T20 World Cup seeding: Three meaningless matches in the next 24 hours will conclude the ongoing 2024 T20 World Cup group stage. The line-up for the next round of the Super Eight stage, or ICC tournament, was revealed on Monday, with Bangladesh securing a place in the final after defeating Nepal in a Group D tie.
The best part of the Super Eight matches were confirmed almost early last week: India (Group A), Australia (Group B), England (Group A), Afghanistan (Group C), West Indies (Group C), South Africa (group). D) and the United States (group A) survived.
Although the draws for the following rounds progress with each match from the previous stage of the tournament, most or all teams were quite well aware of who, when, and where they would face each other in the Super Eight stage.
India, for example, knew even before the tournament began that Australia would be one of their opponents in the Super Eight, regardless of where they placed in the top two in the respective group. Well, it was because of the seeding system that the ICC had just introduced.
Super Eight -Group 1: A1, B2, C1, D2Group 2: A2, B1, C2, D1The two groups of the Super Eight stage have been largely decided through the preliminary tournament based on the ranking given to the teams of all four groups in the initial phase.
However, if the respective teams do not reach the Super Eight, the next best team in the group stage will automatically take the seeds. For example, since Pakistan qualified for the group stage, the second-best team in Group A, the United States, was given the A2 ranking.
T20 World Cup Seeding System
This was the first time the ICC introduced this pre-tournament ranking system for the T20 World Cup, giving a clear picture of the Indian team by showing which three teams would face each other in the Super Eight if they qualified into the top two of the A subgroups.
Rohit Sharma’s men face Australia, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan in the Super Eight. The ranking system cancels the group performance of the top two teams.
For example, Australia went unbeaten in Group B, winning all four matches against Oman, England, Namibia, and Scotland. However, the ICC placed them in B2, meaning that even if they finished second in Group B, they would still face India, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan in the Super Eight.
Although the seeding system was implemented to fine-tune the schedule for traveling Caribbean spectators, it created a series of meaningless group stage matches.
