ICC World T20 Bangladesh 2014

[asprin]

There are no quarter finals?

Edit: Just checked. Wow! It's direct semis.

 

[Lebanna]

I don't think New Zealand will be as vulnerable as South Africa were against the Netherlands and if they win it will make the next two matches in that group knockouts! And fingers crossed for today's game

You are almost right

If New Zealand win then it is definitely a Knock out for England since if they win they can't qualify and it become SA and then the winner of the NZ v SL match.

If England win however then it becomes a touch more interesting as there will be 4 teams on 4 points. Only problem for SA is that they will have no more games meaning their chances of going through are slim but not none.

If Eng and NZ win tomorrow then for SA to go through Eng have to lose to Netherlands and SA need to have a higher NRR than Eng and the team which loses between NZ & SL.

The problem is that both NZ and SL have a higher NRR than SA at the moment which means that the most likely scenario for them to go through without beating England is to lose the Eng match closely (by like 1 run or 1 ball) and then have Netherlands beat England and the SL to thump NZ.

Its not impossible, just improbable.

On the other hand if the Dutch beat NZ tomorrow well then the group is thrown wide open as there is a possibility of all 5 teams ending on 4 points (if netherlands also beat Eng, Eng beat SA and NZ beat SL).

Here are all the possibilities left in this group:

The bolded bits first are Saturday's results.

NZ & SA win:
Eng & Netherlands are out
SA are through and are joined by winner of NZ v SL

NZ & Eng win:
Netherlands are out.
Winner of NZ v SL goes through.
If Eng beat Netherlands they go through too.
If they lose then the highest NRR between SA, Eng & the loser of NZ v SL goes through

Netherlands & SA win:
SA are through.
If SL beat NZ they are through.
If SL lose to NZ then the highest NRR between SL, NZ and the winner of Eng v Netherlands goes through

Netherlands & Eng win:
If both Eng and SL lose then its a 5 way tie and the 2 highest NRR goes through
If Eng win and SL lose:

Eng are through
Highest NRR between NZ, SL and SA goes through.​

If SL win and Eng lose:

SL are through
Highest NRR between Eng, SA and Netherlands goes through​

IF both SL and Eng win:

Eng and SL go through​

I think that pretty much covers all the possibilites assuming that there is a result in every match. If any match is rained off then through this out the window

 

[Parmesh killer]

I think India 'll win. The only team I'm afraid of is Proteas.

 

[SWITCHHIT]

Don't be afraid they are chokers

 

[SWITCHHIT]

Great start for windies

 

[vaibhavtewatia]

Seems there will be a lot of pressure on young and inexperienced Muirhead when he come out to bowl and as it is Windies are already going over 10. Australia might miss the services of Hogg today.

 

[SWITCHHIT]

go....going......goes windies are gayle is on fire

 

[Dipak]

Seems there will be a lot of pressure on young and inexperienced Muirhead when he come out to bowl and as it is Windies are already going over 10. Australia might miss the services of Hogg today.

Muirhead got Gayle out instead!

 

[SWITCHHIT]

Muirhead got Gayle out instead!

Yeah he is a talented bowler

 

[vaibhavtewatia]

Nicely controlled deliveries in his first couple of overs. Too bad for Windies. Surely the plan was to take on the spinners in middle overs.

Australia shouldn't lose from here!

 

[Gaurav_7]

I hope they do. Haven't got anything to do with it but, I have 100k vcash on WI.

 

[vaibhavtewatia]

Awful penultimate over from Starc. Couldn't get one yorker correct!

Ohh wth

Lost 50k yesterday and an equal amount today!

 

[Aalay]

Sammmy is myyyyyy mannnnnnnnnn

 

[War]

Well windies just reaffirmed their T20 title hopes with that win, wasn't convinced about them with certain players form, but that was brilliant.

AUS were my favourites coming in, but in a way their historical weakness versus spin has been exposed. They made good scores, but were a bit too aggressive versus the spin. Maxwell's shot to get out today for eg was a bit unnecessary with the amount of runs already scored in the over.

AUS very good quicks also didn't bowl well in crunch periods, especially in the death overs - let both PAK & WI score too many.

 

[vaibhavtewatia]

If we'll always bowl first then how are we supposed to boost our NRR?