The people eagerly wait for long four years to get the opportunity of enjoying the World Cup. Each supporter has his own team or teams of choice. About 1500 million people of South Asia are very keen to watch the event.

Of course, in a game there must be a loser, but if it is India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka or Bangladesh the remaining matches become dull to their supporters. It happens that the supporters do not watch the remaining matches, even on TV .On the other hand the sponsors, advertising firms and the media are left in complete disarray.

The two superpowers of cricket--India and Pakistan-- lost to two emerging powers-- Bangladesh and Ireland respectively in the first round. It is a good sign of competition. Many countries will now be interested in cricket. But due to the disastrous departures of the two cricket giants, the supporters of the two countries have, no doubt, become very frustrated.

In order to make the World Cup interesting, exciting and fascinating the following suggestions may be considered by the ICC:

The present system of grouping for the first round may be continued.

After the first round, there may be scope of elevating two more teams to the second round.

Within those losing 8 teams there may be knock-out play between the first and the last team, second and the second last team and so on. Within the 4 winning teams, two teams can be placed in the second round after knock-out play among themselves. Two or three matches may be held in a day in order to minimise the length of the tournament.

The two winning teams will play with the earlier elevated 8 teams in the second round (which may be termed super-ten).

This will encourage the host countries, sponsors, media and the advertising firms and make the future tournaments more exciting.