dan08 wrote:What a coincidence India and Pakistan are in the same group!
7th ICC tournament running it's happened. Shame that no major journalist ever writes on how all these tournament draws are rigged.
yep it is rigged, the proof is the 2011 world cup and 2015 world cup considering the criteria to make the groups were changed.
I made a post day before the launch and got it hopelessly wrong.
Although to be fair this time it actually hasn't been rigged, made a post around September after the cut off date, where I made a post about the possible groups for the T20 since ICC said these rankings would be used for the tournament in a press release.
And India, Pakistan, Australia and NZ were all in one group assuming all odds or evens were in the same group.
Although I have to admit they do change the criteria to suit certain fixtures.
TBH I don't mind the overload of India vs Pakistan since they hardly play each otherwise.
But England vs NZ, Sri lanka is getting boring now these 3 teams are usually group together in the past 6-7 events, for the past 4-5 ICC events the whole groups look so similar literally only one or two teams change.
From the last T20 world cup only West indies and NZ have changed places, 2013 Champions trophy and 2015 worlds cup were the same groups.