flyingkiwi
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Had a bit of kip now awake again. I can’t believe we’re still in this but the bowling’s gonna have to tighten up again.
It's trash. What a hollow way to win, luck into tying the game, draw the super over and then default win by having the most boundaries in the game. What a crap way to decide the showpiece event of the sport. Do another super over and get an actual winner of the final
Imagine deciding game 7 of the Stanley Cup on most shots or something like that.
For such a great game to end like that is a real shame.
I’d be alright if it was wickets taken or something. Most boundaries is worse than losing a Stanley Cup on a shoot out. Which for good reason doesn’t happen.
Overall aside from that final, I thought this was a rather boring World Cup. Hopefully ICC expands the tournament to allow more teams, and have more knockout games.
This time, the top 4 was pretty much decided with a decent amount of group games left.
More group games played likely means the better teams will come out on top, but it puts less weight on each game, making for a less exciting tournament.
More group games means more India games, and thus more money, but I think settling for less cash in the short term for growing the game in the long term is a worth while investment. Say China starts doing well, makes the World Cup and starts getting interested. That’s another 1 billion + market that you can potentially tap into.
Would prefer they go back to allowing 12-16 team. Crazy to think two full members are not playing a World Cup. Having a 2007 type of tournament would put a lot more weight into the group games, allow more teams to play and allow better chance for weaker teams to advance, making the event more exciting. Basically mimicking the FIFA model.
We have the champions trophy for a truncated version of the event with only top teams anyways. Just having two more teams for the World Cup basically makes it the same event every 2 years.
Getting the chance to see teams that we usually don’t get to watch is always fun. I enjoyed watching Bermuda, Nepal, PNG, Namibia despite their lack of competitiveness in some games. Also helps those teams get some games against the big boys, which would otherwise be pretty much impossible.
How big is this victory in comparison for example to the Rugby WC-win 2003?