Will India be Lucky inspite of two defeats?

Question

They don't deserve to advance to next round the way they played.
However there are instances of teams in brink of elimination,with some luck, regroup themselves, advance further and ultimately win he cup like Australia in 1999 and Pakistan in 1992.
Will such luck favour India to advance to next round?
Improbable defeat of Bangladesh or any other reason?

Indians made things difficult for themselves by playing poorly against Bangladesh.One bad defeat has made things difficult for India to recover in one last chance against Srilanka.where stakes were too high.

Answer 1

Goodbye see you in 2011.

Answer 2

Last hope of entry into Super 8 by India team has been shattered with the win Bangladesh registered against Bermuda.

Answer 3

Why rely on luck. Winners may get luck but they dont rely on it. After being defeated comprehensively by Bangladesh the Indian team should accept its inadequacy. It is very difficult for Bermuda to defeat Bangladesh.

Answer 4

Simple.
Send Sharad Pawar to West Indies to do "Match Fixing" in the
Bangladesh v/s Bermuda match so that Bermuda wins.

Answer 5

You can expect luck inspite of your doing badly.Team India,s world cup campaign is almost over. THEY shouldthink of future now.Sachin, sehwag,and dravid , kumble should be reserved for Tests only and a new youthful team for onedays should be built.

Answer 6

SORRY mate i think india are pretty much done for, in 4 years time you can have another crack at it. and to be honest india don't deserve to be in the super 8's the way they have played.

Answer 7

i feel that those who rely on luck are weak coz they could not put the effort needed.if bangla loses its good but its a shame to india that they took help of an other team to get into super8

Answer 8

it's just a 0.01%, they have to advance ot the next stage!! and anyway, it would be no use at all!!! they don't at all deserve it!! the teams which play good only needs to advance!! bangladesh played good, so let they advance and try their luck!!! so....no!!

Answer 9

Early exit: India Inc all set to lose Rs 163-croreAdd to Clippings
SAMIDHA SHARMA & RATNA BHUSHAN

TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 2007 12:00:51 AM]
NEW DELHI: The Indian team’s loss to Sri Lanka at Trinidad Friday night, virtually throwing men-in-blue out of the reckoning for the second-stage in the ongoing ICC World Cup, has upset many a marketer’s neatly laid out business plans, big time. India’s dismal showing in the Caribbeans, a source of much heartburn and anxiety amongst advertisers has clearly turned into panic now. Marketing and media plans are being furiously reworked to salvage big spends around the World Cup, and long faces abound across some of corporate India’s marquee names - Pepsi, LG, Reebok, Visa, Nokia, Videocon, Hero Honda, Hutch, Samsung et al.

According to Mindshare, a media buying agency, India Inc’s losses would tot upto over Rs 163-crore. And this just on the Rs 350-400-crore advertising monies that they had committed with the official broadcaster, Sony Entertainment Television (SET). Mindshare’s estimates are based on the premise that viewership for the rest of the World Cup matches, sans India, will drop as much as 50%. “Advertisers are now talking about the loss in profits. We are looking to strike an amicable resolution with Sony on this issue,” says Manish Porwal, managing director, Starcom India (West & South), another big media buying firm.

With majority of viewers gone, and a sense of being let down amongst the few die-hard game fans who may still continue to follow the goings on, clearly this wasn’t a scenario anyone provisioned for. India’s early exit is bad news for all four ICC’s global sponsors - Pepsi, Hutch, Hero Honda and LG -all with big India businesses, and still bigger plans around the World Cup cricket in a cricket crazy country. Cola major, PepsiCo, one of World Cup’s four global sponsors, has decided to pull out its gung-ho on India ‘Ladega To Jeetega’ ad campaign. “The campaign has lost its relevance. We are taking it off and will replace it with some other Pepsi campaign,” said Rohit Ohri, managing partner, JWT, Pepsi’s ad agency. In fact, Pepsi had hinged its sales strategy for the coming summer season around World Cup Cricket and therefore tailored a lot of its forthcoming advertising around India’s progression at the tournament, all of which will now have to be replaced with product-centric, generic ads.

Reebok India, another big advertiser on SET for the World Cup, on the other hand has decided to totally shift its focus away from cricket, for now. “Viewership could come down drastically. Things could bounce back with the Indian team beginning to perform once again (after the World Cup), but we will focus more on fashion-related advertising for now,” said Subhinder Singh Prem, MD, Reebok India.

Answer 10

NO WAY.....Bermuda can t beat Bangladesh.....its like saying a 5 year old kid should beat a professional.