Yes, pressure will be there, that is why these fifteen have been chosen and not the left outs.All are professionals and incidentally the India side is the most experienced on the whole.They are expected to handle pressure better than any other team.They don't have to be tought all these crap because they know better that they have to take one match at a time w/o bothering about winning the cup and so on.India's batting may not be all that problematic.It is the bowling combo which ultimately going to make all the difference.So,Dhoni has to keep an open mind, no baggage and fine tune his bowling attack with back up plans based on the results achieved and the learning from the earlier matches.May be for lesser teams like Ireland,Dutch, England &WI he should play two spinners and two pacers.
1. Weak in bowling 2. Poor in fielding - gives one run extra bad throwing bad field placements can't cut off boundaries 3. While batting take 1 run where 2 runs could be taken Poor understanding while running. 4. No world class allrounder in team.(like Watson or Kallis).
Re: Why India may not win WC
by Subhash Bose on Feb 09, 2011 12:11 AM
I have an interesting alternative view. Why India MAY win the WC ?
1. Weak in bowling. Ans: We are not the weakest team in bowling and no other team in the World has a perfectly balanced bowling attack. SA and Australia lack quality spinners. Sri Lanka, Pakistan and may be England dont have a bowling attack 'much better' than India.
2. Poor in fielding - gives one run extra bad throwing bad field placements can't cut off boundaries. Ans: Certainly the fielding is a weakness for the Indian team. Note however that indivuduals like Harbhajan, Raina and Yuvraj are quite good. Besides, Sachin and Sehwag are not exactly average, they are pretty good at fielding too.
3. While batting take 1 run where 2 runs could be taken. Poor understanding while running. Ans: This is not entirely true and is debatable. I believe that the Indian team has fewer run outs in the recent years compared to the past. (I dont have stats to prove that, consult statsguru in cricinfo if needed).
4. No world class allrounder in team.(like Watson or Kallis). We are world number 2 in ODIs despite having a genuine all rounder. If Dhoni finds his batting form and if Yuvraj, Yusuf and ?Sehwag can bowl a few overs well, we have a quite a few all rounders.
my take: India have an excellent chance to win the World Cup 2011. RE: Any good team can win the ODI final on any given day given the fact that variables like toss, pitch conditions, etc. have more impact on ODIs (unlike TEST cricket)
