Flashpoint: Points Situation in Group B

02 March, 2011

A brilliant performance by Irish Kevin O'Brien, who scored the fastest world cup century off just 50 balls, lead Ireland to an astonishing victory over England to cause first major upset in world cup at Bangalore.

This win and the earlier tie between India and England, means that Group B is now open to all sorts of interesting permutations. To add icing to the cake Netherlands have also shown enough guts to get scores closer to 300 on their day and Bangladesh can surprise any team on their home conditions. The current situation with the points in Group B is as under:

*Teams*	P	W	L	NR	T	Points	NRR
India	2	1	0	0	1	3	+0.87
England	3	1	1	0	1	3	+0.04
West Indies	2	1	1	0	0	2	+1.88
South Africa	1	1	0	0	0	2	+0.77
Ireland	2	1	1	0	0	2	-0.21
Bangladesh	2	1	1	0	0	2	-0.60
Netherlands	2	0	2	0	0	0	-2.28

Now let's have a look at the matches to follow in Group B:

03 March: Netherlands vs South Africa
04 March: Bangladesh vs West Indies
06 March: England vs South Africa
06 March: India vs Ireland
09 March: India vs Netherlands
11 March: West Indies vs Ireland
11 March: Bangladesh vs England
12 March: India vs South Africa
14 March: Bangladesh vs Netherlands
15 March: South Africa vs Ireland
17 March: England vs West Indies
18 March: Ireland vs Netherlands
19 March: Bangladesh vs South Africa
20 March: India vs West Indies

The top 4 teams will qualify for the quarter finals and we could very well be in for some surprises in this group.