Can India cricketers win World Cup for a billion fans?

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India’s chances of winning the 2023 World Cup

Yes, of course, they can, is the solution.

They have the best team in the world, play at home, and have a stellar new record, including winning the Asia Cup against five of the top nine one-day teams.

However, we must also recognize that some other groups, including Australia, England, Pakistan, New Zealand, and South Africa, have a similar chance of winning. Just the final two have never triumphed.

India has participated in every World Cup book as one of the favorites since they won their first one in England in 1983, including at house four years later. However, a top player in 1987 challenged conventional wisdom by saying that playing at home had put more strain on the body.

The reasoning went that impossible crowd expectations would triumph over familiarity with the circumstances.

India was ultimately eliminated from the competition in the semifinals.

However, the death wasn’t the same in 2011 when they triumphed at home, with skipper MS Dhoni’s six-hit last stroke.

India advanced to the last in South Africa in 2003 between 1983 and 2011, but it fell to Australia in a heap.

Today, there are high hopes for the group to repeat the success of 2011.

India's Virat Kohli plays a shot during the Asia Cup 2023 super four one-day international (ODI) cricket match between India and Pakistan at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on September 11, 2023

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A World Cup, however, is an odd creature. Over the course of more than six weeks, teams must speed themselves. An earlier loss does not matter because of the format, which pits the 10 teams against one another.

When Pakistan was on the verge of being eliminated in 1992, they” fought like caught cats ,” as their captain Imran Khan urged, and ultimately won the competition.

Walking is essential because, as was the case with India in South Africa in 2003, a team can reach its peak too soon or not late enough, perform their best before the championship, and therefore vanish.

The biggest obstacle for educators is keeping their athletes in shape and timing their peak times. Different people have different patterns, so the key to a World Cup planning is to make sure that their mountains coincide at the appropriate time.

Expectations are high because India won the Asia Cup with such a resounding victory — India scored over 350 against Pakistan before dismissing Sri Lanka for 50 in the final.

It was encouraging for India that their two key participants, who were coming back from harm, quickly settled into the game. Jasprit Bumrah bowled with the kind of talent that has propelled him to the top of his career, setting up American successes with early wickets.

KL Rahul responded with a decade and maintained wickets in the event with his customary absence of fuss only five minutes before the match against Pakistan.

India's Jasprit Bumrah (C) celebrates after taking the wicket of Sri Lanka's Kusal Perera (R) during the Asia Cup 2023 one-day international (ODI) final cricket match between India and Sri Lanka at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on September 17, 2023

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Additionally succeeding are younger people. Shubhman Gill, an opening, moved up to second place in the world rankings behind Babar Azam of Pakistan, and Ishan Kizhan has been performing admirably against some of the best ball ever. In the Asia Cup, Virat Kohli, the lone member of the team to compete in the 2011 last, scored a magnificent centuries against Pakistan.

However, their dexterity is constrained by the absence of a batter in the bottom half who can also plate several overs, and this could have an impact as the competition goes on.

Kuldeep Yadav has made a small complex adjustment to his bowling, and it is paying off. He now bowls more straightened and somewhat faster.

Most World Cup winners have been able to rely on six or even seven batsmen, with Sri Lanka in 1996 serving as a prime example, to make up for an injured or out-of-form player.

All five batsmen and the majority of pitchers must be steady for India to succeed. So, group selection will be of the utmost significance. Hardik Pandya, an all-around athlete, and his ability to continuously bowl throughout the competition may be the key.

Although Australia won three times in a column at the turn of the century, there haven’t been any clear favorites since the West Indies’ heyday and the first three World Cups, which began in 1975.

And that’s what makes the World Cup special: the next three copies have been won by three different nations.