“The lesser teams, in each and every World Cup, they always surprise top teams”
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Legendary India batsman Sachin Tendulkar believes that the World Cup should be expanded to accommodate 25 teams.
“I’ve learnt never to say never to anything”
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International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive David Richardson has announced that “the format of the next World Cup will be debated after this one has finished”.
“It wouldn’t be a World Cup if you just keep reducing teams down to the top few teams that are ranked”
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Ireland captain William Porterfield has become the latest cricketer to slam the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) decision to reduce the number of teams from fourteen to ten in the 2019 World Cup.
“Sports need competition and opportunities for every one.”
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United Arab Emirates head coach Aaqib Javed has slammed the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) decision to decrease the number of teams that will participate in the 2019 World Cup from fourteen to ten.
“We can’t just go into it thinking we’re going to win it just because Bangladesh are ranked lower than us”
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Australia left-arm pace bowler Mitchell Johnson has made it clear that the Baggy Greens will not be taking Bangladesh lightly when the two nations square off against each other on February 21 in Brisbane.
The robot has predicted that Afghanistan will win the World Cup
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A robot at the University of Canterbury has predicted that Afghanistan will win the 2015 World Cup.
“We’d make sure that Ireland and Afghanistan are playing in the region of eight to ten ODIs per year”
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International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive David Richardson has admitted that it will be “difficult to guarantee matches” for Ireland and Afghanistan.
“We seem to be the only sport that has a World Cup that is contracting rather than expanding”
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Ireland batsman Ed Joyce has expressed his disappointment towards the fact that the 2019 World Cup will only feature 10 teams.
“We’ve played nine games against top-eight teams since 2011. Nine games in four years is nothing really. We need to be playing more”
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Ireland captain William Porterfield has made it clear that his side need to play more games against top-ranked opposition.
“We’ll be a very dangerous side regardless of who we’re playing”
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Despite being crushed by 112 runs during their recent ODI tri-series final against Australia, England ODI captain Eoin Morgan has insisted that the national team will be a “dangerous side” during the World Cup.