2019 Cricket World Cup - Discussion & Analysis

[AB de Royse777]

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When it comes to world cup finals, India and Australia battled only once in the finals in 2003 and they smashed the Indian bowlers all around the park mainly Ricky Ponting and that was the case with Pakistan in the finals in 1999, they smashed them and they won without much fight and the 2007 world cup was the most boring tournament i have seen and Australia defeated Srilanka in the finals.

Thanks for the information. Somehow my memory tricked me. I was thinking there were more than even two final between Australia and India.

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[AB de Royse777]

Guys,
How many are you still thrilled to watch this? : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUJI4IZQZJI

Who was wrong you think?
Lance Klusener or Allan Donald?
There were more 2 balls left.
Donald could run or there were no need for this risky run for Klusener?

I can not imagine after all these years I am still asking this question. :-P

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This breaks my heart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRln22UBh0w

[syamster]

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South Africa and England are strong teams, but I would choose England over South Africa at present as the better contender here.

If I am asked to pick one in between England and South Africa then I will also pick England. Their own condition, ground and recent time they are performing well as well. South Africa has problem in their middle order and lower order batting I think.

Africa did win the champion trophy in 2017 in Germany now one made fine prediction but the actually had greater tournament, the fact is I don’t consider,,,, as winner because old age games and the cricket history is both with them, most of time they reached the final but they never win, so I think they are not well trained players.

[JSRAW]

@Raja bhai is Pakistan going to beat India in this world cup? would be great for Pakistan if they can break the record this year but only in a playoff not at the end of the tournament  

Guys,
How many are you still thrilled to watch this? : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUJI4IZQZJI

Who was wrong you think?
Lance Klusener or Allan Donald?

It was a face-palm moment from both batsmen tbh, call it Brain fade. happens during the pressure moment.

[AB de Royse777]

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Africa did win the champion trophy in 2017 in Germany now one made fine prediction but the actually had greater tournament, the fact is I don’t consider,,,, as winner because old age games and the cricket history is both with them, most of time they reached the final but they never win, so I think they are not well trained players.

Are you talking about South African cricket team?
2017 Champions trophy venue was England. I watched some of the matches live in the oval ground LOL

The winner was Pakistan by the way.

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It was a face-palm moment from both batsmen tbh, call it Brain fade. happens during the pressure moment.

One need to admit that Klusener and Donald did not talk to each others before playing the ball.

[Pffrt]

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Africa did win the champion trophy in 2017 in Germany now one made fine prediction but the actually had greater tournament, the fact is I don’t consider,,,, as winner because old age games and the cricket history is both with them, most of time they reached the final but they never win, so I think they are not well trained players.

Are you talking about South African cricket team?
2017 Champions trophy venue was England. I watched some of the matches live in the oval ground LOL

The winner was Pakistan by the way.

I was like where the hell I was in that champion trophy and trying to remember hardly. I don't know what he is talking about. And where the hell was Africa doing in Germany even?

[tanvir232]

One of the most existing cricket tournament for Cricket lover this is world cup.2019 world cup hosting by England.starts at may 30 in kennington oval London.world cup first match England vs south Africa.my favourite team Australia, hopefully Australia win the world cup.

[JSRAW]

One need to admit that Klusener and Donald did not talk to each others before playing the ball.

Did they talk with each other after getting run-out?  i guess no lol

@Raja bhai is Pakistan going to beat India in this world cup? would be great for Pakistan if they can break the record this year but only in a playoff not at the end of the tournament  

"Records are meant to be broken!"

Yeah, nothing is permanent, this record should be broken this time at any cost. Both teams playing world cup matches against each other since 1992 and it's 2019 now.

Damn, One generation missed all the fun from Pakistan's side

[Haunebu]

Alex Hales identifies ‘four main teams in the running to lift the World Cup’

Hales has identified England, Australia, India and Pakistan as “the four main teams in the running to lift the World Cup”.

https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/1113802

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Africa did win the champion trophy in 2017 in Germany

Which "Champions Trophy" are you referring to? 2017 Champions Trophy was won by Pakistan, not South Africa.

I agree with 3 of the teams that he selected, but I disagree with this choice regarding Pakistan. Pakistan are a great team when it comes to T20 tournaments currently, but they are pretty bad both in ODI and test tournaments at present which is why I doubt they will even qualify for the quarters.

Instead of Pakistan, New Zealand or South Africa seem like better options in this scenario.

[Pffrt]

New Zealand declared their squad for 2019 world cup. Tom Bundell, a new cricketer (wicket keeper) was also called in the team. Other than this, nothing is much of wonder. Ish Sodhi is a good call I think. There's some rumor that captain Kane Williamson created pressure to call Bundell and Sodhi in the team. However, I think they have a balanced team for the world cup.
Here is the list- https://sports.ndtv.com/world-cup-2019/new-zealand-name-15-man-world-cup-2019-squad-2016933

[tanvir232]

Defending champion Australia shows their ability in asia to win world cup Again ,they have passed a great time in all-rounder performance.any team can won the world cup by performing their best.England is another team to win world cup in their home.india also have the ability to win the world cup too because they have many world-class batsman like vhirat kohli,Ruhit sharam etc. Cricket is an unpredictable game         

[Sithara007]

This edition of the world cup doesn't look very exciting to me. Last time, it was 14 teams, and this time it has been reduced to 10. Out of the 10 teams, five are from the South Asian region. There is hardly any diversity. And the biggest irony is that the decision to reduce the number of participants was made after Bangladesh knocked out India and Ireland destroyed Pakistan during the 2007 CWC. Since there are no minnows, the ICC hopes that the main market (India) will remain at least till the semi-final stage. Goes against the spirit of the game. They should make a rule that India will qualify to the next stage even if they lose all the matches in the group stage.

[JSRAW]

This edition of the world cup doesn't look very exciting to me. Last time, it was 14 teams, and this time it has been reduced to 10. Out of the 10 teams, five are from the South Asian region. There is hardly any diversity. And the biggest irony is that the decision to reduce the number of participants was made after Bangladesh knocked out India and Ireland destroyed Pakistan during the 2007 CWC. Since there are no minnows, the ICC hopes that the main market (India) will remain at least till the semi-final stage. Goes against the spirit of the game. They should make a rule that India will qualify to the next stage even if they lose all the matches in the group stage.

Let me make clear that I am in Full favor of more team playing in the World Cup.

If ICCI ruling Associate members out of the World Cup tournament then there are many valid reasons, Right or Wrong we can discuss anytime. Financial is one of them and arguably comes at the top, and other reasons revolve around finance you like or not and With due respect to your opinion, there was no need of dragging India here in this discussion without offering any solution.

You are accusing that ICCI decision is favoring Indian team directly or indirectly, which is ridiculous, Indian fans or India not stopping others from watching a game by any chance. There are high chances that you read some English report in English media about 2007 world cup failure and repeating the same here. This "Blaming India" game started from there if you don't know.

How many Associate member's Full matches have you watched till date? 1-2 or  5 which I highly doubt. and I am talking about on TV not live from Stadium. If your answer is 0 then think again who is the real defaulter here before dragging India in this discussion.

Indians love to watch cricket, and we have been watching the Indian team playing when every team used to shit on us by beating us on the ground or by their behavior. Can give you at least 10 incident with details ( on the field and off the ground incidents) but that would make the post very long.

[Juggy777]

This edition of the world cup doesn't look very exciting to me. Last time, it was 14 teams, and this time it has been reduced to 10. Out of the 10 teams, five are from the South Asian region. There is hardly any diversity. And the biggest irony is that the decision to reduce the number of participants was made after Bangladesh knocked out India and Ireland destroyed Pakistan during the 2007 CWC. Since there are no minnows, the ICC hopes that the main market (India) will remain at least till the semi-final stage. Goes against the spirit of the game. They should make a rule that India will qualify to the next stage even if they lose all the matches in the group stage.

Hey with all due respect to your opinions this is the World Cup this is the biggest stage for any cricketer, and fans across the world and everyone is excited for it even those countries who’re not playing. I feel you don’t understand why ICC reduced the number of teams, I feel you should gather more knowledge on this. Also I can understand your home country is not playing, but accusing other countries will not help let’s respect all the countries.

[AB de Royse777]

This edition of the world cup doesn't look very exciting to me. Last time, it was 14 teams, and this time it has been reduced to 10. Out of the 10 teams, five are from the South Asian region. There is hardly any diversity. And the biggest irony is that the decision to reduce the number of participants was made after Bangladesh knocked out India and Ireland destroyed Pakistan during the 2007 CWC. Since there are no minnows, the ICC hopes that the main market (India) will remain at least till the semi-final stage. Goes against the spirit of the game. They should make a rule that India will qualify to the next stage even if they lose all the matches in the group stage.

Hey with all due respect to your opinions this is the World Cup this is the biggest stage for any cricketer, and fans across the world and everyone is excited for it even those countries who’re not playing. I feel you don’t understand why ICC reduced the number of teams, I feel you should gather more knowledge on this. Also I can understand your home country is not playing, but accusing other countries will not help let’s respect all the countries.

I go with Juggy777. I am not sure what made Sithara007 to say something like this. Cricket is the 2nd most playing sports in the world and loved by Billions.

I expect this world cup will be one of the best entertaining event in the history.

[eaLiTy]

I go with Juggy777. I am not sure what made Sithara007 to say something like this. Cricket is the 2nd most playing sports in the world and loved by Billions.

I expect this world cup will be one of the best entertaining event in the history.

I am not sure whether cricket is the second most playing sport in the world but it has much fan following in a few Asian countries and so is the reason there is only a limited amount of teams playing international cricket, with the huge population around those cricket watching nations in Asia it is the second most sporting event in the world.

Since there are no minnows, the ICC hopes that the main market (India) will remain at least till the semi-final stage. Goes against the spirit of the game. They should make a rule that India will qualify to the next stage even if they lose all the matches in the group stage.

I understand your opinion on the big upset by small teams, but never expect any big upset like Buster Douglas defeating Tyson in cricket, minnows will be crushed by top 5 teams and these encounters are usually uneventful where you will see big teams scoring huge runs like a practice game.

[onrise]

RCB almost their to take their first win after 4 matches. KKR still require 67 runs in 26 balls and 6 wickets remaining which is getting tough for them as the required run rate getting bigger and bigger. Let see if any miracle can happen.

[Haunebu]

RCB almost their to take their first win after 4 matches. KKR still require 67 runs in 26 balls and 6 wickets remaining which is getting tough for them as the required run rate getting bigger and bigger. Let see if any miracle can happen.

Lol. There is a separate thread for IPL discussion which is why I don't understand why you are posting IPL related news in a thread which is clearly dedicated to the 2019 World cup(Excitement rising).

Read the title before posting away buddy!

[JohnBitCo]

This edition of the world cup doesn't look very exciting to me. Last time, it was 14 teams, and this time it has been reduced to 10. Out of the 10 teams, five are from the South Asian region. There is hardly any diversity. And the biggest irony is that the decision to reduce the number of participants was made after Bangladesh knocked out India and Ireland destroyed Pakistan during the 2007 CWC. Since there are no minnows, the ICC hopes that the main market (India) will remain at least till the semi-final stage. Goes against the spirit of the game. They should make a rule that India will qualify to the next stage even if they lose all the matches in the group stage.

This is a good step taken by ICC to allow only top 10 teams to play the cricket world cup. Previously we saw about 14 teams used to play and those 4 , 5 teams were just newbie. The early matches of the world cup were sort of one-sided as we already knew those less strengthen teams will lose the matches easily.

[AB de Royse777]

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I am not sure whether cricket is the second most playing sport in the world but it has much fan following in a few Asian countries and so is the reason there is only a limited amount of teams playing international cricket, with the huge population around those cricket watching nations in Asia it is the second most sporting event in the world.

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I think you missed the articles I bought other day. Cricket is the second most playing sport is not my word but it's from the numbers. I will try to bring the links again. :-)

edit:
I could not find my post. It's somewhere buried LOL
Anyway,
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-are-the-most-popular-sports-in-the-world.html
https://www.topendsports.com/world/lists/popular-sport/fans.htm
https://the18.com/soccer-entertainment/most-popular-sports-in-the-world

So, yh you can see that it's not my word :-)