Rahul Dravid, the previous India captain, believed India’s latest 2-3 loss to Australia in a domestic one-day worldwide series may have little impact on their ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2019 marketing campaign.
After securing a 2-0 lead within the five-healthy collection remaining month, India didn’t include a resurgent Australian outfit and lost three video games on the trot. However, that changed into an aberration – their incredible shape over the last few years has propelled them to No. 2 on the MRF Tyres ICC ODI Team Rankings, and they may be considered one of the favorites for the World Cup.
“In the remaining 30 months, India has been gambling sincerely properly, and the loss, a whole lot to the credit [of] the manner Australia performed, came at the back give up of a jam-packed series,” he told Times of India.
“We have the proper aggregate for the World Cup. If India wins the World Cup, we will not be traumatized by who won 2-three, or 3-2. There could be a bizarre series that India will lose. But the [ICC] ratings show that India is there and should win the World Cup to become No.1.”
Inevitably, Dravid was asked about India’s 15-guy World Cup squad and the decision to drop Ambati Rayudu and Rishabh Pant. Still, he believed India’s team is so nicely balanced that it may not be remembered. “India has an excellent, balanced crew for this World Cup,” he stated.
“[They have] several mixtures, and there are many options. It is a question of their appearance in the tournament. You can continually argue one or instances, one or names. The crew has been picked, [now] lower back it and hope they do certainly properly.”
England final hosted a World Cup in 1999, and Dravid, who changed into the best run-scorer in that edition, had 461 runs at sixty-five. Eighty-five and two centuries said the situations would be hugely different now. “I anticipate the games to be exceptional compared to 1999 when England last hosted the World Cup, which turned into a barely low-scoring affair,” he recalled.
“This World Cup will possibly be a much excessive scoring one, and India is nicely prepared for that. English situations have been modified, mainly for ODIs. We have been there for the remaining 12 months for [an] ‘A’ series, and the ratings have certainly been high – 300 have become par ratings and have been chased continuously.
“ODIs have changed in England, and [you] cannot go together with the typical attitude that it’ll be the antique English conditions [of swing and seam]. Wickets have become flatter, encouraging higher ratings.”
