in earnest until the latter stages

How is it any different it to the Euro's or the FIFA World Cup then? Group stages doesn't exactly make for spectacular viewing. And we'll have 48 teams next year.

While having more teams dilutes the quality of cricket but ICC can afford to experiment having more teams in the T20 format as compared to the ODI WC.

 

[ImpatientLime]

absolutely nobody involved in the game has any interest in making it a global sport.

 

[honestbharani]

That's just a thing you say to add more ICC tournaments and more Ind-Pak games to keep the money train going.

 

[Arachnödouche2.0]

NZ finals are usually epic or one sided (small sample size mind you)

3 finals in 10 years is hardly a small sample size tbf.

 

[Arachnödouche2.0]

This match should be played somewhere neutral imo, maybe Rarotonga or Samoa

I'd tune in to watch this.

 

[Sunil1z]

Including this final

 

[LangleyburyCCPlayer]

How is it any different it to the Euro's or the FIFA World Cup then? Group stages doesn't exactly make for spectacular viewing. And we'll have 48 teams next year.

While having more teams dilutes the quality of cricket but ICC can afford to experiment having more teams in the T20 format as compared to the ODI WC.

The big group stage format is terrible, 9 frigging games to progress to the semis, or simply to suffer defeat after defeat, how many dead rubbers are there? The football World Cup doesn’t see nearly as many, and albeit it’s unique to football really, we see some great drama in the 3rd game of the group (maybe slightly less now that some 3rd place teams will go through). I don’t buy the argument about more teams diluting the competition, the gap between the lower Test teams and the top associates is negligible, you only have to see the Windies’ struggles in the last World Cup qualifier to see that, and I know T20 is more likely to produce upsets, but the USA had never even made a World Cup before and stunned Pakistan. Speaking of Pakistan, they lost to Ireland in 2007 in a 16 team tournament, a more cynical man than I might suggest that (and Bangladesh beating India) is the reason behind that format being shelved…

 

[andruid]

An aside, isn't this the third time in a row we are having our 'last ever' Champions Trophy?