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Heros and Villains...9A
Who is Ahead of the Race at the end of Round II Of World Cup?
With the match between Sri Lanka and Bangaldesh, the round II of the Cricket World Cup 2007 came to an end. At this stage every one f the 16 teams have played two matches each and the race for the "NCR Man of World Cup 2007" gained momentum.
The 16 teams are divided into 4 groups as follows:
Group A Group B Group C Group D Australia Sri Lanka New Zealand Pakistan South Africa India England West Indies Scotland Bangladesh Kenya Zimbabwe Netherlands Bermuda Canada Ireland We can now look at leaders and laggards in each country and each group besides the overall ranking.
Overall Ranking:
In overall ranking the top 10 players according to NCR ranking are as follows: (PS: Rankings are based on the Naavi Cricket Rating Methodology details of which are available at http://www.naavi.org/cwc_2007
Rank Points Name
Country
1 211 Dwyane Smith West Indies 2 164 D Bravo West Indies 3 165 Scott Styris NewZealand 4 150 S Dhaniram Canada 5 144 Samuels West Indies 6 140 Mashrafe Mortaza Bangladesh 7 134 BRM Taylor Zimbabwe 8 126 G Smith South Africa 9 123 S Jayasurya Sri Lanka 10 118
Niall O'Brien
Ireland The bottom 10 players whom we call as the "Laggards of the World Cup 2007" are as follows.
Rank Points Name
Country
97 -8 Rainsford Zimbabwe 98 -11 J Patel NewZealand -11 Hamilton Scotland 99 -12 D Nel Scotland 100 -14 J Dalrymple England 101 -15 D Obuya Kenya 102 -18 B Zuiderant Netherlands 103 -22
Azar Mahmood
Pakistan 104 -23 I Romaine Bermuda 105 -25 H Osinde Canada 106 -47 Odhiyambo Kenya The Group leaders are as follows:
Group Top Player Country NCR Rating A Gream Smith South Africa 126 B Mashrafe Mortaza Bangladesh 140 C Scott Styris New Zealand 165 D Dwayne Smith West Indies 220 Each of the 16 countries had its individual leaders and they were:
Country Top Player NCR Rating Group A Australia Brad Hodge 103 South Africa Gream Smith 126 Scotland Majid Haq 100 Netherlands TBM Leede 103 Group B Sri Lanka S Jayasurya 123 India Virender Sehwag 84 Bangladesh Marshafe Mortaza 140 Bermuda Kevin Hudle 101 Group C New Zealand Scott Styris 165 England Kevin Pieterson 81 Kenya Steve Tikolo 101 Canada S.Dhaniram 150 Group D Pakistan Rao Iftikhar Anjum 101 West Indies Dwayne Smith 220 Zimbabwe BRM Taylor 134 Ireland Niell O Brien 118 The above players have taken the early lead in the long race and we shall follow their progress from match to match.
Naavi
March 22, 2007
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