Former Indian opening batsman Sunil Gavaskar said feels that India might not win the Cup and prefers another team has the best chances to lift the World Cup in 2019.
Gavaskar on the field
The 2019 ICC World Cup which will be the 12th edition since it started in 1975 will be played as the Round-Robin format where 10 teams will be participating and each team will play the other 9 teams only once in the league stage and the top four teams who finish with the most points on the board qualify for the Semi-final stage.
The World Cup begins from 30th May with the first match between hosts England taking South Africa at the Kennington Oval, London. According to Gavaskar, it is England who will be hosting the tournament would have the better chances to win the World Cup as he says “the home conditions will make it suitable for England even more”
“If you go by the history of last two or three World Cups, in 2011 the host nation India won, in 2015 host nation Australia won. In 2019, there is a very good chance that England will win the World Cup,” Gavaskar was quoted as saying by Timesnownews.com during his visit at the British High Commissioner’s residence on Tuesday. “There is a very good chance they (England) will win the World Cup.”
England Cricket team
England has never ever won the 50-over World Cup although they had reached the finals three times first in 1979 against West Indies where the lost by a big margin of 92 runs, the second final appearance was against Australia in 1987 where the lost just by 7 runs at Eden Gardens, Kolkata and in the next World Cup(1992) they lost to Pakistan by 22 runs at the MCG Stadium.
This can be England’s golden opportunity to lift the World Cup as they are one of the contenders considering with their squad strength that they can take the Cup at home. India will also be in the race for the Cup.
