Matt Henry
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 4 Jun
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We had a very impressive match, even though one-sided, between New Zealand and South Africa.
And then India's run at the back end of that Super 8 sort of lifted the Super 8 a little bit towards the back end.
i will always still bang the drum for more knockout matches get to quarterfinals sooner if that means scrapping the super eights then so be it we've seen that the group stage now is a competitive and a part of the tournament in its own right it used to sort of just be the build-up that got us to the point where the so-called bigger teams or the higher ranked teams were
then competing against each other was almost a vehicle to get to that point.
That's not the case anymore, because as we've seen, the lower ranked teams can beat the higher ranked teams.
So let's almost champion that early part of the tournament, get into some knockouts, and then really put the cat amongst the pigeons from there.
Yeah, momentum is the key thing there, doesn't it?
Because we had it.
Everyone forgets back in 2019 in England, where we had that week where it never stopped raining in Bristol in the southwest when we had games wiped out.
But yeah, it's allowed the tournament to get a nice flow to keep going.
I do think one little issue I've had, and it kind of goes back to that Super 8 point, it felt like a very long time between England's
securing their place in the semi-final and their next match of consequence, which then wasn't until, I think it was nine days between England beating Pakistan and then their semi-final against India, which almost like just fights against it and leaves you like, stalls it a little bit, which I guess goes back to that point about quarter finals without meaning to bang the same drum again.
Aside from the scheduling sort of part of it and the structure of the tournament that I've mentioned, it's hard to forget all the issues that were around the India-Pakistan game at the start and what that meant and the distraction that that took away from the cricket in the first week of the tournament.
It's so...
frustrating that we and there are so many reasons for it and it's such so big picture and goes far above all of us and it's such a tricky topic to
sort of not to debate but to sort of find the right answer to because there are so many different parts of it but that that issue still hangs over cricket and that is not particularly healthy for the sport i was encouraged to see we haven't got the statistics for the final yet but the um the stats came out the last couple of days for the viewership of the semi-finals particularly the england against india semi-final and that was the most streamed match ever in india i think which
Shows, I took from that, that maybe we don't have to be as reliant on that India-Pakistan fixture anymore.
Is this proof that if good cricket will, because ultimately there are always, there's money that needs to be made in these tournaments to make the world go round and to make the game work.
and India-Pakistan for so long has been such a big part of that, that fixture.
I would hope that those numbers that we got from a brilliant semi-final between England and India, a knockout match, I'd like to point that out again, banging the same drum, that proves that maybe we don't have to be as reliant on one fixture.
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