Cricket World Cup 2007 Super Eight Preview

Cricket World Cup 2007 is now entering an interesting super 8 round. Eight teams Australia, South Africa, West Indies, Ireland, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh ,New Zealand, England are qualifing for the super8 round of the world cup. So far the world cup was moving around the death of Pakistan Coach Bob Wolmer. And the worst ever performance from India and Pakistan as they are out of the world cup now badly beaten by Bangladesh and Ireland respectively. Checkout latest super eight result and for scores world cup super eight live score.

In the super8 round each team will play with the other groups teams i.e each team will play 6 matches in this round and they will compete for Semi Finals. Australia, West Indies, Sri Lanka and New Zealand are entering super8 round with 2 bouns points each as they won the match against other qualifing team from their group. Following summarizes the position of each team qualified for the super eight round.

• Sri Lanka 2 points from Bangladesh NRR: +4.304
• Australia 2 points from South Africa NRR: +1.660
• West Indies 2 points from Ireland NRR: +1.041
• New Zealand 2 points from England NRR: +0.942
• England 0 points, NRR: -0.942
• Ireland 0 points, NRR: -1.041
• South Africa 0 points, NRR: -1.660
• Bangladesh 0 points, NRR: -4.304

An easy going for Australia and New Zealand.

Although the predictions from Group Matches was that it will eliminate all minnows at the first stage of world cup. But the upsets from Bangladesh and Ireland made them qualify for the super eight stage of the world cup. This has made an easy going for Australia and New Zealand as they qualified with bonus points and will play against Bangladesh and Ireland. If there is no more upsets, Australia and New Zealand will win against Bangladesh and Ireland they will get 6 points each. For other teams opportunities are equal. Sri Lanka and West Indies are entering with bonus points but they have only one match each with weak team, i.e Ireland and Bangladesh respectively. On the other hand South Africa and England have two easy matches but they have 0 bonus points.

World Cup 2007 Super Eight Schedule

World cup Super Eight stage will start today i.e. from 27th march 2007. The top four teams from this stage will enter the Semi Finals. Following is the schedule for the rest of the Super Eight series matches.

March 2007

• 27 West Indies v Australia
• 28 South Africa v Sri Lanka
• 29 West Indies v New Zealand
• 30 Ireland v England
• 31 Australia v Bangladesh

April 2007

• 01 West Indies v Sri Lanka
• 02 Bangladesh v New Zealand
• 03 Ireland v South Africa
• 04 England v Sri Lanka
• 07 Bangladesh v South Africa
• 08 Australia v England
• 09 Ireland v New Zealand
• 10 West Indies v South Africa
• 11 England v Bangladesh
• 12 Sri Lanka v New Zealand
• 13 Australia v Ireland
• 14 South Africa v New Zealand
• 15 Bangladesh v Ireland
• 16 Australia v Sri Lanka
• 17 South Africa v England
• 18 Ireland v Sri Lanka
• 19 West Indies v Bangladesh
• 20 Australia v New Zealand
• 21 West Indies v England