Cricket World Cup: Group A virtually sorted; Group B a work in progress

• Group A is the far more straightforward of the two pools. New Zealand and Australia cleared out early, with Sri Lanka and Bangladesh filling the minor qualifying spots - provided Sri Lanka beat Scotland last night and Bangladesh do not beat New Zealand tomorrow night.

• A Bangladesh win would push them to third and significantly change the anticipated quarter-final matchups. Assuming Sri Lanka beat Scotland, they would both have eight points and Sri Lanka would take third by dint of an extra round robin win.

• In group B, the West Indies are two points behind Pakistan and Ireland in the three-way race for two spots. However, they have a superior run rate to the Irish. That means if they beat the UAE in the final round robin game in New Zealand, at Napier on Sunday, they will move ahead of Ireland into fourth place - unless the Irish get up over Pakistan in Adelaide.

• If Ireland beat Pakistan, they cannot miss out on a last-eight spot.

Pakistan and the West Indies' net run rates are similar. Should Pakistan lose, and the Windies beat the UAE, Ireland would finish third and the West Indies could jump above Pakistan.

• The criteria for deciding final group positions in the event of teams being level on points is the number of wins, followed by net run rate - and the chances of two identical NRRs is highly remote - with the head-to-head result when those teams met being the final splitter.

Likely quarter-final draw
• March 18: South Africa v Sri Lanka, Sydney
• March 19: India v Bangladesh, Melbourne
• March 20: Australia v Pakistan, Adelaide
• March 21: New Zealand v West Indies or Ireland, Wellington

Source: The New Zealand Herald

source : ketchim 

Oh so the India vs Banglas is just a "likely" one eh.All the while i have been thinking it was a surity.We were putting up memes of trolling to be wearing the "dark green" jersey and thus the most brutal treatment.
Ok lets wait for official confirmation then.

This is the more likely scenario. It's my understanding that New Zealand have been guaranteed a home quarter-final.

Thats NOT fair  :-[ : the scenario was laid out way before


A1 versus B4 : QF 1 March 18 Sydney !

The whole quarter final thing is relatively complicated. I thought it was cast in stone but a few days ago realized that it was not.