Cricket World Cup VIII

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Cricket Schiavonia have been preparing their best pitches (aka scorinator) across the Forty-Six Islands in preparation for a domestic cricket league. Then they thought, 'hey, why not invite teams from around the world to our country?'

So that's what they decided to do. After seeing various levels of success with cricket tournaments in the past, they set their sights at being one of the minority of Cricket World Cups that have actually been completed. By their reckoning, there have been about seven attempts before, so they decided on naming this competition Cricket World Cup VIII.

General Info

The format is simple. Nations signed up, and groups randomly drawn (as no seeding exists in NSCricket). No need to submit players with different skill levels or anything like that as in cups gone by. Of course, without any official rankings, RPing will help, what with the bonus from it being the only seperating factor between the quality of the teams.

At present, there is just this One Day International (games of 50 overs maximum per side) tournament planned by Cricket Schiavonia. Depending on the popularity of this tournament, it may encourage the creation of a new NationStates Cricket Council (NSCC) to replace the folded InterNationStates Cricket Council (INSCC), in which teams would play at first only ODIs and later also Test Matches (two innings of unlimited overs lasting five days maximum) and Twenty20 (games of 20 overs maximum per side).

Qualifier

The Mushroom Kingship   138 all out (34 overs)
Krytenia                139/4       (31 overs)

Group 1

Nation         G   W   L   T   P   NRR
Vilita         2   2   0   0   8  2.44
Quakmybush     2   1   0   1   6  0.16
Bazalonia      2   1   1   0   4 -0.12
Patrico        2   1   1   0   4 -0.23
Milchama       2   0   1   1   2 -0.77
Del Riso       2   0   2   0   0 -1.43

Matchday 1

at KJCG, Kingsbury
Patrico                184/4 (50 overs)
Bazalonia              185/2 (27.5 overs)
Bazalonia win by 8 wickets

at Hyde Park, Chea
Quakmybush             202/7 (50 overs)
Milchama               202/9 (50 overs)
Match tied

at Hillshade, Welkay
Del Riso               168/5 (50 overs)
Vilita                 170/2 (28.3 overs)
Vilita win by 8 wickets

Matchday 2

at Hocke Park, Threlo
Patrico         241/4        (50 overs)
Milchama        164 all out  (45.1 overs)
Patrico win by 77 runs

at The Beach, Mirkwell
Quakmybush      287/5        (50 overs)
Del Riso        271/3        (50 overs)
Quakmybush win by 16 runs

at Gatenby Park, Sedgefield
Vilita          293/8        (50 overs)
Bazalonia       177/5        (50 overs)
Vilita win by 116 runs

Matchday 3

Bazalonia v Milchama (The Launch Pad, Spacewill)
Quakmybush v Vilita (Hyde Park, Chea)
Patrico v Del Riso (Hocke Park, Threlo)

Matchday 4

Patrico v Vilita (The Launch Pad, Spacewill)
Bazalonia v Quakmybush (KJCG, Kingsbury)
Milchama v Del Riso (Backstreets, Melston)

Matchday 5

Patrico v Quakmybush (The Beach, Mirkwell)
Bazalonia v Del Riso (The Launch Pad, Spacewill)
Milchama v Vilita (Hyde Park, Chea)

Group 2

Nation         G   W   L   T   P   NRR
Schiavonia     1   1   0   0   4  7.41
Qutar          1   1   0   0   4  4.08
Anastasiania   1   1   0   0   4  1.13
Krytenia       1   0   1   0   0 -1.13
Yafor 2        1   0   1   0   0 -4.08
Myppl          1   0   1   0   0 -7.41

Matchday 1

at Backstreets, Melston
Krytenia               200/1 (50 overs)
Anastasiania           201/4 (39.1 overs)
Anastasiania win by 6 wickets

at Gatenby Park, Sedgefield
The Islands of Qutar   335/6 (50 overs)
Yafor 2                131/6 (50 overs)
The Islands of Qutar win by 204 runs

at The Launch Pad, Spacewill
Myppl                  132/6 (50 overs)
Schiavonia             134/1 (13.2 overs)
Schiavonia win by 9 wickets

Matchday 2

Krytenia v The Islands of Qutar (Backstreets, Melston)
Yafor 2 v Schiavonia (KJCG, Kingsbury)
Anastasiania v Myppl (Hillshade, Welkay)

Matchday 3

Anastasiania v The Islands of Qutar (Gatenby Park, Sedgefield)
Yafor 2 v Myppl (The Beach, Mirkwell)
Krytenia v Schiavonia (Hillshade, Welkay)

Matchday 4

Krytenia v Myppl (The Beach, Mirkwell)
Anastasiania v Yafor 2 (Hyde Park, Chea)
The Islands of Qutar v Schiavonia (Hocke Park, Threlo)

Matchday 5

Krytenia v Yafor 2 (Hocke Park, Threlo)
Anastasiania v Schiavonia (Backstreets, Melston)
The Islands of Qutar v Myppl (Hillshade, Welkay)

Super Six

The top three from each group will then go onto the "Super Six", a second group stage where results against other qualifiers from the previous group count towards the standings.

Matchday 6

Winner 1 v Second 2 (KJCG, Kingsbury)
Second 1 v Winner 2 (Gatenby Park, Sedgefield)
Third 1 v Third 2 (Backstreets, Melston)

Matchday 7

Winner 1 v Third 2 (Hocke Park, Threlo)
Winner 2 v Third 1 (Hillshade, Welkay)
Second 1 v Second 2 (Gatenby Park, Sedgfield)

Matchday 8

Winner 1 v Winner 2 (KJCG, Kingsbury)
Second 1 v Third 2 (The Launch Pad, Spacewill)
Second 2 v Third 1 (Hyde Park, Chea)

Semi-Finals

The top four ranked teams following the Super Six qualify for the semi-finals, single ODI elimination.

SS1 v SS4 (KJCG, Kingsbury)
SS2 v SS3 (Gatenby Park, Sedgefield)

Final

The two semi-final winners pair off and decide the Cricket World Cup Champion.

Winner SF1 v Winner SF2 (King Francesco Stadium, Kingsbury)

Venues

King Francesco Stadium, Kingsbury
Capacity - 63,000

The King Francesco Stadium is the centre of the Schiavone sports scene. What with it being the national stadium and what have you. It isn't usually home to cricket, but the ground staff have had time to prepare a special pitch that will be brought into the centre of the stadium for the final.

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King James Cricket Ground, Kingsbury
Capacity - 37,750

The home of Schiavone Cricket, the KJCG is on Kingsbury Rock, and so is in an ideal location for either a peaceful day's cricket with a lovely view, or a party to celebrate the game. Whatever floats your boat.

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Gatenby Park, Sedgefield
Capacity - 30,400

Sedgefield is in the sports-mad South East of Schiavonia and has one of the most diverse communities in the country. So any sport is well catered for here. It's usually more sunny than in this picture, though.

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Hocke Park, Threlo
Capacity - 22,130

Threlo is the centre of Schiavonia's not-that-big celtic community. This is their cricket ground, not far from their other general purpose sports stadium Shamrock Park.

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Backstreets, Melston
Capacity - 18,900

Backstreets started out exactly how it sounds - as a patch of grass amongst Melston's backstreets. As the sport's popularity has grown, so has the ground. Well, as far as it can. There's houses all around, and windows nearby are regularly broken.

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The Launch Pad, Spacewill
Capacity - 27,908

In Spacewill, Schiavonia's little known fourth biggest city, cricket is the major sport. So The Launch Pad is an integral part of life in this area of the country. This place is cared for deeply, despite it's slightly ramshackle appearance.

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Hillshade, Welkay
Capacity - 21,200

Welkay is famous for both it's lake to the south, where football is the main sport, and the hills to north, where it isn't. Cricket is just one of a number of sports to prevail here, although the costs of flattening a bit of land to build this ground on were pretty high be Schiavone standards.

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The Beach, Mirkwell
Capacity - 10,000

Well, what an original name this place has. It's by the beach, so what do the call it? The Beach. Needless to say, Mirkwell isn't Schiavonia's intellectual capital.

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Hyde Park, Chea
Capacity - 22,100

Hyde Park in Chea is right next to the football ground, Green Park, home of Chea Greens. It is one of Schiavonia's oldest cricket grounds. Which you can tell just by going there.

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External Links

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