2015 ICC Cricket World Cup
The 2015 World Cup is already in its third week. After initial one sided encounters we have seen some interesting contests in last few days. The initial 3 world cups were played in England with 8 participant countries. The format was simple with teams divided into 2 groups of 4 teams each. I started following World Cup in 1983 edition. During this world cup, the 4 countries in each group played each other twice. The matches were played alternate days with day in between those matches served as reserve day in case the weather didn't allow the match on prior day to complete. The advantage of this format was that at a given point of time, all countries would have played same number of matches; hence point table would not paint unrealistic picture. 1987 Reliance World Cup was the first edition when World Cup moved out of England. Slowly with each editions, commercialization took over and number of participant countries was increased to please the associate nations. The sche...