Besides the poor show from Pakistani and Indian teams, a major reason for an early exit from the contention was the poor format of this world cup. I think, following should be the format of next world cup.
Assuming there are 12 Teams total.
Based on ICC rankings, First round should be played by seed 9 - seed 12 (new or associate teams)
They should play against each other. Take Top two and they should get into real wc or super 10
You got to see more cricket - with your favorite teams in it. Anything could be better than current setup. Ideally, I would like to have same setup as was in 1992 world cup. But since ICC wants to include associate teams in worldcup, that's why I proposed the above format.
I personally thought the format was great because you'll weed out all the bad teams in the first round and then you have 6 exciting matches against good quality teams. Who would have predicted India and Pakistan both will be out in the first round. What a disappointing end for Pakis and Indian fans for something we wait desperately for every four years :(
I don't think there is any problem with the current format either. A better team should have easily pulled it through at the first stage. It is the Pakistan and Indian teams fault that they couldn't pull it through. They haven't recieved any jootay and chappal for some time so they needed it.
well..i think it was unfair to both the teams...Ireland and bangla are not going to create more surprises..ok maybe banglu's can, but IRELAND?? they went thru by fluke!!! they shud have had 2 groups instead of 4, right now I think the major cricket watching population ( Indians + Pakistanis) have lost interest...they are watchign the contest, but the passion is missing, now noone cares who wins or loses...but yes the teams need a wakeup call...but considering the controversy with Woolmer...I doubt Pak team will get a thrashing from ppl...and the Indian team is getting all the support from the Movie stars ( another sect of demi-gods in India), so they will be fine too. and now we all wait for the next world cup, unless cricket dies the same death hockey did when India started losing in the hockey world cup.
Besides the poor show from Pakistani and Indian teams, a major reason for an early exit from the contention was the poor format of this world cup. I think, following should be the format of next world cup.
Assuming there are 12 Teams total.
Based on ICC rankings, First round should be played by seed 9 - seed 12 (new or associate teams)
They should play against each other. Take Top two and they should get into real wc or super 10
Each super 10 should play against each other.
Top 4 determines the 4 semi-finalists
And final should be of Best of Three.
What do you guys think?
I like the idea. This way Pakistan will get to play a minimum of 3 games :D
10 teams should participate in WC (top 8 ICC ranking team and 2 Qualifiers)
Each team should play every other team (44 matches)
Top 4 proceed to semi and so on ! (2 Semi + 1 Final)
ODI cricket is really a ODI cricket and on given day, any team can beat any other team. Good/deserving teams should have a way to COME BACK in the the tournament.
Naah... let the short-circuit mechanism stay... serves our team right. It's not like they only had one chance. With matches against one real team and two minnows, the ICC was counting on having the top-ranked teams at least be able to beat the minnows which don't even feature in their lists.
If Pakistan or India or any other team cannot live up to that expectation, then so be-it ! its better to exit early than to waste any more of our precious time with the inconsistent antics in the later stages of the tournament. Let the real teams like SL, SA and Australia battle it out. These teams can lose on any given day... but they fight it out and their fans aren't left with the same despair of defeat that we're left with after watching our team perform dismally in every dept.
We are just not good enough at the moment. The super eight or super ten format is also not without flaws. Technically it's possible for two or three teams to finish on equal points and one of them missing out on net RR (happened with Australia in 1992) which is equally heart-breaking.