*Official* Match 3 - Sri Lanka v Canada

[Howe_zat]

Yeah, maybe not horrible.

NRR could be important though. Say Australia beat everyone. Then NZ beat SRL, SRL beat PAK, and PAK beat NZ. And all the minnows lose. Then places 2 through 4 would all be decided by NRR.

True, but that's a pretty contrived situation, and only affects the QF draw and not who goes through. Even so, across 6 group matches, you would expect the anomalous NRR results to even out, leaving the team with the best NRR to be the team that's been the most convincing.

 

[Prince EWS]

I see what you mean, admittedly I thought the calculations were done treating each match's NRR equally.

It should be like that - a sum of net match run rates. It's not though.