Icc World Cup 2011 Semi-Final Prediction: India Vs Pakistan

Pakistan are set to meet West Indies in the first quarter-final of Icc World Cup 2011 game at Mirpur, on Wednesday, March 23, 2011.

This will be followed on March 24, by the game in the middle of India and Australia, at Ahmedabad. The third quarter-final will be contested by New Zealand and South Africa at Mirpur on March 25, while Sri Lanka will host England in the fourth, at Colombo, on March 26.

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The teams winning the third and fourth quarter-finals will meet at Colombo, in the first semi-final, due to be held on Wednesday, March 29. The other semi-final, scheduled to be held at Mohali, on March 30, will highlight the winners of the first two quarter-finals.

Before this world cup began, teams like England who were fatigued after the tour of Australia found fault with the continued program of the world cup as planned.

The Icc defended its scheduling which it said was made to ensure that teams like Pakistan and India did not exit the tournament early, an ostensible guess for the failure of the 2007 event held in the West Indies. To this end, many minnow teams like Holland, Ireland, Canada and Kenya had been included.

Many also expressed doubts about the hereafter of the 50 over game. The addition popularity of T20, following the damp squib that the 2007 Odi World Cup proved to be, only served to increase the conviction among followers of the game that Odis were living on borrowed time. Fans needed instant gratification of the T20 kind, and not the continued agony of the 50-over game.

The current world cup has turned that conviction on its head. After 42 of 49 games have been played, fans' appetites have been whetted. England's loss to Ireland, their tied game against India, their defeat of South Africa, India's loss to South Africa, Pakistan's defeat of Sri Lanka and Australia, and their loss to New Zealand have all been thrillers that have served to make this world cup an event to remember and arguably the most intelligent ever.

Fans are finding forward to the quarter-finals, and this agreeing to me, is what they can expect to see, beyond, in the semi-finals. Here are my predictions about how the quarter-finals will play out:

Qf # 1: Pakistan Vs West Indies: Pakistan to win

Qf # 2: India Vs Australia: India to win

Qf # 3: South Africa Vs New Zealand: South Africa to win

Qf # 4: Sri Lanka Vs England: Sri Lanka to win

The first semi-final on March 29, at Colombo, will highlight a game in the middle of hosts Sri Lanka and South Africa.

The second, on March 30, at Mohali will be arguably the biggest match of the tournament, featuring India versus Pakistan.

Icc World Cup 2011 Semi-Final Prediction: India Vs Pakistan

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