Warm-up matches: Round Up (first set of them)

The gist:

Australia, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, England all looking in good form with both bat and ball, beat their minnow counterparts with much ease.

The other games... West Indies beat Kenya, though the semi-finalists of the last edition didn't get blown away as easily as they might have. South Africa-Ireland... that was a disaster - the sheer fact that the number one team can have a tight game with an associate shows how wide open this tournament is. South Africa don't quite seem to have the aura that Australia maintained as the number one team (aura = arrogance?). Quite frankly, I don't see them winning this time. Maybe semi-finalists, but still not sure. As for New Zealand-Bangladesh, it goes to show how Bangladesh have improved in the past few years to have won that. New Zealand need to pull up their socks lest they find themselves out of the Super 8s or something disastrous because of an upset like this. Yeah, because with this format, one upset could result in elimination from the tournament for a big team, and a minnow could see themselves through to the super 8.

Current semi-final predictions:

SF1: Australia vs South Africa (this would be an awesome repeat)
SF2: West Indies vs India (can still keep hope...)