India's performance in the ICC World Cup 2015 has been pleasantly surprising. This is the same team that lost every match in the Tri Series that was played between Australia, India and England. The bowling was awful and the bowlers looked totally out of sorts. Shikhar Dhawan was completely out of form and was getting out early in each and every match. In the Test series held prior to that India did not win a single match and the bowling was average.
However the team seems to have totally transformed come the World Cup. The bowlers began bowling at the right places the batters are batting well Shikhar Dhawan came back in form from the very first match that was played against Pakistan and even the spin duo of Jadeja and Ashwin are doing quite well.
Beating Pakistan and South Africa convincingly in the first two matches must have done a world of good to the confidence levels of the players. The bowling has been impressive and good . It seemed that the team was actually stretched in two league matches against relatively lesser teams like West Indies and Zimbabwe.
The match against West Indies was played on the fastest wicket on earth ie Perth. Indian pacers did well and got the West Indian team out for a paltry 180 runs. While chasing India did manage to score the runs but lost 6 wickets in the process.
The most difficult match seemed to be against a much lower ranked Zimbabwe which will not be playing in the quarterfinals. The ground in Auckland was small so the Zimbabwean batsmen took advantage of it and managed to score 287 at one point of time it seemed like they would score 300 plus runs . However the tail was very quickly polished off by the Indian quicks. However India didn't find it east to chase down 287 at one point of time India had lost 4 wickets for 93 runs and at that time the run rate was not great either around 4 runs per over.
India had to score more than 90 runs in the last ten over which the duo of Dhoni and Raina managed to do. Earlier there was a easy chance given by Raina but the fielder dropped a very easy catch. Had that catch been taken it very well could have been a different story.
But anyhow its great to see Team India make it 6 out of 6 in the league phase . The semi-final match is scheduled to be played against Bangladesh at MCG on 19th March. India should in no situation underestimate Bangladesh and treat them at par with Australia or South Africa. Should India play to it full potential in the match against Bangladesh , India will win and make it to the semi-final.
I wish that India wins the World Cup again this time in Australia.
However the team seems to have totally transformed come the World Cup. The bowlers began bowling at the right places the batters are batting well Shikhar Dhawan came back in form from the very first match that was played against Pakistan and even the spin duo of Jadeja and Ashwin are doing quite well.
Beating Pakistan and South Africa convincingly in the first two matches must have done a world of good to the confidence levels of the players. The bowling has been impressive and good . It seemed that the team was actually stretched in two league matches against relatively lesser teams like West Indies and Zimbabwe.
The match against West Indies was played on the fastest wicket on earth ie Perth. Indian pacers did well and got the West Indian team out for a paltry 180 runs. While chasing India did manage to score the runs but lost 6 wickets in the process.
The most difficult match seemed to be against a much lower ranked Zimbabwe which will not be playing in the quarterfinals. The ground in Auckland was small so the Zimbabwean batsmen took advantage of it and managed to score 287 at one point of time it seemed like they would score 300 plus runs . However the tail was very quickly polished off by the Indian quicks. However India didn't find it east to chase down 287 at one point of time India had lost 4 wickets for 93 runs and at that time the run rate was not great either around 4 runs per over.
India had to score more than 90 runs in the last ten over which the duo of Dhoni and Raina managed to do. Earlier there was a easy chance given by Raina but the fielder dropped a very easy catch. Had that catch been taken it very well could have been a different story.
But anyhow its great to see Team India make it 6 out of 6 in the league phase . The semi-final match is scheduled to be played against Bangladesh at MCG on 19th March. India should in no situation underestimate Bangladesh and treat them at par with Australia or South Africa. Should India play to it full potential in the match against Bangladesh , India will win and make it to the semi-final.
I wish that India wins the World Cup again this time in Australia.
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