2023 World Cup Schedule release

[Kriterion_BD]

Its finally out!

[pillowprocter]

Is Qualifier 1 the winner of the final, or the topper of the Super Sixes?

[zimfan1]

Lets qualify first, forget this thread.

[sam_ahm]

Is Qualifier 1 the winner of the final, or the topper of the Super Sixes?

If Zimbabwe Qualify, they will be Qualifier 2 , even if they win the Qualifiers. Unless Zimbabwe and someone other than Sri Lanka Qualify, in which case Zimbabwe will be Qualifier 1.

Basically what I mean is, they go by original seedings. Zimbabwe were seeded 4th for this tournament. Ireland, seeded 3rd are eliminated...

[Bulawayo Boy]

This may have already been discussed, but does anyone else find it ridiculous that only 10 teams are competing at CWC23? Hardly even seems like a world cup at all. It's like cricket is going backwards. I always enjoyed those smaller teams like Kenya and the Netherlands get on over on the big guns.

[jw2]

This may have already been discussed, but does anyone else find it ridiculous that only 10 teams are competing at CWC23? Hardly even seems like a world cup at all. It's like cricket is going backwards. I always enjoyed those smaller teams like Kenya and the Netherlands get on over on the big guns.

I certainly agree, yes.

[secretzimbo]

This may have already been discussed, but does anyone else find it ridiculous that only 10 teams are competing at CWC23? Hardly even seems like a world cup at all. It's like cricket is going backwards. I always enjoyed those smaller teams like Kenya and the Netherlands get on over on the big guns.

Yes certainly been discussed plenty over the years here - I think everybody on the forum agrees with you. Thankfully the 2027 edition will be 14 teams again. Progress, albeit small.

Also even forgetting the number of teams for a moment, the current format of a 10-team round robin is dreadful and long and very boring. 2019 was an awful world cup with a huge amount of dead rubbers.

It's just all designed to maximise Indian TV revenue, that's all. That's all anyone making decisions cares about.

[jaybro]

In many ways I believe the 2007 format was the best as it meant each game was more important or carried more weight. If you’ve only got 3 group games you can’t really afford to drop more than one game.

As SZ said, in the 10-team format there are so many dead rubber games. Whilst the 14-team (2-group) format can also result in some dead rubbers, there are far less such matches.

I guess the one fallback of the 16-team (4-group) format is that if you fail to progress out of the group stage you only get 3 games. But there’s always the option of having a plate final as well which they do in the U19s WC.

[Crastle_cog]

In many ways I believe the 2007 format was the best as it meant each game was more important or carried more weight. If you’ve only got 3 group games you can’t really afford to drop more than one game.

As SZ said, in the 10-team format there are so many dead rubber games. Whilst the 14-team (2-group) format can also result in some dead rubbers, there are far less such matches.

I guess the one fallback of the 16-team (4-group) format is that if you fail to progress out of the group stage you only get 3 games. But there’s always the option of having a plate final as well which they do in the U19s WC.

That amount of competitiveness surely didn't please the BCCI as they got knocked out in the group stage

[jaybro]

That amount of competitiveness surely didn't please the BCCI as they got knocked out in the group stage

And that's why we never saw it again