Cricket World Cup - 2003, Please Read.

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**TOURNAMENT FORMAT **

The tournament will run for 44 days from the Opening Ceremony in Cape Town on Saturday, February 8, to the ICC Cricket World Cup 2003 Final in Johannesburg on Sunday, March 23. There will be a total of 54 cricket matches - a record for the ICC Cricket World Cup.
All games will be day games, except in Cape Town and Durban where all games (five at each venue) will be day-night games, the only two centres where day-night games are scheduled.
The 14 teams (see Pools) will play each other in the preliminary or pool section on a round robin basis. There will be 42 matches of these matches played over a period of 24 days.
The top three teams from each pool will proceed to the next stage of the tournament, known as the Super Six, carrying with them the points scored in matches against the other qualifying teams in their pool. The Super Six will be played over a period of nine days during which there will be two days on which no matches will be played and two days on which there will be two matches per day. In the latter case, one match will be a day game and the other a day-night game.
The Super Six will determine the four teams that will contest the semifinals - a day game in Port Elizabeth on Tuesday, March 18, and a day-night game in Durban on Thursday, March 20. In the semifinals, Team 1 plays Team 4 and Team 2 plays Team 3.
Games in South Africa will be staged in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Centurion, Bloemfontein, Paarl, Potchefstroom, East London, Benoni, Kimberley and Pietermaritzburg. Games in Zimbabwe will be staged at Harare and Bulawayo, three games each. The two games in Kenya will be staged at Nairobi.

The link to the official site is :

http://www.cricketworldcup.com/home.html

**THE POOLS **

A record number of 14 teams will take part in two pools of seven teams each.

GROUP A

Australia
Pakistan
India
England
Zimbabwe
Netherlands
Namibia

GROUP B

South Africa
Sri Lanka
New Zealand
West Indies
Bangladesh
Kenya
Canada

Details and dates of fixtures:

http://www.cricketworldcup.com/home_how.work.html

During the football world cup we ran 8 threads for the preliminary rounds, i.e. one thread for each pool. After that threads were initiated for the last 16 and each round thereafter till the finals.

For the cricket world cup again I suggest that we run two threads for the preliminary rounds, one for pool A and one for pool B, followed by one thread for the super six stage and then two for the semis and one for the final. However, I also suggest that we have a seperate thread for every match involving Pakistan.

Let’s have your comments in the next few days in order to formulate a final format for the threads.

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You can look at the final squads of the participating nations here:

http://www.gupistan.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=85033

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Re: Cricket World Cup - 2003, Please Read.

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*Originally posted by ehsan: *

For the cricket world cup again I suggest that we run two threads for the preliminary rounds, one for pool A and one for pool B, followed by one thread for the super six stage and then two for the semis and one for the final. However, I also suggest that we have a seperate thread for every match involving Pakistan.

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coudnt agree more. That will make some 11-12 threads in total.

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There should be on thread for Each of India's game also.So effectively we will have 11 more threads. ;)

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[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by andha_qanoon: *
There should be on thread for Each of India's game also.So effectively we will have 11 more threads. ;)
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Don't worry you will get one dedicated thread on 1 March when the two teams clash. :)

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Format sounds fine :k:

AQ you’re lucky we’re even giving the Indians coverage in the group threads, if we were big cry babies like your lot we’d ban coverage of Indian matches altogether :wink:

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For the cricket world cup again I suggest that we run two threads for the preliminary rounds, one for pool A and one for pool B, followed by one thread for the super six stage and then two for the semis and one for the final. However, I also suggest that we have a seperate thread for every match involving Pakistan

Great idea. :k:

I may be responding from South Africa. :smiley:

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Honey…You cant live without discussing Indians.It will be like Fish without Water.
India-hating is too important for your existance.
So take it easy.

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So True AQ Bhai.

Xtreme - I am looking forward to the live telecast of World Cup on Khel Khilari from South Africa. Hope it would be different this time. So far your live telecast means copy/pasting the scores from Cricinfo.

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[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by andha_qanoon: *

Honey...You cant live without discussing Indians.It will be like Fish without Water.
India-hating is too important for your existance.
So take it easy.
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The same is true for you as well when it comes to Pakistan hating.

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doez n-e 1 knowz when iz last day of subscribe WC matchez on dish network

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[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by Jaan Lewaa: *
doez n-e 1 knowz when iz last day of subscribe WC matchez on dish network
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Before the last ball of final :) duh !

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nice plan, :k:

but why dont we create a thread for each day :smiley:

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:smack:how many dayz b4 WC start

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Read above.

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where:confused:

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Very first post states the tournament starts on 8 feb and a link later on within the posts gives you details of the matches with dates. :slight_smile:

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[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by ehsan: *

Very first post states the tournament starts on 8 feb and a link later on within the posts gives you details of the matches with dates. :)
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but where it sayz n-e thing about dish network

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Great idea! :k:

Here is another suggestion, instead of posting in khail khilari forum, why not all guppies chat in gupshup during the progress of the matches.

And anyone wants to post comments after the match should do it in the khail khilari forum.

Just a suggestion, don’t if it will work.

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Welcome Back Marhoom Umair Bhai.

Not a good idea though.