WC Format - Knockout Rounds

[sharaabee]

Re: WC Format - Knockout Rounds

@GoldenAsif

Your suggestion is not a bad one although I disagree with BO3 at every KO stage. The Final perhaps should be a best of three affair

The only problem is the world cup w’d be just too long. You cannot have 6 minnows (incl. Bang) partcipating as well as BO3

Ideally the top 8 countries should play each other in a round robin competition (cf 1992 WC minus the stupid rain rule!!) but then the cricket world cup will lose some of it’s global appeal!

i.e. 7 games (for each team) + SF + Final (BO3)

What if in a BO3 Final, Team A beats Team B by < 10 runs or 1 wicket (hardly a convincing win) in the first game. The second game then becomes effectively a KO Final! And what if the second game is also a nail-biter?

Let’s just accept that the best team does not always win the cricket world cup (cf. any major sport). The team that plays better and/or gets lucky (with 1 or 2 umpiring decisions) on the day wins. Let’s not completely discount the latter factor

1. BO3 Finals only - Yes. this would be better than what we have right now. But we would still have the QFs and SFs where it’s just about that one day. I completely agree with you that we will NEVER eradicate luck and it will always be a factor… who played better on that day.. how umpiring decisions went.. DL method.. rain timings etc etc.. yes.. luck will always be a part of it.. but.. the purpose/goal should be to minimize it as much as possible.. automatically increasing the credibility of the win.. winning a BO3 is more credible than winning 1 game.. even if luck can be a part of all those 3 games.. its all relative.

2. It will make the tournament longer - I briefly went over how we could do this in my original post. We could reduce the days between games, reduce the warm up games, or days between warm up games, or reduce the number of teams. Each will have its positives and negatives. Personally if the tournament gets stretched by 10 days (more days required for BO3s - days reduced because of any of the above mentioned changes)… I will take it.. it’s once in 4 years.. and the increase in credibility of the win + the added excitement of the BO3s is worth it for me.

Again - does anyone here follow NBA or NHL? If yes then you would agree that the “best ofs” adds another layer of excitement and fun.. besides just making it more fair and adding credibility.