Seeing the vast spectrum of discussions in this forum, I thought it’s best to get an understanding of the age ranges of the forum members here. You don’t need to specify your age. Just an age range would do.
Try to be honest as this will be a fair assessment of our age demography in the forum.
West Indies
Played - 24, Points - 88
Remaining matches - 0
West Indies are the only side to complete their 24 fixtures of the Super League. For West Indies to make it through to the World Cup directly with 88 points, none of Ireland, Sri Lanka and South Africa should win more than two of their remaining matches. West Indies could see themselves tie on 88 points with Ireland (if they win two of their remaining three), but they will be ranked higher based on the number of wins
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Ireland
Played - 21, Points - 68
Remaining matches - 3 vs Bangladesh (H)
Ireland would need to win their remaining three matches to have any chance of direct qualification for the World Cup. That, however, won't be enough if either Sri Lanka or South Africa win all their remaining matches. Ireland's chances will improve only if both Sri Lanka and South Africa don't win more than three games from hereon.
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Sri Lanka
Played - 20, Points - 67
Remaining matches - 3 vs New Zealand (A)
Sri Lanka need to win at least three of their remaining matches to have a chance of direct qualification for the World Cup. In the scenario of three wins, they need to hope South Africa don't win more than three while Ireland don't win more than two of their remaining games. Even if Sri Lanka win their remaining four games, they still need South Africa to lose a game.
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South Africa
Played - 16, Points - 59
Remaining matches - 3 vs Australia (A), 3 vs England (H) and 2 vs Netherlands (H)
South Africa still have eight matches to be played, but three of those are against Australia, a series for which they will lose points due to forfeiture. South Africa can qualify for the World Cup irrespective of other results if they win the remaining five games. They must, however, win at least three matches to have a chance of a No.8 finish.
Tim Paine has accused South Africa of ball tampering in the Test match immediately after Australian cricket was rocked by the sandpaper-gate scandal, claiming the act was covered up by match broadcasters.
In a lengthy chapter on the 2018 tour, Paine went to great lengths to point out that ball tampering was commonplace in cricket and that it was the sport's dirty little secret. Faf du Plessis, who was South Africa captain at the time, makes similar claims in his upcoming book.
Regardless, he says he was left furious when he spotted South Africa allegedly pulling apart the seam of the ball in the following Test.
"I saw it happen in the fourth Test of that series," Paine wrote. "Think about that. After everything that had happened in Cape Town, after all the headlines and bans and carry on.
"I was standing at the bowlers' end in the next Test when a shot came up on the screen of a South African player at mid-off having a huge crack at the ball.
"The television director, who had played an active role in catching out Cam, immediately pulled the shot off the screen. We went to the umpires about it, which might seem a bit poor, but we'd been slaughtered and were convinced they'd been up to it since the first Test. But the footage got lost. As it would."
Meanwhile, du Plessis has said that South Africa were suspicious that Australia were tampering with the ball earlier in the series before the controversy erupted at Newlands, specifically referencing how much reverse swing there was in the opening match in Durban, referencing "borderline unplayable" deliveries from Mitchell Starc.
"We suspected that someone had been nurturing the ball too much to get it to reverse so wildly, and we watched the second Test at St George's through binoculars, so that we could follow the ball more closely while Australia was fielding," he writes in Faf: Through Fire.
"When we noticed that the ball was going to David Warner quite often - our changing room must have looked like a birdwatching hide as we peered intently through our binoculars."
So I've been seeing some complaints about the SL schedule so had a quick look at it over the weekend.
On average SL has 3.25 day turnaround time between games
Which is worse than
Pak
Ind
Eng
...Who has the most number of days between games.
And the same as
Aus
ZIM
SA
SL
NED
AFG
NZ
BD
Ireland has the worst average turnaround time with 3 days.
However, SL is one of 4 countries with the shortest gap between matches (2 days), along with Engl AFG, Ireland. They are shown in the pink shade in the grid.
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Then cuz I was bored I checked distances travelled ( I used basic driving distances but flying should be more or less the same) cuz Aus is a big boi of a country.
Aus
ZIM
SA
Travel the most
SL is 4th after this.
NZ
IRE
BD
Travel the least.
As a reference for distance, I used this chart (in KM), which I put together using google maps.
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![[Image: 24-10-2022-10-44-11-AM.png]](https://i.postimg.cc/y8tZLKMj/24-10-2022-10-44-11-AM.png)
![[Image: 24-10-2022-10-20-38-AM.png]](https://i.postimg.cc/bYCH1xFQ/24-10-2022-10-20-38-AM.png)
![[Image: 24-10-2022-10-32-18-AM.png]](https://i.postimg.cc/N0nrPcZb/24-10-2022-10-32-18-AM.png)
![[Image: 24-10-2022-10-26-00-AM.png]](https://i.postimg.cc/3R3CFnTZ/24-10-2022-10-26-00-AM.png)
