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In this article we will have a brief look at the performance and prediction of every major team playing this year’s cricket world cup.
First of all let’s start from top, “Australia” who was struggling in 2010 has came back into form after they almost had a white-wash series against England who had won a series against Pakistan earlier 3-2.
Fans of other major team had a brief sigh of relief when they observed bad performance of Australian team during the year 2010 session, but after watching Australia handling England like a man -those fans are anxious again, could it be 4th consecutive world cup victory for Australia ? or is there any team able to defeat them this time.
Next favorite team is India, India has a great season following their past series and they did pretty good against South Africa who was also dominant over Pakistan.
The world cup pattern and pitch conditions will favor India a lot, and predictions says that India will at least qualify for the Semi-Final.
Moving on to England, England has played really well against Pakistan and they did great during the Ashes tour, despite the fact that they lost the One Day International series against Australia by 6-1 -England still has capabilities of fancying their chance of actually winning the World Cup for the first time in the history.
It will really be relief for them and a burden-off from the fact that they have never won a world cup -because if they win the world cup this year, because being national game of England, they have never won it since the time and memorial.
Sri Lanka, just like year 2007’s world cup they have a chance of qualifying for the Final of the world cup. Because the pitch conditions and world cup patter suit them too.
South Africa, just like England they have also never won any world cup. They’ve been through semi finals but always been unlucky. They were top notch team during the world cup 99 and many people thought that if they will defeat Australia then defeating Pakistan at the final would be easy for them (as Pakistan face difficulties when facing South Africa). But this time all the players of South Africa are committed and willing to not to take any sort of pressure or whatsoever.
And finally Pakistan. Pakistan is not a favorite team this time except for the fans of Pakistan (that too are not in large quantity). Even though Pakistan had won an One Day International series against New Zealand but their past two years performance is full if disappointments and off-field dramas. But then again, as everybody knows that Pakistan has capability of doing wonders at times when no one is actually expecting. They are one of the most unpredictable team of all.