ICC World Cup 2015 Predictions, Fixtures and Schedules, Point tables

ICC Cricket World Cup 2015

As days are passing by, we are drawing closer and closer to ICC Cricket World Cup 2015.Fans are undoubtedly waiting for this terrific event to take place, they are waiting keenly to enchant their slogans, to give standup applause to their stars. Cricket is really trending worldwide, everyday increasing its popularity.  ICC World Cup 2015

The British national game has left a real mark on minds of people it is not just confined to England now. The 11^th world cup of 2015 f cricket history is to be started next year from 14th February and it will last till 29^th of March.49 matches in total are to be played in total, among nations playing with passion. These matches are to be played in 14 different venues at Australia and New Zealand. Australia will be hosting 26 world cup fixtures in 7 different cities while New Zealand is going to host 23 matches. The biggest match of the event will be played in Melbourne, Australia which is of course the final of the tournament. This honor of hosting cricket world cup was given to Australia and New Zealand when they placed a bid at the end of world cup cricket 2011.

Next World cup is going to be played in England in 2019.Cities which are to host World cup fixtures in Australia are Adelaide, Hobart, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Sydney and Perth. New Zealand on the hand will be hosting matches Christchurch, Hamilton, Wellington, Napier, Dunedin, Auckland and Nelson. The significance of this world cup is that it will be largest world cup in history of cricket up till now. It will be among 14 teams all fighting hard and having great desire to seize the opportunity.

 

The previous world cup hosted by Asian countries was won by India, but defending team will be facing large problems on these tracks. Anyhow, all teams are looking forward to this event. Many matches in this tournament are most awaited due to rivalry between nations. India vs. Pakistan, England vs. Australia can be said as most awaited matches. No matter what the outcomes will be cricket fans are in real haste, they are fantasizing world cup, and this humongous tournament is really bringing cheer and delight to their faces.

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Merit and Tournament Structure of World Cup 2015

ICC tried to reduce number of participating teams to 10 after World cup 2011, but ICC faced huge criticism by cricket boards of many nations mainly Ireland Cricket Board. Irish team really performed really well in former World Cups and it was thought to be a very rude decision. ICC reversed its decision and made a new decision of allowing 14 teams to participate in World cup 2015.

The World Cup Cricket 2015 will be played among 14 nations. The structure of the tournament is quite similar to 2011 world cup. There will be two groups which will consist of seven teams each, the teams will play each other to secure their position for quarter finals, on the basis of points the four top teams from both groups will be selected for quarter finals. The winner teams of Quarter finals will play each other for attaining place in semi finals and two winner teams of semi finals will play at Melbourne in Final for the biggest trophy of cricket world named as World Cup.

Teams Qualified for ICC World Cup 2015

The first ten teams automatically qualified for world cup on the basis of their rankings. While, the last four teams had to play qualifying matches to win their place in world cup 2015.

Teams	Qualification    Automatic Qualification	Rank	Group
England		1	A
South Africa		2	B
India		3	B
Australia		4	A
Sri Lanka		5	A
Pakistan		6	B
West Indies		7	B
Bangladesh		8	A
New Zealand		9	A
Zimbabwe		10	B
Ireland	WCL Championship	11	B
Afghanistan		12	A
Scotland	World Cup Qualifiers	13	A
U.A.E		14	B

 

Preparations and prize of winning the World cup 2015

It is planned for World Cup Cricket 2015 to be most watched and fans friendly world cup ever. The ICC has sold rights to may sports channels for broadcasting and planning is done to take cricket a step further.

An organizing committee was formed and was finalized. The major three names of this organizing committee are:

• John Harden – Chief executive
• James Strong – Chairman
• Ralph Waters – Deputy Chairman

 

ICC has set prize money total to $10,225,000.This money is quite more than the prize money of 2011 world cup. It will be allocated between teams on the basis of their performance regarding world cup. The wining team of tournament will get $3,975,000 while the teams which knocked out in group stage will be getting prize money of $210,000 each.

 

Stages	Money	Total Funds
Winner Team	$3,975,000	$3,975,000
Losing team(final)	$1,750,000	$1,750,000
Semi-Final losers	$600,000	$1,200,000
Quarter-final losers	$300,000	$1,200,000
Group stage winnings	$45.000	$1,890,000
Eliminated teams(group stage)	$35,000	$210,000
Total		$10,225,000

 

It actually indicates that prize money for winning single match in tournament is $45,000 and if a team remains undefeated throughout the tournament it will get winning amount plus prize of one match multiplied by total number of wins in the tournament.

 

World Cup Warm-up Fixtures

World cup warm up matches are to be played from 8^th February till 13^th February. They are 14 in number.

 

Date	Fixtures	Location
February 8, 2015	Australia v India	Adelaide
February 9, 2015	South Africa v Sri Lanka	Christchurch
February 9, 2015	New Zealand v Zimbabwe	Lincoln
February 9, 2015	England v West Indies	Sydney
February 9, 2015	Pakistan v Bangladesh	Sydney
February 10, 2015	Ireland v Scotland	Sydney
February 10, 2015	India v Afghanistan	Adelaide
February 11, 2015	New Zealand v South Africa	Christchurch
February 11, 2015	Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe	Lincoln
February 11, 2015	Australia v U.A.E	Melbourne
February 11, 2015	England v Pakistan	Sydney
February 12, 2015	West Indies v Scotland	Sydney
February 12, 2015	Ireland v Bangladesh	Sydney
February 13, 2015	Afghanistan v U.A.E	Melbourne
Pool A and B Teams and Fixtures   Pool A Table   Teams Played Won Lost Tied Nr Net Run Rate Points England               Australia               Sri Lanka               Bangladesh               New Zealand               Afghanistan               Scotland                   Schedule:   14 February 11:00   New Zealand  v  Sri Lanka   Match 1 Halley Oval, Christchurch 14 February 14:30 (D/N)   Australia  v  England   Match 2 Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne 17 February 11:00   New Zealand  v  Scotland   Match 6 University Oval, Dunedin 18 February 14:30 (D/N)   Afghanistan  v  Bangladesh   Match 7 Minooka Oval, Canberra 20 February 14:00 (D/N)   New Zealand  v  England   Match 9 Westpac Stadium, Wellington 21 February 13:30 (D/N)   Australia  v  Bangladesh   Match 11 Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane 22 February 11:00   Afghanistan  v  Sri Lanka   Match 12 University Oval, Dunedin 23 February 11:00   England  v  Scotland   Match 14 Halley Oval, Christchurch 26 February 11:00   Afghanistan  v  Scotland   Match 17 University Oval, Dunedin 26 February 14:30 (D/N)   Bangladesh  v  Sri Lanka   Match 18 Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne 28 February 14:00 (D/N)   New Zealand  v  Australia   Match 20 Eden Park, Auckland 1 March 11:00   England  v  Sri Lanka   Match 22 Westpac Stadium, Wellington 4 March 14:30 (D/N)   Australia  v  Afghanistan   Match 26 WACA Ground, Perth 5 March 11:00   Bangladesh  v  Scotland   Match 27 Saxton Oval, Nelson 8 March 11:00   New Zealand  v  Afghanistan   Match 31 McLean Park, Napier 8 March 14:30 (D/N)   Australia  v  Sri Lanka   Match 32 Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney 9 March 14:00 (D/N)   Bangladesh  v  England   Match 33 Adelaide Oval, Adelaide 11 March 14:30 (D/N)   Scotland  v  Sri Lanka   Match 35 Belle rive Oval, Hobart 13 March 14:00 (D/N)   New Zealand  v  Bangladesh   Match 37 Sidon Park, Hamilton 13 March 14:30 (D/N)   Afghanistan  v  England   Match 38 Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney 14 March 14:30 (D/N)   Australia  v  Scotland   Match 40 Belle rive Oval, Hobart       Pool B table   Teams Played Won Lost Tied Nr Net Run rate Points South Africa               India               Pakistan               West Indies               Zimbabwe               Ireland               U.A.E                 Schedule:   15 February 14:00 (D/N)   South Africa  v  Zimbabwe   Match 3 Sadden Park, Hamilton 15 February 14:00 (D/N)   India  v  Pakistan   Match 4 Adelaide Oval, Adelaide 16 February 11:00   Ireland  v  West Indies   Match 5 Saxton Oval, Nelson 19 February 11:00                 United Arab Emirates  v  Zimbabwe   Match 8 Saxton Oval, Nelson 21 February 11:00   Pakistan  v  West Indies   Match 10 Halley Oval, Christchurch 22 February 14:30 (D/N)   India  v  South Africa   Match 13 Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne 24 February 14:30 (D/N)   West Indies  v  Zimbabwe   Match 15 Minooka Oval, Canberra 25 February 13:30 (D/N)   Ireland  v  United Arab Emirates   Match 16 Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane 27 February 14:30 (D/N)   South Africa  v  West Indies   Match 19 Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney 28 February 14:30 (D/N)   India  v  United Arab Emirates   Match 21 WACA Ground, Perth 1 March 13:30 (D/N)   Pakistan  v  Zimbabwe   Match 23 Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane 3 March 14:30 (D/N)   Ireland  v  South Africa   Match 24 Minooka Oval, Canberra 4 March 14:00 (D/N)   Pakistan  v  United Arab Emirates   Match 25 McLean Park, Napier 6 March 14:30 (D/N)   India  v  West Indies   Match 28 WACA Ground, Perth 7 March 14:00 (D/N)   Pakistan  v  South Africa   Match 29 Eden Park, Auckland 7 March 14:30 (D/N)   Ireland  v  Zimbabwe   Match 30 Belle rive Oval, Hobart 10 March 14:00 (D/N)   India  v  Ireland   Match 34 Sidon Park, Hamilton 12 March 14:00 (D/N)   South Africa  v  United Arab Emirates   Match 36 Westpac Stadium, Wellington 14 March 14:00 (D/N)   India  v  Zimbabwe   Match 39 Eden Park, Auckland 15 March 11:00   United Arab Emirates  v  West Indies   Match 41 McLean Park, Napier 15 March 14:00 (D/N) Scorecard   Ireland  v  Pakistan   Match 42 Adelaide Oval, Adelaide     Quarter Finals   World cup quarter finals will be played between eight teams, four top teams on the basis of points will be selected out of seven teams in each group. The team at first position in pool A will play fourth positioned team of pool B, team positioned second in pool A will play third team in pool B, team positioned third in pool A will play second team of pool B and at last team on fourth position in pool A will be playing with first positioned team in pool B for qualifying for semi finals.   The structure of semi finals will be:   A1 V B4 1st Quarterfinal   18th March(D/N),Sydney A2 V B3 2nd Quarterfinal    19th March(D/N),Melbourne A3 V B2 3rd Quarterfinal   20th March(D/N),Adelaide A4 V B1 4th Quarterfinal   21th March(D/N),Wellington     Semi Finals   Semi Finals will be played between four winner teams of Quarterfinals.   1st Semi Final 24th March(D/N), Auckland 2nd Semi Final 26th March(D/N), Sydney     Final   The final of the tournament will be played on 29th march 2015 in Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne at 14:30.It will be a day/night match.   ICC World Cup Trophy 2015

 

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