**help please re worldcup cricket**, page-8

re: **help please re worldcup cricket**cerhob This is the official word from the World Cup website:

The plight of New Zealand and Sri Lanka has been borne out by Sri Lanka's actions in appealing a ruling on the method to decide who would be the third team to qualify.

If Sri Lanka beat South Africa in a day/night match which will finish after New Zealand's game with Canada has been completed, the matter will not be in issue as Kenya, Sri Lanka and New Zealand would qualify.

However, should South Africa beat Sri Lanka, the issue would come down to run rate between Sri Lanka and New Zealand for the third place as Kenya and South Africa would have qualified.

It is the run rate factor that Sri Lanka has queried, and then had its call for an appeal on the issue declined. It clearly believes that the two-team principle should apply and in that instance Sri Lanka would qualify for having beaten New Zealand.

However, it has been ruled that it cannot apply because if South Africa beat Sri Lanka, four teams would have been on 16 points and the decision has to be made on that basis.



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