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1992 WC: Pakistan upsets New Zealand, and everyone tunes into the Aus vs. WI match. It so turned out that Australia won, edging Pakistan into the semis. A little bit of Inzy magic and a couple of Wasim in-cutters later, Imran was showing off an impressive piece of crystal.1999 WC: The Australians bring back some Gavaskar nostalgia in their pool match against WI. It took a while to realize they were trying to take WI instead of NZ with them into the next round to maximize their carry-over points.
2003 WC: SA do it again! Rain rules haven’t ever been their thing. This time round Messieurs Duckworth and Lewis do them in.
From run rate calculations to speculating upon plausible points table scenarios, computations have always been an integral (no pun intended) feature of cricket. Likewise, this world cup offers full value to the number-crunching connoisseur. With the Super 8 being a virtual round-robin league, an array of permutations are possible. Much has been said about teams fancied to lift the cup. The simple fact of the mater is that the most relevant question is who makes it to the semis. Thereon, it is a small matter of a pair of good games and you are crowned world champions !
1992 WC: Pakistan upsets New Zealand, and everyone tunes into the Aus vs. WI match. It so turned out that Australia won, edging Pakistan into the semis. A little bit of Inzy magic and a couple of Wasim in-cutters later, Imran was showing off an impressive piece of crystal.
1999 WC: The Australians bring back some Gavaskar nostalgia in their pool match against WI. It took a while to realize they were trying to take WI instead of NZ with them into the next round to maximize their carry-over points.
2003 WC: SA do it again! Rain rules haven’t ever been their thing. This time round Messieurs Duckworth and Lewis do them in.
From run rate calculations to speculating upon plausible points table scenarios, computations have always been an integral (no pun intended) feature of cricket. Likewise, this world cup offers full value to the number-crunching connoisseur. With the Super 8 being a virtual round-robin league, an array of permutations are possible. Much has been said about teams fancied to lift the cup. The simple fact of the mater is that the most relevant question is who makes it to the semis. Thereon, it is a small matter of a pair of good games and you are crowned world champions!
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