Has India peaked this World Cup?

[CricFan2012]

A firm NO from me.

Many feel they have which is odd.

Some Indian fans are either way too pessimistic or trolling when they downplay their chances at the World Cup in whole.

'England will bring us down to our senses'

'Once Amir gets the top 3 its over'

Just because 2-3 of your batsmen are not as great as your ATG top 3 doesn't mean they're essentially a 'weak middle order'

These batsmen in question: Dhoni, Rahul, Jadhav, get a lot of flak for not being as competent as their top order counterparts.

I feel only Dhoni underperforms most of the time due to his age and slower striking. Rahul and Jadhav are 40 average players which is still great, but again, having two players averaging 60-70 like Rohit and Kohli in the past few years makes others look less way out of place.

This is India's best bowling line up of all time. With Bumrah bowling like Wasim these days, the deadly combination of Kuldeep and Chahal prone to picking up wickets with their variations, and even Bhuvi and Shami being decent bowlers, they're ready to strike fear in the opposition every match.

Every other team barring England has weaknesses in their batting orders, and even then England has one of the worst bowling line ups in the tournament to upset the team balance.

Gone are the days when people feared their batting but rejoiced at the thought of facing their bowlers next, now even if you get the Indian team out for a reasonable score, you will have to face a deadly bowling line up.

India are the most balanced side in the World Cup, firm favourites and I have a strong feeling that they can potentially clean sweep all games this tournament like the Aussies of the past.

Discuss

 

[Ronaldo7]

Jeez. You're just feeding their ego a whole granola bar.

 

[zulfiqar]

India is a gun team and definitely one of the favorites for the WC. I can think of quite a few Indian fans on PP over the last 15 years I have been a part of PP who always troll us because they are superstitious that their team will lose if the fans get cocky. For example, we've had threads in the past starting from Indian fans with titles like "India will get demolished by Pakistan tomorrow", etc. It's all in good fun to be honest

And as for the Indian team weaknesses, it's true that their lower-order is a bit untested and if it gets exposed early they might not fare well. This isn't a weakness unique to India and quite a few other teams have this weakness, barring perhaps England. Pakistan & Australia are also good examples of a team with this weakness.

 

[PakLFC]

No! They have only won two matches with the third rained off. It's to early to say they are the best team in the tournament or have peaked.

 

[OffDrive]

Pakistan are the favourites to smash the Indians, as an Aussies I don't really care about this game, lots of talk from the Pakistani players good sign.

 

[Visaal-E-Yaar]

Indian middle order is vulnerable. Pakistan should look for 2-3 quick wickets.

 

[Itachi]

No! They have only won two matches with the third rained off. It's to early to say they are the best team in the tournament or have peaked.

This. Two match is small sample size to decide peak.

 

[BalluBalleBaaz]

Will find out in another couple of games

 

[Revolution]

See our cricket is good in 2011, 2015 and so far 2019.

In 2015, bowling it was lacking but 2019 only middle order is not confident.

 

[jnaveen1980]

Just like we don't understand some of your over the top reactions against your batsmen, it is hard for you guys to understand our over the top reaction. It is the pulse of a fan something hard to explain.