World Cup Super-8 Scheduling. There is some confusion. Please read below?

Question

West Indies finished at the top of Group D, and Ireland finished 2nd.. The first match of the Super-8, as per the core schedule should be D2 vs A1. Hence D2 should have been Ireland, and A1 should have been Australia.

Then how come that today's match (March 27th) is West Indies vs Australia and not Ireland vs Australia (since D1 is West Indies and D2 is Ireland).

Answer 1

As of April 2005 the ratings of all the teams were decided and they were put in the groups. Their rankings are given in bracket as per April 2005.

Group A St Kitts & Nevis
Aus (1)
SA (5)
Scotland (12)
Hollland (16)

Group B Trinidad & Tobago
SL (2)
India (8)
Bangladesh (11)
Bermuda (15)

Group C St. Lucia
NZ (3)
England (7)
Kenya (10)
Canada (14)

Group D Jamaica
Pakistan (4)
WI (6)
Zimbabwe (9)
Ire (13)

Now here only it was decided beforehand that top 2 teams should qualify for super 8.

So Aus was A1,SA was A2......whoever tops the group.

Similarly
SLwas B1,IND was B2......whoever tops the group.
NZ was C1,Eng was C2......whoever tops the group.
Pak was D1,WI was D2......whoever tops the group.

Now whichever team replaces them wil have same notation.

Thus Bangladesh became B2....
And Ireland became D1......

Put these everywhere and picture wil be clear. Thats the rule mentioned.

Answer 2

I am also quite surprised as to how Australia and West Indies are playing the first game. According to schedule first game of Super 8 was between A1 and D2. Since Australia is A1 and Ireland is D2, the first match should have been between them.

Answer 3

The schedule is right. Please see the detailed schedule of Super 8 matches from the link below including venues etc

http://www.cricket.indhp.net/schedule.asp

Answer 4

whatever source u used to get the info was wrong
check the right one dude