dan08 wrote:Shame that Bangladesh, Ireland and Netherlands are all in the same group. Bangladesh will probably go through.
bhaveshgor wrote:hopefully no one complains about the format here.
The Associates guys that complain about the bloody format comes on my nerves considering they bloody moan about everything.
Either the comp is too long, either the comps doesn't have many teams or the the comps doesn't allow the big team playing the associates.
This format not that great but it is probably the best possible format generated and still make the T20 format look simple.
Yes there is essentially a qualifier before the main comp but looks at the positives better tv Coverage, people actually watching the games and the spotlight is on the associates without any full member taking precedence.
Also this year Star/ICC TV won't be televising the warm up games.
TBH the group even look great on Paper.
Ban, Ireland, Netherland and then Zim, Afg and Scotland all with a chance of going through.
People are R**tards if they prefer the format to change considering any change will see associates losing out.
4 groups of 4 doesn't actually work either because the number of marquee games comes down.
unless they do an under 19 world cup format and have placement games which should see more marquee games but the downside is that the placement games are low intensity.
In terms of time, Business and quality of games the current formats is the best, Even the associates get a good deal out of it, 3 guaranteed games and if they progress 4 more games.
Saying that the ironic part is that ICC probably scraped the best icc world cup format.
2 groups of 7 will actually work now since the associates can match the lower full member teams including Pak/WI and the group stage isn't an one sided contest and they could even make the group stage tighter by making the top team qualify for the semis and 2nd and 3rd team playing games to determine the other 2 teams.
bhaveshgor wrote:Mark Chapman, Jamie Atkinson.
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