Champions Trophy 2008 ---- NO BANGLADESH

[al-Sagar]

champions Trophy 2008

India, Australia and Pakistan drawn together

Cricinfo staff

March 13, 2008

The groups for this September's Champions Trophy in Pakistan have been announced by the ICC, and India, Pakistan and Australia have been seeded together.

Group A comprises of defending champion and top seed Australia along with India, Pakistan and the West Indies while Group B is made up of the winner of the inaugural event, South Africa, as well as New Zealand, Sri Lanka and England. The groupings were made on the basis of teams' rankings in the ICC ODI Championship table on March 12, the agreed cut-off date.


It was decided in 2005 that from 2008 the tournament would only include the top eight one-day sides exactly six months before the start of the tournament. As a result, Bangladesh, Ireland and Zimbabwe, who hold the last three places in the table, miss out.


The two groups will be played on a round-robin format with the top two sides progressing to the semi-finals. The full tournament schedule and information regarding venues will be announced by the ICC in due course.

Group A Australia (1), India (4), Pakistan (5), West Indies (8)
Group B South Africa (2), New Zealand (3), Sri Lanka (6), England (7)

so no bangladesh .......................

[Protic]

I think WE SHOULD TRY AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
We are a GOD DAMN TEST NATION!!.. ACTIVE TEST NATION.

[nasimul]

Originally Posted by Protic
I think WE SHOULD TRY AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
We are a GOD DAMN TEST NATION!!.. ACTIVE TEST NATION.

What can we do and why they will listen to us if we dont perform??

[Yameen]

Thats a disgrace, they just cant take what happened in WC'07

[Rabz]

Enough of the free ride.
Lets earn it next time.

we cant even score 200 in either forms of the game, how would you expect them to include us into everything.

Champions trophy meant to be for the "champions".

we are chumps, not champs.

[Rabz]

...and it was decided back in 2005.

So, stop blaming India for everything.

[Shehwar]

Hmm...I think we might still have a chance guys......What if Australia pulls out due to security concerns!!!

[Kabir]

Why am I not surprised.
Anyway, I hate the complaining nature of a few people. BD team isn't performing...and personally I feel that they will have to make a very strong case if they want to be considered for any other tourney of this sort.

[Sohel]

Originally Posted by Rabz
Enough of the free ride.
Lets earn it next time.

we cant even score 200 in either forms of the game, how would you expect them to include us into everything.

Champions trophy meant to be for the "champions".

we are chumps, not champs.

Truth hurts, but it can also make us better Inshallah.

[Mahmood]

I wont complain about this. If the rule was hard coded the country names, I could complain. But its based on performence and the top eight will play. If we can perform and rank in the top eight, it would be us playing, fair enough.

[sayem]

Very good ,move by ICC and I hope it will also happen in Tests too...it will teach them a lesson and why BD shouldn't given free ride at every thing!!

[Protic]

Cant they make it like last time ? it was FAIR.. Top 6 gets an automatic call.. and last 4 fight for 2 spots.. Im sure then Bangladesh will have a good chance of playing the tourny.

[Rifat]

excellent decision! another opportunity destroyed in order for us to humiliate ourselves, oh please we even humiliate ourselves at back home, God knows what about abroad

[Rabz]

Originally Posted by Sohel NR
Truth hurts, but it can also make us better Inshallah.

Wishful thinking bro.

Somethings never change.
like Ashraful's head.

[amit1]

there is nothing wrong in this. this was decided in 2005 itself & bangladesh had enough time to get into the top 8 in this time. as of now, matches played before august 2005 dont even count in the icc rankings, so in the last 2.5 years, if bangladesh had won some more matches, the situation could have been different. and by the time 2010 champions trophy comes, bangladesh should be there as bd will be a top 8 team by 2010. and stop blaming india for everything

[Rabz]

It was on the news:

Even though we wont play in the CT, we'd still get a cut of the profit as we are a full member nation.

How good is that?

[sandpiper]

Champions Trophy dekhum na

[auntu]

Originally Posted by Rabz
It was on the news:

Even though we wont play in the CT, we'd still get a cut of the profit as we are a full member nation.

How good is that?

juta mere goru dan

etao dorkar r koto free ride?

[BD-Shardul]

If we were ranked 8th, the rule would been like this:

Top six will automatically play, the remaining four teams will have to compete among themselves and two will go to the main tourney.

[akabir77]

well we might get a chance to play after all. If Australia also pulls out from Pakistan then they have to invite us to make it an 8. so hurray to the terrorists...lol

[Rizvi]

I Am Shocked!!!
We Are A Pretty Damn Good Test Team!!

[AsifTheManRahman]

Oh well, something like this was bound to happen given how we've been performing over a stretch of a good few years.

In any case, I've just lost all interest in the Champions Trophy.

[sadhat]

Thanks GOD. No humiliation at least. No series no humiliation! We need play against A team first.

[sadhat]

Originally Posted by akabir77
well we might get a chance to play after all. If Australia also pulls out from Pakistan then they have to invite us to make it an 8. so hurray to the terrorists...lol

Are you serious or just joking?

[bdchamp20]

frankly I dont care about the Champs Trophy its just another pathetic attempt for the ICC to make money...its just a waste of space in the cricketing calendar