So, now all the teams have arrived for the competition it's time for the draw.
Here we have two buckets of balls. The first contains the four seeds:
1 - Australia
2 - England
3 - Pakistan
4 - West Indies
The second contains the remaining twelve teams:
5 - Bangladesh
6 - Bermuda
7 - Canada
8 - Denmark
9 - East Africa
10 - India
11 - Ireland
12 - New Zealand
13 - Rhodesia
14 - Scotland
15 - Sri Lanka
16 - Wales
And so, with all the admin out of the way, it's time to start the draw.
The first pick will be from the seeded bucket, and it is
number three -
Pakistan.
The next three picks will be from the unseeded bucket. The first of them is
number eight -
Denmark - a straightforward draw for Pakistan in the first round.
Next up we have
number six -
Bermuda.
And facing them will be
number fourteen -
Scotland. They have been coming off second-best lately against the Irish in their annual clash, but should still be favourites against Bermuda.
Up next we have the second of our seeded teams:
number one -
Australia.
Their first-round match will be against
number seven -
Canada. This is a fascinating fixture, because the Australians recently lost against an Eastern Canada XI just a couple of months ago.
The remaining match in the top half of the draw will first see
number five -
Bangladesh.
And they'll be up against
number eleven -
Ireland. The Irish will really fancy their chances here in familiar conditions.
There are now only two seeded teams left; which will we see first? It's
number four -
West Indies.
And they will be up against
number sixteen -
Wales. A really tough first-round fixture here, as this will be a Welsh team full of county players.
So who will be vying to face almost-certainly the West Indies in the quarter-finals? How about
number ten -
India?
Assuming of course that they can get past
number fifteen -
Sri Lanka! A brutal quarter of the draw here; whichever team reaches the semis from here will really have earned it.
Now of course there's only one seeded team left:
number two -
England. The host nation.
Their first match will be against
number thirteen -
Rhodesia. A couple of upsets here could be very interesting indeed, as there is talk of the West Indies being prepared to boycott a game against Rhodesia owing to their close ties with the Apartheid regime in South Africa.
All of which means we know the last two teams in the draw:
number nine -
East Africa...
And
number twelve -
New Zealand. There really should be only one winner of this game, unless Basher Hassan has a career day for the Africans.
Thank you all for joining us for a fascinating draw.