Cricket World Cup 2019

The cricket world cup started on 05/30 in England and Wales. This year the format for the tournament has changed from the 4 groups, super 8's semifinals and finals to a round robin format.

In this year's tournament, the format is round robin, where every team will play every other team and the top 4 teams will battle it out in the semis. This makes the tournament more interesting as the fight will be between all the teams and they all have an equal chance of making it through the top 4.

Here are my picks for the top 4 this year:

1. England
2. West Indies
3. India
4. Bangladesh

I feel that this world cup more than others has an opportunity to throw more surprises than the previous world cups. The round-robin format can throw up more than a few unexpected results based off which team is performing well on its given day.

Update 1: 2 of my wildcards have already failed to qualify. India has qualified for the Semi-Finals on the basis of their win against Bangladesh on 07/02, Australia is the other team that has made it to the Semis. Bangladesh and West Indies's campaigns are now over

Update 2: 3rd July 2019 - England has qualified for the top 4 and the Semi-Finals for the first time since 1992. My prediction rate has been 50% with 2 of my teams progressing and both my wildcards crashing out of the tournament.

Update 3: 11th July 2019 - India is out of the World Cup after losing to NZ by 18 runs. England has also kicked Australia out of the World Cup to qualify for the finals for the first time in 27 years. Now for the first time since 1987 we have two teams in the final who have never won the world cup before. ENGLAND v NEW ZEALAND - it will be a cracker of a contest.

Here is the Schedule for the world cup for 2019, I will populate the results as and when the match finishes

Match #	Date	Venue	Teams	Result
1	May 30, 2019	Kennington Oval, London	ENG v SA	ENG won by 104 runs
2	May 31, 2019	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	PAK v WI	WI won by 7 wickets
3	Jun 01, 2019	Sophia Gardens, Cardiff	SL v NZ	NZ won by 10 wickets
4	Jun 01, 2019	County Ground, Bristol	AFG v AUS	AUS won by 7 wickets
5	Jun 02, 2019	Kennington Oval, London	BAN v SA	BAN won by 21 runs
6	Jun 03, 2019	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	PAK v ENG	PAK won by 14 runs
7	Jun 04, 2019	Sophia Gardens, Cardiff	SL v AFG	SL won by 34 runs (DLS)
8	Jun 05, 2019	The Rose Bowl, Southampton	SA v IND	IND won by 6 wickets
9	Jun 05, 2019	Kennington Oval, London	BAN v NZ	NZ won by 2 wickets
10	Jun 06, 2019	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	AUS v WI	AUS won by 15 runs
11	Jun 07, 2019	County Ground, Bristol	PAK v SL	Match abandoned due to Rain, points shared
12	Jun 08, 2019	Sophia Gardens, Cardiff	ENG v BAN	ENG won by 106 runs
13	Jun 08, 2019	The Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton	AFG v NZ	NZ won by 7 wickets
14	Jun 09, 2019	Kennington Oval, London	IND v AUS	IND won by 36 runs
15	Jun 10, 2019	The Rose Bowl, Southampton	SA v WI	Match abandoned due to Rain, points shared
16	Jun 11, 2019	County Ground, Bristol	BAN v SL	Match abandoned due to Rain, points shared
17	Jun 12, 2019	The Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton	AUS v PAK	AUS won by 41 runs
18	Jun 13, 2019	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	IND v NZ	Match abandoned due to Rain, points shared
19	Jun 14, 2019	The Rose Bowl, Southampton	WI v ENG	ENG won by 8 wickets
20	Jun 15, 2019	Kennington Oval, London	AUS v  SL	AUS won by 87  runs
21	Jun 15, 2019	Sophia Gardens, Cardiff	AFG v SA	SA won by 9 wickets
22	Jun 16, 2019	Old Trafford, Manchester	IND v PAK	IND won by 89 runs DLS method
23	Jun 17, 2019	The Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton	WI v BAN	BAN won by 7 wickets
24	Jun 18, 2019	Old Trafford, Manchester	ENG v AFG	ENG won by 150 runs
25	Jun 19, 2019	Edgbaston, Birmingham	SA v NZ	NZ won by 4 wickets
26	Jun 20, 2019	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	AUS v BAN	AUS won by 48 runs
27	Jun 21, 2019	Headingly, Leeds	SL v ENG	SL won by 20 runs
28	Jun 22, 2019	The Rose Bowl, Southampton	IND v AFG	IND won by 11 runs
29	Jun 22, 2019	Old Trafford, Manchester	NZ v WI	NZ won by 5 runs
30	Jun23, 2019	Lord’s, London	PAK v SA	PAK won by 49 runs
31	Jun 24, 2019	The Rose Bowl, Southampton	BAN v AFG	BAN won by 50 runs
32	Jun 25, 2019	Lord’s, London	AUS v ENG	AUS won by 64 runs
33	Jun 26, 2019	Edgbaston, Birmingham	NZ v PAK	PAK won by 6 wickets
34	Jun 27, 2019	Old Trafford, Manchester	IND v WI	IND won by 125 runs
35	Jun 28, 2019	Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street	SL v SA	SA won by 9 wickets
36	Jun 29, 2019	Headingly, Leeds	AFG v PAK	PAK won by 3 wickets
37	Jun 29, 2019	Lord’s, London	AUS v NZ	AUS won by 86 runs
38	Jun 30, 2019	Edgbaston, Birmingham	ENG v IND	ENG won by 31 runs
39	Jul 01, 2019	Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street	SL v WI	SL won by 23 runs
40	Jul 02, 2019	Edgbaston, Birmingham	IND v BAN	IND won by 23 runs
41	Jul 03, 2019	Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street	ENG v NZ	ENG won by 119 runs
42	Jul 04, 2019	Headingly, Leeds	WI v AFGv	WI won by 23 runs
43	Jul 05, 2019	Lord’s, London	PAK v BAN	PAK won by 94 runs
44	Jul 06, 2019	Headingly, Leeds	SL v IND	IND won by 7 wickets
45	Jul 06, 2019	Old Trafford, Manchester	SA v AUS	SA won by 10 runs
46	Jul 09, 2019	Old Trafford, Manchester	NZ v IND	NZ won by 18 runs
47	Jul 11, 2019	Edgbaston, Birmingham	AUS v ENG	ENG won by 8 wickets
48	Jul 14, 2019	Lord’s, London	NZ v ENG