How are teams shaping up for the WC?

[zen]

12 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

In ICC world tournaments involving multiple nations across formats India has the highest number of trophies.

 

India 8

Australia 7

Others are at best 4 or 5.

Ind 8? 

[vvvslaxman]

8 minutes ago, zen said:

Ind 8? 

4 or 5 nations in  a tournament.  India has won 8. If we are talking about all the elite nations we have won 6.

Benson & Hedges, World cup 2, World T20 1, CT 2 (including a shared one)

 

Australia 7

India 6

Windies 5

Pakistan 4 

Srilanka 2

Others 1 each

[vvvslaxman]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket/article-6783603/David-Willey-questions-decision-fast-track-Jofra-Archer-Englands-one-day-series-squad.html

 

United nations keep getting players from other countries. So they are only getting stronger. Rightnow on paper they should trample every opposition. Let us see how it pans out. 

[zen]

23 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

4 or 5 nations in  a tournament.  India has won 8. If we are talking about all the elite nations we have won 6.

Benson & Hedges, World cup 2, World T20 1, CT 2 (including a shared one)

 

Australia 7

India 6

Windies 5

Pakistan 4 

Srilanka 2

Others 1 each

Yeah, I counted Ind's talley as 6 so far -> 2 in 80s, 2 in 00s, and 2 in 10s 

[bowl_out]

4 hours ago, zen said:

I would not mind a brand new WC winner this time 

England 

[zen]

1 minute ago, bowl_out said:

England 

trend favors home teams this decade 

[Nikhil_cric]

India - too many overaged players and batting looks very suspect.

England - Batting strong as ever. Bowling is toothless apart from wood and Rashid. Moeen crap with both bat and ball recently. 

Australia - I'd like to see what they can do at full strength. An attack of Cummins, Starc, Richardson, zampa is not bad at all . If Smith and Warner are as good as they were, I have a familiar suspicion that they will peak at the CWC.

 

SA - Holes in both batting and bowling. Not a good unit. May not make semis.

 

NZ - Didn't look good while getting thumped by India. Bowling heavily reliant on Boult. SF exit at best. 

 

PAK - Decent outfit but not sure they can get the job done. Very inconsistent in both batting and bowling except the performance of Babar. 

 

Windies - Have the batting firepower to match the best and some damn fine fast bowlers to choose from and a great leader in Holder.  Have not shown the pedigree to consistently win games in a row which is the biggest drawback of the team. On their day though, they can be a nightmare for any team. Might make SF for first time in 23 years. Dangerous outfit that can match England for batting firepower and OZ/SA/India etc for pace . Just lack good spinners. 

 

SL/BD/AFG - will get thrashed  

 

 

 

[Sonix768]

India and England have been too good not to qualify for Semis. They might one or two league games but can't see them not making semis. They have players who can single handedly can take games away from opposition. 

 

Other consistent team right now is NZ. They have all bases covered though they havent been dominant in any departments. With the quality of players and their general A game in WCs, they could win 5,6 games and will qualify for semis.

 

The final Semis spot will be contested by Sa/Aus/Pak, with Aus having huge edge with their return of premier batsmen and excellent bowling unit. SA and Pak might not look settled in any department but could spring up a few wins together and try to get in the semis.

 

SL/WI/Bang/Afg Might win one or two odd games but they are too inconsistent and/or has one very weak department to be realistically qualify for semis.

[zen]

• There is no easy way to get in to SF. Like beat SA (which can crack under pressure), Pak, BD and AFG.  Have to play all the teams and aim to win at least 7 of the 9 games 
• No need to say, batting takes lead in batting friendly conditions. Bowling in bowling friendly. Conditions are expected to be batting friendly in Eng  

 

PS In fact, we are playing SA in our first game so it is unlikely to be under that much pressure relatively speaking. Then we take on Aus, which will be confident of taking Ind won after this series, and then NZ, which does well against us in WCs in SENA  

Edited March 8, 2019 by zen

[Zero_Unit]

On 3/7/2019 at 8:08 AM, Ankit_sharma03 said:

England is shaping really well 

Aus team - we have to see how they play as unit once smith n warner are back n whats their form

WI- can spring in a surprise

Sa- looks pathetic 

 

You forgot to add BD beside SA's description

[zen]

Eng, Aus, WI and SA players are clicking in various tourneys .... NZ and Ind appear relatively sore 

[Zero_Unit]

7 hours ago, zen said:

Eng, Aus, WI and SA players are clicking in various tourneys .... NZ and Ind appear relatively sore 

And you have the dilusional pak fan who think they have a genuine shot at the cup cause some of their players scored against aus

[prasen82]

On 3/8/2019 at 1:13 PM, Sonix768 said:

India and England have been too good not to qualify for Semis. They might one or two league games but can't see them not making semis. They have players who can single handedly can take games away from opposition. 

 

Other consistent team right now is NZ. They have all bases covered though they havent been dominant in any departments. With the quality of players and their general A game in WCs, they could win 5,6 games and will qualify for semis.

 

The final Semis spot will be contested by Sa/Aus/Pak, with Aus having huge edge with their return of premier batsmen and excellent bowling unit. SA and Pak might not look settled in any department but could spring up a few wins together and try to get in the semis.

 

SL/WI/Bang/Afg Might win one or two odd games but they are too inconsistent and/or has one very weak department to be realistically qualify for semis.

How things have changed.. Australia and England look like sure shots with nz,windies,india, pak fighting for remaining 2.

[R!TTER]

Only Aus looks like a confirmed berth for SF, even England isn't guaranteed a SF spot yet. Of course WC being in England would give the hosts a huge boost, so Aus/Eng/Ind in that order with the last spot being fought over by chokers/fixers/chuckers etc.