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Cricket Predictions

I blogged a few articles but haven't completed it yet. (Wrong English maybe, but shorter sentence.) Instead of seeing a zero for articles published, this year or month, I decided to put up the conclusions of an activity that Joey and I spent 3-4 hours discussing.

We love watching international cricket but these days we don't get too heart broken if the Indian cricket team loses. My favourite team is the Sri Lankan cricket team. But my love for them is significantly going to change with the retirement of Muttiah Muralitharan. And in my opinion, there's nothing more beautiful to watch in cricket than a Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene partnership-especially in Australia.

So there, I know a bit to be eligible to predict the favourites. I have also followed other matches to figure out team members (except those from the associate countries) with the help of the Cricinfo website. Joey has been following the game too. So just for funsake, we decided to predict the semi-finalist and the winners.

It was a simple task for Joey but I decided to complicate it a bit. I didn't want us to come up with two names, who might face each other in the quarter finals and then have one team to root for all the way up to the finals.

Now that there are very few matches left in the league stage, we decided to predict the final standings, then come up who would meet whom from the quarter finals onwards till the finals.

Predicted Rankings for groups
For GROUP A, we both predicted:
Australia (AUS) (in their final league match, we expected an Ozzie win)
Sri Lanka (SL)
New Zealand (NZ)
Pakistan (PAK)

For GROUP B
JOEY's ranking          MY Ranking
South Africa (SA)    South Africa (SA)
India (IND)             West Indies (WI)
West Indies (WI)     India (IND)
England (ENG)         England (ENG)

HIS Quarter-final match         MY Quarter-final matches
AUS vs ENG   Winner AUS      AUS vs Eng   Winner AUS
SL vs WI       Winner SL         SL vs IND     Winner SL
NZ vs IND      Winner IND       NZ vs WI      Winner WI 
PAK vs SA     Winner SA         Pak vs SA     Winner SA

HIS Semi-final match             MY Semi-final match
Aus vs IND   Winner IND        Aus vs WI     Winner AUS
SL vs SA      Winner SA          SL vs SA      Winner SA

HIS Final                             MY Final
IND vs SA    Winner IND        AUS vs SA     Winner SA
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