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Therefore, with each team having 6 'Super-8' games theyve obviously got disproportionate numbers of games at certain venues. Taking the seedings & going from the confusing paragraph from that link above, this should work out like this (assuming theres no 1st round upsets, & remember according to that as long as the seeds qualify it doesnt matter whether they win the group or not....bizarre  ):
A1 - Australia - Antigua x 3, Grenada x 2, Barbados x1
A2 - South Africa - Grenada x 2, Barbados x 1, Guyana x 3
B1 - Sri Lanka - Antigua x 1, Grenada x 3, Guyana x 2
B2 - India - Antigua x 2, Barbados x 3, Guyana x 1
C1 - New Zealand - Antigua x 2, Grenada x 3, Guyana x 1
C2 - England - Antigua x 2, Barbados x 3, Guyana x 1
D1 - Pakistan - Grenada x 1, Barbados x 2, Guyana x 3
D2 - West Indies - Antigua x 2, Grenada x 1, Barbados x 2, Guyana x 1
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You have answered your own question here Swoop.
Six super eight games plus the game against the other qualifier from your group.
It also sort of makes sense for the Qualifying group games not affecting the seedings in so much as we all know which 8 teams are going to qualify so the organisers are effectively saying the qualifying group game is a super eight game. The advantage for the eight qualifying teams is they can make all their travel/hotel arrangements in advance knowing they will be seeded a1/a2 etc. Just looking at the post I copied shows A1 Australia having to travel at least twice (if not more) during the super 8's so at least they can prepare now in advance.
If South Africa did beat Australia and the seedings were reversed it would entail a totally different schedule. From the little I have read so far travelling between the islands can be problamatic.