World Cup 2007 If groups drawn on 23 Feb 05

[Shish Ahmed]

Icc have announced more or less who will be in what groups barring a few complications. More on BBC Sport.


Group 1

Australia
South Africa
Icc trophy Qualifier
Icc trophy Qualifier

Group 2

New Zealand
India
Bangladesh
Icc trophy Qualifier

Group 3

Sri Lanka
England
Kenya
Icc trophy Qualifier

Group 4

Pakistan
West Indies
Zimbabwe
Icc trophy Qualifier

[rafiq]

Considering that every group would be tough for us, that actually is not so bad for BD. Zimbabwe's group might be easier to get out of, but the WI are playing at home. Any idea when they will announce locations? Seems a bit early for groupings....

[AsifTheManRahman]

two icc trophy qualifiers with australia and south africa? haha...poor fellows...

should be a walkover for the south africans - this isn't fair

[mahbubH]

Hope this time we can beat the ICC qualifier ...

[cricman]

we got the hardest group

[babubangla]

If the drawing was up to me, i would have selected the following grouping for Bangladesh:

Bangladesh
Zimbabwe (if rebel players come back, then it's Kenya)
Icc trophy Qualifier
Icc trophy Qualifier

[babubangla]

Group 3
Sri Lanka
England
Kenya
Icc trophy Qualifier

That's a poor group!!!

[Shish Ahmed]

May be some sort of advantage for us as we have played India and New Zealand already in an ODI Series.

Two years to go and we should be building towards this tournament by playing some games out in the West Indies instead of India.

[fwullah]

May be some sort of advantage for us as we have played India and New Zealand already in an ODI Series

I was thinking the same thing before the world cup 2003, and now look what happened afterwards.

[fwullah]

If the drawing was up to me, i would have selected the following grouping for Bangladesh: BD, ZIM (if rebels come back, then its Kenya), ICC Qualifier, ICC Qualifier

If things were like this, then we would definitely be disappointed as we are not yet capable of beating 3 games out of 3 even against ICC Associate nations (not counting UAE or other ACC teams) - and that, in a highly prestigious World Cup tournament - Our players will be nervous like hell.

With teams like India and New Zealand or Sri Lanka in our team, at least our players will have some time to settle their nerves. Ofcourse, I wouldn't want the game aginst ICC Qualifier either in the first match or the last match - because that is the game where we always do either pretty bad or pretty good - I wouldn't want to get a chance on that.

Edited on, February 23, 2005, 5:22 PM GMT, by fwullah.
Reason: additions

[fwullah]

Australia will be based in St Kitts and Nevis, India's group will be hosted by Trinidad and Tobago, England will play its group games in St Lucia while West Indies will begin its campaign in Jamaica.

Source: ICC

[little_master]

Let's beat india again and go forward for the best 8 ie quarter final

[mdnkumar9]

hello guys this is my first time logging in so if anyone can view my msg than plz reply.

[little_master]

We have another 2 years guys.
So lets make some Aftabs and Rafiques like this:
Aftab 1
Rafiq 1
Aftab 2
Rafiq 2
Aftab 3
Rafiq 3
Khaled Mashud
4 bowers.

We can easily make some 400 runs per game.

[fwullah]

We will play 1 of the following teams in the world cup:

1. Namibia
2. Uganda
3. Canada
4. USA
5. Bermuda
6. UAE
7. Oman
8. Denmark
9. Holland
10. Ireland
11. Scotland
12. (Division 2 Qualifier)

[Ahmed_B]

It seems we missed out our 'Old-Rivals'... the Pak+WI's group4 !!

If we had been in that group instead of Zimbabwe.. we would hav had some extra moral boost while the matches.lol!

[akabir77]

Allah ICC Q jeno canada hoy......

And hey if we beat india again we will be in 2nd round then

[akabir77]

hard to easy
2,4, 3 and 1 r almost same easy no wonder lottery was done in london with white people pressence...

[Trueblue]

WHAT?

[AsifTheManRahman]

Originally posted by little_master
We have another 2 years guys.
So lets make some Aftabs and Rafiques like this:
Aftab 1
Rafiq 1
Aftab 2
Rafiq 2
Aftab 3
Rafiq 3
Khaled Mashud
4 bowers.

We can easily make some 400 runs per game.

yeah the four bowlers all being khaled mahmuds

[shujan]

WORLD CUP GROUPS IF THEY WERE DRAWN ON 23 FEB:

GROUP 1:
Australia (1)
South Africa (5)
ICC Trophy qualifier (1)
ICC Trophy qualifier (5)

GROUP 2:
New Zealand (2)
India (8)
Bangladesh (11)
ICC Trophy qualifier (4)

GROUP 3:
Sri Lanka (3)
England (7)
Kenya (10)
ICC Trophy qualifier (3)

GROUP 4:
Pakistan (4)
West Indies (6)
Zimbabwe (9)
ICC Trophy qualifier (2)

BBC

If New Zealand get white washed by Australia in current ODI series Then Sri lanka will be number 2. Sri Lanka will replace NewZealand in our group in that case.

Edited on, February 23, 2005, 10:52 PM GMT, by shujan.

[shujan]

Who do you like to face in our group in WC 2007. Is it Sri Lanka or New Zealand.

[fwullah]

I would rather face both Sri Lanka and New Zealand instead of India, because India already have been beaten by us - be it due to their poor selection policy; India will be very serious facing us in a world cup match, but New Zealand and Sri Lanka will not; since we have not yet beaten them once.

[cricman]

we had some success against NZ but we r going to play SL in sep and next feb

so id take SL

Edited on, February 24, 2005, 5:32 AM GMT, by cricman.
Reason: typo

[Shish Ahmed]

I would rather play Sri Lanka than New Zealand. New Zealand are a more disciplined side, on their day Sri Lanka can be a very good One day team but they can also have eratic days which is quite common amongst the asian country's.