The CRICKETher Weekly – Episode 326: World Cup: England; South Africa & India; England Test Squad

Anyway, yeah.

Um, so Group B, first of all.

Group B.

Now, that might not seem a logical order to tackle things, but here at the Cricket Her Weekly we rarely do things by the book, Sid.

So Group B, it's obviously England's group, um, which we have been following particularly closely because we are following England around this tournament.

So what's the situation in terms of Group B qualification?

Well, England are on top of the group obviously, but the West Indies, uh, are also kind of right up there with them.

The West Indies are having a fantastic tournament.

Uh, and it's really looking like Eng- England and West Indies are gonna be the ones to qualify from that.

They're both, England on 97%, West Indies on 98%, um, qualification.

Uh, then the next best is New Zealand on 2%.

So-

Oh, wow.

Okay

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I mean, so New Zealand aren't mathematically out.

The only, the only team in Group B that are mathematically out of it are Ireland.

Ireland definitely can't qualify.

So it's still possible that Sri Lanka, Scotland, New Zealand could qualify, um, but that would mean, you know, England losing a couple of games, West Indies losing a couple of games.

It's looking, looking like it's gonna be those two teams.

Okay.

Um, so yeah, and England of course did have a, a, that big victory in Leeds, which has kind of helped them to get into that situation.

They did.

So since we last recorded, England have played two matches, um, against two of their neighbors.

Um, so first of all, um, the match against Ireland in Southampton, um, earlier in the week.