The 2007 Cricket World Cup is only days away and if the warm up matches are any indication there is a lot of drama to come in this edition. Let’s hope most of that is on the field. But there is just enough time to take a look back at what happened 4 years ago. Found this on some mailing list..
Just in case you were still wondering why India lost the final of the 2003 world cup after playing so well in the league games, probably here lies the answer…
The teams that qualified for the super six stage:
India, Sri Lanka, Australia, New Zealand, Kenya, Zimabawe.
Note there are two teams each from the continents of Asia, Australia & Africa respectively.The teams that have the last alphabet “a” in their names qualified for the Semifinals viz.
Indi’a', Australi’a', Keny’a’ & Sri Lank’a’.The teams that have alphabets “ia” at the last of their name qualified for the Final i.e.
Ind’ia’ & Austral’ia’.Now,
Kisne World Cup ”lia” - Austra”lia”Wait there’s more…
Kisne World Cup “dia” - In”dia”
