51.   Group Two winner India will now meet Thailand in the next round.

52.   Group winners and the best runner-up qualify automatically, with the eight other runners-up forced into a playoff.

53.   However, the four pairs will play the semifinals that features clashes between the group winners and runner-ups.

54.   His son Paolo, the team captain, agreed it was important to qualify as group winner and avoid a confrontation with Brazil, the defending champion.

55.   In a battle of group winners, South Africa and Pakistan will meet in a Super Six clash at Trent Bridge on Saturday.

56.   In Europe, for instance, there would be nine qualifying groups, from which the group winner and the five best second-placed teams would qualify.

57.   Instead, the nine group winners plus the best second-placed team will automatically qualify.

58.   It was reported earlier that group winners automatically reached the semifinals.

59.   Italy, England, Scotland and Austria are its rivals for that and two of those almost certainly will be group winners anyway.

60.   Juventus already had qualified as group winner.