Tagged: cricket world cup

Competitive ODI matches - The Dismal Science

Seamus Hogan • Mar 26, 2015 •

• cricket,
• cricket world cup

Before the current cricket world cup started, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that the next event (in 2019), would feature only 10 teams, the eight highest-ranked to qualify automatically, and two to be selected by a qualifying tourna... Read More

The trouble with Net Run Rate - The Dismal Science

Seamus Hogan • Feb 26, 2015 •

• cricket,
• cricket world cup,
• WASP

In any competition in which there is pool or round-robin play to rank teams before playoff rounds, there needs to be some method of deciding the relative ranking of teams who finish equal on wins and losses. Ideally, this method will reward the teams t... Read More