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The tournament followed the format introduced in the 1999 ICC Cricket World Cup with the teams divided into 2 groups, and the top three in each group qualifying for the Super Sixes stage.

The 1999 Cricket World Cup format was retained, where in the first round, the participating countries were divided into two groups of seven teams.

Indeed, membership of a Test Cricket side is often seen as being more prestigious for players, both due to the more challenging nature of the format and the higher turnover rate of one day players.

The 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup was the ninth edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup tournament that took place in the West Indies from 13 March to 28 April 2007, using the sport's One Day International format.

The Cricket World Cup is played in this format.

Also in 2009 Black Cat Cricket launched a T20 format bat, the Joker.

England has not shown a liking for the one day format ; it has always preferred Test Cricket.

His career-best bowling figures in in the format were 5 wickets for 20 runs against England at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, in October 2000.

The United States professional Pro Cricket league used a format based on Twenty20, with two other changes:

There is a great deal of variation in game format although the Laws of Cricket are always observed.

Examples with pure round-robin scheduling include the FIFA World Cup, UEFA European Football Championship and UEFA Cup ( 2004 – 2005 ) in football, Super Rugby ( rugby union ) in the Southern Hemisphere during its past incarnations as Super 12 and Super 14 ( but not in the current 15-team format ), the Cricket World Cup, Indian Premier League Twenty-20 Cricket and many American Football college conferences, such as the Pacific-10.

After the 2009 competition the English Cricket Board reorganised it, changing the format from 50 to 40 overs.

June 2012 in World Cricket League team gained the top spot in the shortest format of the game with amazing reformations in the field.

The Toronto Blue Jays are the only team to have never played in the ALDS and are the last team to win the World Series under the old 4 division format.

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The divisional winners met in a best-of-5 series to advance to the World Series, in a " 2 – 3 " format, first two games were played at the home of the team who did not have home field advantage.

The modern events in which athletes compete in at the World Cup and Olympics are ( distances presented in Female / Male format ): 1 km Sprint, 2X1 km Team Sprint, 10 km / 15 km Individual Start, 15 km / 30 km Pursuit, 30 km / 50 km Mass Start, and 4x5 km / 4x10 km Relay.

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A new format was used for the 1999 and 2003 World Cups.

The last format used in the 2007 World Cup, features 16 teams allocated into four groups of four.

The current format, approved by ICC to be used in 2011 World Cup, features 14 teams allocated.

From 1996 to 2009, the IFF used a World Floorball Championship format where the last team in the A-Division was relegated to the B-Division, while the top team in the B-Division was promoted to the A-Division.

The current format of the tournament involves 32 teams competing for the title at venues within the host nation ( s ) over a period of about a month ; this phase is often called the World Cup Finals.

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The ensuing criticism resulted in Brush leading an effort to formalize the rules and format of the World Series.

This format is most common in team sports, as with the FIFA ( football ) World Cup or the ICC ( cricket ) World Cup.

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In competition-based programs such as Big Brother and Survivor, and other special living environment shows like The Real World, the producers design the format of the show and control the day-to-day activities and the environment, creating a completely fabricated world in which the competition plays out.

Sources say that Smith was embittered over the reduction in time allowed for his commentaries and hence resigned after he criticized the revamped World News Tonight format as a " Punch and Judy show.

The short format is now the standard for international competition, such as the Olympics and World Equestrian Games.

The FIA championships, including the Karting World Championship, take place in this format.

In 1997, King World Productions bought the worldwide format rights to Hollywood Squares from MGM, successor-in-interest to the series ' previous production companies Orion and Filmways.

This was the last of the two World Cup tournaments that used a straight knockout format.

Unlike the 1976 – 79 Montreal Canadiens, who needed to win three series in the 1976 and 1977 playoffs under the playoff format in place at that time, the Islanders had to win four series in each of their Stanley Cup seasons.

The format for the Stanley Cup Final changed in 1922, with the creation of the Western Canada Hockey League ( WCHL ).

A website known as freestanley. com ( since closed ) was launched, asking fans to write to the Cup trustees and urge them to return to the original Challenge Cup format.

Under the original playoff format, it was possible, though thoroughly unlikely, that the runner-up would not qualify for Europe ; the following year, the format was changed so that the second-place team was assured of no worse than a UEFA Cup berth.

In 2007 and 2008, the top eight teams advanced to the playoffs ; in what was intended to be the final season of the Air New Zealand Cup format in 2009, the Shaughnessy format was used, with the top four advancing to the finals.

The New Zealand Rugby Union ( NZRU ) ultimately decided to stay with the previous format for the rebranded 2010 ITM Cup, with the same four-team playoff as in 2009.

While the format means that it is possible for two teams in the same division to play for the Grey Cup, so far only one crossover team has won the divisional semifinal game.

In 2008, The Great Northwest Athletic Conference reinstated football, and Central Washington along with Western Washington rejoined the conference, so the previous format of the Battle in Seattle being played at CenturyLink Field and the Cascade Cup was contested in Ellensburg.

The format was identical to the original European Champions ' Cup with 32 teams contesting four knock-out rounds prior to the showpiece final, with the tournament usually running from September to May each year.

One proposal was for a tournament based upon the format of the Champions ' Cup, but with national cup winners rather than champions taking part, which could run alongside that competition.

In the last 10 years, following restructuring of European football, and the introduction of the restructured format of the UEFA Champions League, the League Cup was threatened with losing its UEFA Cup berth for its winners.

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