ShahidAfridi Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 Can anybody use these as a yardstick to judge teams. NZ who are supposed to be NO 7, they have just beat the NO 4 side in the world easily. Ask any South African players. Rankings or tournaments and they will give you an answer. Pakistan who are 6th, beat Sri Lanka 3rd and Australia 1st , quite easily in the end. In the test arena, rankings may matter but in ODI's. They don't deserve a place.
Stuge Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 hmm well this happens in football as well .Where are weaker team may beat higher ranking team . It has been said time and again that team which plays better on a particular day wins the contest.
punjabi_khota Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 Rankings are reflection of (recent) past, not predictor of future, especially one-off games. You would still back SA to beat NZ in a bilateral ODI series, though.
Lord Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 thats about WC is about,as Viv says favourites dont have the right to win
vvvslaxman Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 Ranking is indicator of consistency not one off matches.
King Tendulkar Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 Can anybody use these as a yardstick to judge teams. NZ who are supposed to be NO 7, they have just beat the NO 4 side in the world easily. Ask any South African players. Rankings or tournaments and they will give you an answer. Pakistan who are 6th, beat Sri Lanka 3rd and Australia 1st , quite easily in the end. In the test arena, rankings may matter but in ODI's. They don't deserve a place. Well thats convinent considering how rubbish and pathetic you guys are in rankings. We will show you the meaning of rankings when we whoop you in mohali!
RedFlow Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 To add more. India No. 2 lost to South Africa No. 4! Now SA lost to No. 7 NZ! Hahahaha
kabira Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 what ranking would mean is If SA and NZ play 5 games, SA will win the series easily, similarly if Pakistan and Australia have 5 ODI series, Australia would win it 3-2 easily. :--D
ShahidAfridi Posted March 25, 2011 Author Posted March 25, 2011 Knockouts are 50-50 Pakistan finished top of their group. We finished higher than Australia and Sri Lanka
vvvslaxman Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 Pakistan finished top of their group. We finished higher than Australia and Sri Lanka Kenya reached semis in 2003.. would you say Kenya was a better side than Pakistan then?
ShahidAfridi Posted March 25, 2011 Author Posted March 25, 2011 Kenya reached semis in 2003.. would you say Kenya was a better side than Pakistan then? As a team, yes- they were more together. As individuals, no way, Pakistan has better players
Hell Raiser Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 Rankings never helped any team in the knock outs. Its not like if a team ranked higher will get a 50 run head start.
nikred Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 Pakistan finished top of their group. We finished higher than Australia and Sri Lanka .......and more such wins will improve your ranking. Thus rankings show how good or pathetic you were in the recent past.
Prakat Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 As a team, yes- they were more together. As individuals, no way, Pakistan has better players :facepalm: chalte chalte logic in operation
phaedrus Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 well depends on where your team is in the rankings.
Zeemazing Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 .......and more such wins will improve your ranking. Thus rankings show how good or pathetic you were in the recent past. things were different then, now we have the wisdom of MIsbah and the fearlessness of Afridi. :hatsoff:to him, exactly what we nedeed, someone with inspiration
Homerus_Unus Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 As a team, yes- they were more together. As individuals, no way, Pakistan has better players It's really hard to say if they were more together than Pakistan. Pakistan obviously played in a much tougher group. Kenya took care of business against B'desh and Canada, and won in an upset vs Sri Lanka. But, that forfeited game by NZ gave them 4 uncontested points that made a lot of difference.
youngindia Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 the thing with sides like NZ is they have some very dangerous players in ryder and taylor. if you get past ryder, mccullum and taylor, its an easy win. but unfortunately for sa, ryder and taylor applied themselves today to give nz a competitive score. ryder will do damage to other sides as well in the coming years if his head is screwed on right.some 70% of the time he may fail. but the 30% of the times he comes good, he will do some damage to the opposition.assuming he realises his talent if i am right, he also put SL out of the champion trophy singlehandedly. their bowling is nothing great but they bowl intelligently and field excelently to put pressure. just do the basics right against lesser sides, silence the few matchwinners they have. the top sides have more matchwinners to silence.
Raghav_12 Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 what ranking would mean is If SA and NZ play 5 games, SA will win the series easily, similarly if Pakistan and Australia have 5 ODI series, Australia would win it 3-2 easily. :--D But only recently, Pakistan had lost to Australia by 9-0..:haha:
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