Road to Bangladesh World T-20, 2014

[tiger_army]

wikipedia confirms that too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_IC...20#Group_stage

Its unfair to Zimbabwe, but somehow if we failed to qualify that will be a disaster.

[kalpurush]

Originally Posted by godzilla
I don't see how that's fair for ZIM facing the top 2 associate teams while we get the bottom feeders for an easy qualification. Then again, this T20 WC format is bogus ... .

Originally Posted by tiger_army



Its unfair to Zimbabwe.

Do we know for sure how was the grouping done? My guess is ICC did it, not BCB.

We all know that ICC does not play a fair game though! But if it was done through the qualifying results in UAE, then what can we say?

[Ace of BD]

Now wikipedia says that afghanistan is in our group

[Night_wolf]

nepal will lose the 1st semi for sure

the difference between afg ireland and the rest of the associates is huge

[Tigers_eye]

UAE was doing great before the 18th over. Johnston plundered for 22 runs. Now UAE has a hard climb in their chase.

[Tigers_eye]

So Ireland gets to 147/8 in 20 overs. 10 runs more than what they should have had. We will see how UAE chases.

[Tigers_eye]

Originally Posted by Night_wolf
nepal will lose the 1st semi for sure

the difference between afg ireland and the rest of the associates is huge

Well Nepal was a surprise entry to the semis. Scotland had same points and head to head won against Nepal.

I consider Holland as a good team. They have couple of good players. Scotland can be good at their soil as well with some assistance from ECB.

[kalpurush]

Originally Posted by Ace of BD
Now wikipedia says that afghanistan is in our group

It seems Wikipedia is drinking too much now a days!

[Shehwar]

Wikipedia means nothing! U and I can edit Wikipedia. I'm pretty certain the champion goes in Zim's group and runner up in ours.

[Rabz]

Here is the answer to the golden query:

Saturday night's winner in Abu Dhabi will have what on paper is an easier match-up by taking on Zimbabwe along with two other Associates in Group B of the next qualifier to advance into the "Super 10s". The runner-up will have the unenviable task of taking on Bangladesh on home soil, and defeat in that game will almost certainly prevent them from advancing to face Australia, India, Pakistan and West Indies in the main draw. After spending three weeks competing at the qualifier in the UAE and working hard to get to Bangladesh, it would be a cruel fate to not even get the opportunity to test themselves against the rest of the Full Members.

Source : http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc-worl...ry/694659.html

[Night_wolf]

Originally Posted by Rabz
Here is the answer to the golden query:

Saturday night's winner in Abu Dhabi will have what on paper is an easier match-up by taking on Zimbabwe along with two other Associates in Group B of the next qualifier to advance into the "Super 10s". The runner-up will have the unenviable task of taking on Bangladesh on home soil, and defeat in that game will almost certainly prevent them from advancing to face Australia, India, Pakistan and West Indies in the main draw. After spending three weeks competing at the qualifier in the UAE and working hard to get to Bangladesh, it would be a cruel fate to not even get the opportunity to test themselves against the rest of the Full Members.

Source : http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc-worl...ry/694659.html

that seals the deal, if we can win the WC opener we''ll qualify for the 2nd round

[Night_wolf]

Nepal finishes 3rd!, great achievement from them!

[Tiger Manc]

Fantastic achievement from Nepal to finish 3rd! This is probably their greatest achievement. Hopefully they can take the confidence from their performance into the 2015 World Cup qualifiers to qualify for 50 over event too.

[koushik]

Final
IRELAND 211/4(18)
VS
AFG

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[koushik]

225/7(20)

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[Roni_uk]

225..... At this rate, Ireland might be in the final in the final WC.

[koushik]

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[Equinox]

Looks like we're getting Afghanistan.

[Ace of BD]

We are also getting Nepal and HonKong....have figured out the seeding method...2,3,6 in our group. 1,4,5 in zim's group

[Ace of BD]

Yea Baybey, knew it before.....and the answer to whether we are better than afghanistan will finally be revealed in the first game

[godzilla]

^ Didn't Bangladesh beat them in the Asia cup games? Afgan played with their full squad while we had the likes of S. Hossain in our team ... speaks volume.

[Night_wolf]

Originally Posted by godzilla
^ Didn't Bangladesh beat them in the Asia cup games? Afgan played with their full squad while we had the likes of S. Hossain in our team ... speaks volume.

afg wasn't in asia cup, we beat them in trinidad, but that wasn't a international game

[MohammedC]

Afg was in Asian Games. Shabbir Roman heroic saved us then.

[kalpurush]

Originally Posted by MohammedC
Afg was in Asian Games. Shabbir Roman heroic saved us then.

The Afghans couldn't even beat our "C" team...

[godzilla]

Originally Posted by Night_wolf
afg wasn't in asia cup, we beat them in trinidad, but that wasn't a international game

Correction *Asian games*

And yes I saw the results of that match aswell, a real butt whooping we gave them.