Cricket's world order tipped for World Cup shake-up

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Cricket large Mark Taylor has tipped a shake-up of the planetary pecking bid aft aboriginal upsets successful the T20 World Cup.

After mediocre showings astatine past year's T20 World Cup successful the UAE, some the West Indies and Sri Lanka were forced to play successful the archetypal circular of the tourney against qualifiers successful Hobart and Geelong respectively.

Both sides suffered daze losses successful their archetypal matches, which meant they had to win some of their last 2 matches to progress.

Sri Lanka mislaid to Namibia successful Geelong past Sunday, earlier bouncing backmost to smash the UAE connected Tuesday and past bushed the Netherlands, to that constituent undefeated, by 16 runs connected Thursday.

The Windies were besides thumped by Scotland successful their archetypal match, and then survived a chaotic run-out and a low-order complaint to sound implicit Zimbabwe successful their second. They volition look Ireland Friday afternoon.

With each teams successful Group B one-and-one, some winners of Friday afternoon's matches - Scotland v Zimbabwe the different clash - will enactment themselves into the Super 12 stage.

Taylor said the summation of T20 competitions astir the satellite has boosted the accomplishment level of players from accepted 'minnow' nations.

He said the upsets besides highlighted the value of remaining successful the apical 8 successful the rankings.

"A truly breathtaking happening is there's nary uncertainty those sides are getting amended astatine the shorter signifier of the game, and I deliberation it's due to the fact that they're astir apt conscionable focusing connected it and they're playing much games truthful they're getting amended astatine it," Taylor told Wide World of Sports.

"When you shorten immoderate game, the show connected the time evidently is important but you tin easy get it incorrect successful a 3 hr play and truthful suffer a game.

"There's little accidental successful a T20 World Cup of immoderate crippled going to plan, due to the fact that it conscionable takes 1 idiosyncratic and terrific show from 1 idiosyncratic to truly alteration the game."

Taylor said helium would've liked to person seen Australia triumph 1 of their warm-up matches - successful either the bid against England oregon the dedicated warm-up clash against India - but inactive rated the squad a beardown accidental to support their rubric from past year.

Stream each Australian men's T20 World Cup lucifer positive selected different matches, including the finals, unrecorded and escaped connected 9Now.

"We've got prime players - there's nary uncertainty we're a chance," helium said.

"I would person liked to person seen Australia astatine slightest triumph 1 of our past fewer games, adjacent though they didn't play badly. Even against India we looked similar we were determination and past each of a abrupt Virat Kohli takes a terrific drawback connected the bound and we we suffer 4 wickets successful 4 balls.

"I deliberation winning, similar anything, becomes a habit. So it would person been bully to triumph that.

"But the bully quality is Finch recovered immoderate form. I deliberation helium and Davey Warner astatine the apical of the bid are a formidable combination, and if our bowlers tin instrumentality aboriginal wickets, I deliberation we tin triumph it."

Australia commencement their T20 World Cup defence against New Zealand successful beforehand of a sold-out SCG assemblage connected Saturday night.

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