I rate us behind Australia and South Africa but above the rest of the world.
For the WC we should get to the SF stage and once you get there it is anyones game.......just a matter of who does what on what day.
my opinion is australia head and shoulder obove everyone, SA play do too well at home but West-indies will be slightly different. Lanka looks very impressive they have done good away from home. new zeland is falling into peices. then comes Pakistan, India and all.
you must understand one thing, its not just about mercurial performace anymore. you got to have pace, plans, stratgy. field placements are becoming innovative and effective day by day. we seems to be living in a defferent era altogether.
bowlers do not have any plans, captain lack imagination when you do not have plan A, forget about plan B. I don't know what coach is doing. say even our bowlers get fully fit. in this version of game. they are bound to go for runs. we have always relied on individual skills and words like planning are never taken seriously.
many fans think "ok we are missing key players". yes we are but even if they come back. thier skills alone will not win us the world cup, one odd match possible. we have seen that in england tour when we played all strike bowlers and still managed to lose against England.
Having good batsman and bowlers is only half the battle won, how to take best out of one is the bigger challenge. we have never tried out anything with remote sign of purpose attached to it. when those all-rounder were missing. we should have tried a hitter at number 6. who could have provided us an alternative. now Kami is being tried out as opener and we are just 4 games away from the world cup.
sorry mate, that over reliance on individual players who can shine once in a while to win you some matches can not be base to win a tournament of the magnitude of world cup.