World Cup 2015

[Kiwi Eagle]

Launched today, Open on Feb 14th with New Zealand v Sri Lanka being played on my home ground here in Christchurch and Australia playing England at the MCG later that night

14 teams, 2 pools of 7 playing each other once before the top 4 move onto quarter finals

Sydney, Wellington, Adelaide and Melbourne to host quarter finals, with Auckland and Sydney will host semi finals with Melbourne taking the final

Pools

Full list of fixtures

http://www.icc-cricket.com/cricket-world-cup/fixtures

Venues

Venue cities: Adelaide, Auckland, Brisbane, Canberra, Christchurch, Dunedin, Napier, Nelson, Hamilton, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney, Wellington

 

[cherry_poppins]

Australia to miss the finals for the first time this century

 

[Fluffy]

We are still top 4 material

 

[Kiwi Eagle]

Talking with someone from NZ Cricket last night and they aren't hopeful at all of the Christchurch games going ahead, environment court to rule on it soon

 

[Fro]

Nelson??

do they have a big enough Ground Kiwi?

Beautiful town, but I'd have thought a bit small.

 

[Kiwi Eagle]

Is a place called Saxton Oval, it would hold more than 5000 I'd say although they could bring in temporary seating or something I guess.

Hasnt hosted internationals yet but does a lot of first class

 

[Clint]

How are the pools decided Kiwi? I assume it is based on seedings.
Pool A certainly appears a bit tougher than pool B imo.

 

[Kiwi Eagle]

The pools we based on the ICC Rankings at the end of last year from memory, that is what the numbers beside the teams indicate

Just reading about Dhawan's knock for India A last night, 248 from 150, was out in the 45th over so a 300 could have been on the cards, amazing how the game has changed !! 250 team score used to be a winning total lol. India made 433 and SA A made 394 in reply