http://nasirkhan.wordpress.com/2006/10/18/opinion-how-much-did-the-icc-goof-up/ Just another Wordpress.com weblog Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:35:56 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://nasirkhan.wordpress.com/2006/10/18/opinion-how-much-did-the-icc-goof-up/#comment-2676 Nasir M. Khan Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:10:44 +0000 http://nasirkhan.wordpress.com/2006/10/18/opinion-how-much-did-the-icc-goof-up/#comment-2676 Sri lanka were a class above the rest..... WI(as a full ODI team) were a class above the other 2...... and as it turned out, ban was a class above Zim !...... So really, one could have predicted the outcome of this first round from the outset....... kind of makes it a little pointless.......... Sri lanka were a class above the rest….. WI(as a full ODI team) were a class above the other 2…… and as it turned out, ban was a class above Zim !…… So really, one could have predicted the outcome of this first round from the outset……. kind of makes it a little pointless……….

]]> http://nasirkhan.wordpress.com/2006/10/18/opinion-how-much-did-the-icc-goof-up/#comment-2664 Bruce Gaskell Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:27:14 +0000 http://nasirkhan.wordpress.com/2006/10/18/opinion-how-much-did-the-icc-goof-up/#comment-2664 I'm no fan of the timing, but I don't see why the qualifying round was pointless in the scheme of things in ODI cricket. It gave Bangladesh some meaningful Cricket without exposing them to a series of pastings. The results were fairly one sided, but subsequent events have shown the pitches to be very tricky. Involving Scotland or Ireland would have been interesting though i agree. I’m no fan of the timing, but I don’t see why the qualifying round was pointless in the scheme of things in ODI cricket.
It gave Bangladesh some meaningful Cricket without exposing them to a series of pastings. The results were fairly one sided, but subsequent events have shown the pitches to be very tricky. Involving Scotland or Ireland would have been interesting though i agree.

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