Monday, March 26, 2007

Hmmm....

When the WC schedule came, there were widespread speculations that the schedule is rigged, given the dates for Super 8 matches and how the 1st and 2nd places in various pools will fall out.

Then, Pakistan got eliminated. At this point, the popular opinion was India will not be eliminated given the impact it will have on the economics of WC, if that should happen.

And then India got eliminated. So what now?

ICC rigged it to eliminate India just to dis-prove the previous 2 (conspiracy) theories. Somehow, we believe in coincidences more than in randomness.

Pakistan getting eliminated was randomness. India getting eliminated was more than a coincidence.

Again, that's my theory and I'm sticking to it.