Ready Reckoner - ICC World Cup Qualifiers Betting Tips

The ICC World Cup Qualifiers, which kicks off in Zimbabwe on Sunday (March 4th), sees six Associate sides and, for the first time, cricket jackpot tips four Full Members battling it out for the two qualifier's spots available at the 2019 World Cup in England.

​Whilst the regrettable reduction of the game's pinnacle event means at most a couple, and more likely none of cricket less-celebrated nations will be seen at the World Cup, cricket bookies tips it does add some star power to the Qualifier event, with the West Indies and Zimbabwe joining new Full Members Afghanistan and Ireland, together with their erstwhile fellow Associates the Netherlands, Scotland, Hong Kong, jsk cricket tips Papua New Guinea, the UAE and Nepal for what may well turn out to be a more exciting tournament than the World Cup they're looking to qualify for.

The Prize
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Two berths at the 2019 World Cup to be held in England in June. For the West Indies and Zimbabwe, it's a last chance to claim what they have previously enjoyed by virtue of their Full Member status. cricket betting tips jsk For Afghanistan, Ireland and the Netherlands (who recently won the right to the 13th spot in the ICC's new planned ODI league) it's and a chance to show they belong with the big boys.
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To the rest of the Associates, that's nine all-too-rare fixtures against Full Member nations and a chance to show their stuff on the game's biggest stage. For Scotland, cricket win tips Hong Kong, Papua New Guinea, the UAE and Nepal the tournament also has an arguably more significant role too. cricket betting tips guru As the final tournament in this cycle's World Cricket League, final standings at the Qualifier will determine their place in the Associate hierarchy for the next cycle, with the top three of the five being awarded ODI status for the next four years.

The Format
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The teams are split into two groups of five, with the Harare-based Group A comprising the West Indies, Ireland, the Netherlands, PNG and the UAE and Group B, down in Bulawayo, consisting of Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, Scotland, Hong Kong and Nepal. cricket tipster The groups will play out a single round robin, free cricket tips online each team playing one another once, before the top three teams progress to the Super Sixes while the bottom two enter "losers playoffs" to determine final standings at the bottom of the table.
If results play out according to seeding (far from guaranteed at these tournaments) these playoffs will see teams facing off in a single game with ODI status on the line. free cricket betting tips baazigar First the 4th placed team from Group A will face the 5th from Group B (and vice versa) in cross-over matches, before the winners move on to the 7th place playoff and the losers seek to avoid the wooden spoon.
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The top three from each group meanwhile will progress to an abbreviated version of the traditional "Super Six" format, free cricket tips shaan playing only the three teams from the opposite group and carrying points forward (only) from their group games against the other two promoted teams.

At the end of the Super Six stage, the top two teams on points contest the final, with both assured of qualification for the World Cup. cricket betting tips in hindi In the event of teams ending up on equal points, the first tie- breaker will (rather unusually) be total wins ahead of net run rate - a curiosity which may well come into play with plenty of heavy weather expected throughout the tournament.

The Conditions

The aforementioned rain has already taken its toll on the warm-up matches, ipl betting tips with three washouts and several more interrupted games in the week ahead of the tournament proper, cricket tips in hindi and will likely also have had an effect on the preparation of the surfaces.
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Word in Zimbabwe is that the determined efforts of Zimbabwe Cricket and the ICC in the lead-up to the event will mean the pitches are expected to be faster and bouncier than has been the norm recently, with plenty of zip anticipated at Harare Sports Club especially. cricket betting tips shaan Old Hararians, however, remains a tougher batting surface, and spin is generally expected to play a key roll at the grounds in Bulawayo

It is Afghanistan's greater experience with these sorts of tournaments as much as anything that makes them the bookies' favourites to win.cricket betting tips report free Although with young stand-in captain Rashid Khan in phenomenal form, and still younger spin-partner Mujeeb Zadran already looking dominant at senior level, there are plenty of on-field reasons to back the Afghans too. cricket betting tips 7 Though their occasionally brittle batting was twice exposed in the warm-up games, with top-order collapses against the West Indies and the Dutch suggesting a very real vulnerability, anything short of a finals spot would be a surprise as well as a disappointment.
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Hosts Zimbabwe look most likely to benefit should either of the two favourites stumble, despite their poor form in the run-up to the competition and the misfortune of being landed in spin friendly Bulawayo in a group full of Asian teams boasting dangerous slow-bowling units. cricket betting tips free blogspot The return of Brendan Taylor and Kyle Jarvis to national colours nevertheless means this will be the strongest team Zimbabwe have fielded in recent times, and with deep (albeit unreliable) batting line-up and a more than competent attack of their own, not to mention home advantage, Zimbabwe's chances are likely a lot better than even their own fans tend to believe.