ICC World Cup Qualifiers 2009, South Africa, 1-19 April 2009

lardbucket wrote:Not nearly enough Khyber bullying.

lardy in spiv-esque khyber pass allusion shocker.

twit, Khyber-bullying v cyber-bullying

I remind you, you're the Dubber ... so I'm not entirely surprised you went off on that tangent

You started it.

You started it, the perfect get out clause.

It's better than a poo withdrawal.

You've been Alaskan pipelining again, zatty?

Nope. And haven't been blumpkin hunting either.

Not a Khybersex fan, then?

Anyways, the first round of the S8 has taken place.

In what I would term an upset, Afghanistan has taken a match off the previously impervious Ireland. (Afg 7/218 off 50 overs, Ire 196 off 47.3). I didn't think the 218 would be nearly enough, given that the bowling has been Afghanistan's weakness to this point. Hamid Hassan took 5/23. White and O'Brien made late order 50s for Ireland, but in vain. Afghanistan will be glad to get some points on the board against a stronger team.

In another surprising result (and a similar scorecard), Scotland beat the Netherlands (Sco 8/216 off 50, Ned 190 off 48.4). Blain took a michelle for Scotland.

Namibia beat UAE (Nam 7/280 off 50, UAE 9/231 off 50).

Canada beat Kenya (Ken 181 off 43.5, Can 3/185 off 34.3). The real damage was done by Kenyan-born Canadian Osinde, funnily enough (4/39 off 9.)

Table reads:

Canada 6
Ireland 6
Kenya 4
Netherlands 4
Scotland 4
UAE 4
Afghanistan 2
Namibia 2


In the 9th place playoff semis, Bermuda beat Oman by 8 wickets, and Uganda beat Denmark by 62 runs.

This coudl turn out to be a tournament where the S8 stage isn't redundant after the first or second matches. Due to those results, every team is still very much alive.

Go on Afghanistan. Good luck to them.

The Afghanis have three games left, and are one win, plus NRR out of the top four.

They play Scotland, Canada and Namibia. Realistically, they'll need to win all of them to get to 8 points to keep themselves alive. Good luck to them, but I think the loss to the UAE in the group stage may wind up being fatal for their aspirations.

Yeah . . . I can see the banindians working out a 7 match one-day series against them already . . . .

Just so I'm clear an that concept, that'd be the same Banindians who are yet to host a full tour by Bangladesh, right?

Oh, they wouldn't play in India . . . don't think me so foolish at to suggest that . . .

Just making sure we're on the same page.

2nd round of the S8

Netherlands beat Namibia by 2 wickets, surprisingly close. (Nam 8/258 off 50 Neth 8/262 off 47.1) Tendo was more than half Netherlands' score, but went for a few as a bowler.

Canada beat Afghanistan by 6 wickets. (Afg 8/265 off 50, Can 4/268 of 48.3).

Kenya beat Scotland by 24 runs. (Ken 178 off 49.4, Sco 154 off 47.2)

Ireland beat UAE by 8 wickets. (UAE 133 off 39.5, Ireland 2/134 off 27.4)

Canada 8
Ireland 8
Kenya 6
Netherlands 6
Scotland 4
UAE 4
Afghanistan 2
Namibia 2



In the lower-place play-off matches, Bermuda beat Uganda by 8 wickets, and Oman beat Denmark by 5 wickets. Denmark were the only team to go through the whole tournament without a win.

9th Bermuda
10th Uganda
11th Oman
12th Denmark

That's the end of the road for Afghanistan, isn't it?

I noticed that the Bermuda 8-wicket win over Uganda was after chasing down 352. Shame they coudln't have shown something like that attitude earlier in the tournament.

Afghanistan win again, with a one-two against Ireland and Scotland.

They are still doomed as regards WC qualification though.

Pity, I was really rooting for the Afghans

Kenya is bouncing back!!!

*Only in Kenya ...*

What the? Namibia beat Kenya by 201 runs. (Nam 305 off 49.5, Ken 104 off 30.0) The three Burgers did most of the work. I did not expect this at all.

Also surprising is UAE's win over Canada. (Can 194 off 49.5, UAE 5/200 off 31.2). Lighting knock by opener Amjad Javed put the Emiratis in a good position. Winning runs were brought up by a six by Nayak

Ireland sailed home versus Netherlands. (Ned 222 off 50, Ire 4/226 off 44.3) Porterfield's 78 set Ireland up. Tendo has left the tournament to play for Essex.


A clatter of wickets sealed victory for Afghanistan over Scotland. (Afg 279 off 50 Sco 237 off 47.1). At the end of the 45th over, Scotland was 6/223 and it was looking like they might have a chance of getting home. The last four wickets fell in nine deliveries. Captain Nowroz Mangal (back from suspension) and Karim Khan were the main runmakers for the victors.

Ireland 10
Canada 8
Kenya 6
Netherlands 6
UAE 6
Namibia 4
Afghanistan 4
Scotland 4

The remaining matches are Scotland v UAE, Afghanistan v Namibia, Canada v Netherlands, Irelands v Kenya.

Technically, only Ireland has sealed a berth at the World Cup. Any of the other teams could qualify, any of the other teams could miss out. Well set up for a tense final round.

"That's the end of the road for Afghanistan, isn't it?"

No, no, they still have a reasonable chance. Basically they need to win their match against Namibia, AND hope that at least two out of Kenya/Netherlands/UAE lose their matches, AND hope they have a good enough NRR. Their NRR is not _too_ bad at present.

For example, if Canada beat Netherlands, Ireland beat Kenya, UAE beat Scotland and Afghanistan beat Namibia (none of which are unlikely outcomes), then the table says::
Ireland 12
Canada 10
UAE 8
Kenya 6
Netherlands 6
Afghanistan 6
Namibia 4
Scotland 4

and it would be up to NRR to determine the fourth qualifier.

Technically, only Ireland has sealed a berth at the World Cup. Any of the other teams could qualify, any of the other teams could miss out. Well set up for a tense final round.

Aye, it's been a good tournament.

Thanks for keeping the thread going BTW

Team	Mat	Won	Lost	Tied	N/R	Pts	Net RR	For	Against
Ireland	6	5	1	0	0	10	+0.860	1226/245.5	1238/300.0
Canada	6	4	2	0	0	8	+0.855	1438/283.0	1151/272.2
Kenya	6	3	3	0	0	6	+0.006	1072/262.2	1146/280.5
Netherlands	6	3	3	0	0	6	-0.019	1395/289.5	1419/293.4
U.A.E.	6	3	3	0	0	6	-0.813	1168/277.5	1204/240.0
Namibia	6	2	4	0	0	4	-0.022	1428/300.0	1397/292.1
Afghanistan	6	2	4	0	0	4	-0.316	1392/300.0	1448/292.1
Scotland	6	2	4	0	0	4	-0.576	1210/300.0	1326/287.4

Must confess I wan't expecting Afghanistan to get over Scotland.

Canada would need to give the Dutch a bit of a touch up, likewise Ireland over Kenya, to drop those NRRs sufficiently. Afghanistan would need a decent win against Namibia to boost their own.

A better result for Afghanistan if the others all happen would be a narrow Scotland win over the UAE, as both their NRRs are below Afghanistan's.

So a fascinating final round in prospect.

It would have been nice if there'd been a separate day for the overall final instead of haveing all top-8 positional deciders at the same time.