World Cup 2007 and thst's CRICKET

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Today Morning, I spared around 2 hours to watch Australia v. New Zealand Cricket match and especially to watch how New Zealand thrashes Australia after I knew from http://www.cricinfo.com/ that New Zealand is slowly marching towards victory. I was very happy when the Australia lost the match. Undoubtedly, Australia was the best team and still the best but their unnecessarily aggressive behaviour makes them worse. I remember in recently concluded CB Series, one of the players from New Zealand termed Australia as the bunch of “egomaniacs” and in fact, really they are. The match had started from 3 O’clock in the morning and there were no possibilities/chances to watch the Australian batting as sleeping is more important for me.

The New Zealand had a comfortable victory over Australia by 5 wickets in this Chappell-Hadlee Trophy. There is still a match to go in this series but New Zealand has already won two matches and has sealed the door of victory. The last match can be of little importance to the world except for Australia to salvage the grief of two series losses. That is, the earlier one was the loss with England in CB Series though Australia had comfortably thrashed England in Test Matches by winning the matches by 5-0 white wash after many many (more than 80+) years. I am seeing the flashes of News in T.V that Australia had lost their First Position in ICC Ranking almost after 6 years. For the first time, the ICC Ranking was introduced in 2002, and till today, Australia was comfortably at No.1.

It seems that this last match on Tuesday between New Zealand and Australia will be the last match for any country in limited overs One Day International Match before World Cup kick-starts in West Indies in the month of March.

The ICC Cricket World Cup, generally referred to as the Cricket World Cup, is the premier international championship of men's One-day International (ODI) cricket. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), with preliminary qualification rounds leading up to a finals tournament which is held every four years. Source: http://cricket-world-cup-2007.cricket.deepthi.com/

It is a tournament held quadrenially between all Test-playing nations (currently 10 nations), plus qualifiers. The WORLD CUP CRICKET, 2007 tournament will be held in the West Indies in 2007 and will consist of 16 teams.
Among the South Asian Countries, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh will be playing in 2007 World Cup Cricket.

The top two teams from each of the four groups will qualify for the second round, the Super Eight Series.

Match schedule for the 2007 Cricket World Cup (ICC CWC 2007) can be seen either from http://cricket-world-cup-2007.cricket.deepthi.com/ and http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/4699023.stm and http://www.icc-cricket.com/icc/events/worldcup/schedule.html. The last being the most authentic as this is the Web site of International Cricket Council, the prime governing body of Cricket all over the world.

Wikipedia says this:

“The 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup will be hosted by the West Indies from March 13 to April 28, 2007. There will be a total of fifty one matches played in the 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup, which is three matches less than the 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup, despite the two extra teams taking part. It will be contested by 16 nations divided into 4 groups of 4 teams. The top two teams from each group will then compete in a "Super 8" format, similar to the previous "Super 6" format, from which the semi-finalists will be decided.” Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Cricket_World_Cup
You can see more about Cricket from the website of International Body of Cricket, ICC at http://www.icc-cricket.com/

Current Ranking of the World’s Top Ten Teams
1. South Africa 128 points
2. Australia 126
3. Pakistan 111
4. New Zealand 111
5. India 109
6. Sri Lanka 108
7. England 106
8. West Indies 101
9. Bangladesh 42
10. Zimbabwe 22

Source: http://www.eurosport.com/cricket/chappell-hadlee-trophy/2007/sport_sto1090598.shtml