{"id":486,"date":"2026-07-17T12:34:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petermc.net\/blog\/?p=486"},"modified":"2026-07-17T12:34:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:34:37","slug":"improving-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petermc.net\/blog\/2026\/07\/17\/improving-the-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do we get the ICC to see the sense of including preliminary finals in the World Cup (and so moving to a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/McIntyre_system\">McIntyre final four<\/a> system? All World Cups to date have had two knockout semi-finals, with the winners facing each other in the final. It&#8217;s well-known the McIntyre final four system is fairer, and as a bonus, you get one more final game, so more money! Dear greedy ICC, surely the money argument is the one to win you over.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not even as though cricket is unfamiliar with the practice. The Big Bash league uses this system, albeit with adding their own silly names for the various games.<\/p>\n<p>I am very willing to be paid an exorbitant amount of money as a consulting fee, and even flown first class to an ICC meeting to explain to those in charge the superiority of the McIntyre system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2027_Cricket_World_Cup\">Wikipedia<\/a> has the format for the 2027 World Cup, which includes the dumb version of the final four. It&#8217;s not too late to change it &#8211; in fact they changed from a super six to a super seven just two days ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do we get the ICC to see the sense of including preliminary finals in the World Cup (and so moving to a McIntyre final four system? All World Cups to date have had two knockout semi-finals, with the winners &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/petermc.net\/blog\/2026\/07\/17\/improving-the-world-cup\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cricket"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V6a7-7Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petermc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petermc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petermc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petermc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petermc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/petermc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/petermc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petermc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petermc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petermc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}