2023 World Cup Schedule release
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2023 7:49 am
Its finally out!
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Re: 2023 World Cup Schedule release
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2023 8:41 am
Is Qualifier 1 the winner of the final, or the topper of the Super Sixes?
Re: 2023 World Cup Schedule release
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2023 10:00 am
Lets qualify first, forget this thread.
Re: 2023 World Cup Schedule release
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2023 1:56 pm
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.pillowprocter wrote: ↑Tue Jun 27, 2023 8:41 amIs Qualifier 1 the winner of the final, or the topper of the Super Sixes?
Basically what I mean is, they go by original seedings. Zimbabwe were seeded 4th for this tournament. Ireland, seeded 3rd are eliminated...
Re: 2023 World Cup Schedule release
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2023 6:45 pm
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.
Re: 2023 World Cup Schedule release
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2023 9:11 pm
I certainly agree, yes.Bulawayo Boy wrote: ↑Tue Jun 27, 2023 6:45 pmThis 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.
Re: 2023 World Cup Schedule release
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2023 9:54 pm
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.Bulawayo Boy wrote: ↑Tue Jun 27, 2023 6:45 pmThis 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.
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.
Re: 2023 World Cup Schedule release
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2023 11:19 pm
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.
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.
Re: 2023 World Cup Schedule release
Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2023 5:22 am
That amount of competitiveness surely didn't please the BCCI as they got knocked out in the group stagejaybro wrote: ↑Tue Jun 27, 2023 11:19 pmIn 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.
Re: 2023 World Cup Schedule release
Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2023 7:03 am
And that's why we never saw it againCrastle_cog wrote: ↑Wed Jun 28, 2023 5:22 am
That amount of competitiveness surely didn't please the BCCI as they got knocked out in the group stage