{"id":299766,"date":"2023-11-19T00:24:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T00:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=299766"},"modified":"2023-11-19T00:24:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T00:24:41","slug":"stuart-broad-theres-something-magical-about-the-indian-cricket-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/%d1%81ricket\/stuart-broad-theres-something-magical-about-the-indian-cricket-team\/","title":{"rendered":"STUART BROAD: There&apos;s something magical about the Indian cricket team"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>STUART BROAD: Like Usain Bolt and Brazil, there&#8217;s something magical about the Indian cricket team. I hope they win the World Cup against Australia<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span>India have the same magic as some of sports greats and should win World Cup\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Virat Kohli deserves to be a two-time World Cup winner given his career\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>South Africa could be ones to watch at the next World Cup in Africa in four years\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>India winning the World Cup is a bit like Brazil winning football\u2019s equivalent. There is a bit of magic to it.<\/p>\n<p>And personally, I think it would be great for the game if India come out on top against Australia\u00a0in Ahmedabad because it will inspire the next generation of cricket\u2019s powerhouse, just as their 2011 triumph did.<\/p>\n<p>An Indian victory is the most marketable outcome for the sport \u2014 comparable to when Usain Bolt used to line up for the 100 metres. All of athletics\u2019 stakeholders wanted him to win because it leads to bigger sponsorship, bigger TV rights, greater exposure for the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Given the career Virat Kohli has had, making 50 ODI hundreds, he deserves to be a double World Cup winner in his own country, too.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, England went into the competition as champions. But they were never going to retain their title. There was a lack of clarity in their campaign, via constant changes in personnel, and they didn\u2019t have the firepower with the ball to compete with this beast of an India team. And let\u2019s face it, if you\u2019re not first, you\u2019re last in World Cups.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/18\/20\/77971537-12765935-image-a-56_1700339309239.jpg\" height=\"433\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Virat Kohli will be looking to help India to World Cup victory when they face Australia\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/18\/20\/77971547-12765935-image-a-57_1700339335841.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The trophy that both India and Australia will be looking to lift when they meet on Sunday\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/18\/20\/77971583-12765935-image-a-58_1700339477429.jpg\" height=\"413\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The only team that could upset India in the final could be Pat Cummins&#8217; Australian side\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>India are so powerful in their own conditions that I would say they would win this final 95 times out of 100.<\/p>\n<p>You only need look down their line-up to gauge their strength: they\u2019ve got a top six all of whom can score match-winning hundreds, while any of their bowlers can take a five-for. They\u2019re the only team in the World Cup that you can say that about.<\/p>\n<p>Australia are probably the only opponents \u2014 I would have said Pakistan pre-tournament \u2014 that could potentially upset India because they possess the bowling attack to blow the outstanding top order of the home side away.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s route to producing a shock in my view is win the toss, bowl, hope the ball nips around and for Mitchell Starc to get it right, hit Rohit Sharma on the shin, and Josh Hazelwood following up by nicking off Kohli.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If they could cook up a situation of early wickets like that, placing India under pressure and limiting them to something like 220, you would expect Australia to knock the runs off.<\/p>\n<p>But you only have to look at the rhythm of modern World Cups to work out which way things were going to go on the Subcontinent. The 2011 event was held in India; India won it. In 2015, it was in Australia; Australia won it. In 2019, it was in England; England won it.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, whoever you dish the next World Cup out to becomes a major favourite and so if I was a South African player, I would be looking at things, thinking, \u2018I can definitely play another four years, here\u2019. They will never have a better chance than in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>What I want most of all today is a spectacle. There was a real hoo-ha about the pitch for India\u2019s semi-final win over New Zealand in Mumbai and 99 per cent of world cricket would tell you that it\u2019s not that hard to get a fresh pitch for such a big game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Equally, if you\u2019re a stadium that can get the rights to hold a World Cup semi- final, you should be able to produce a fresh pitch.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/18\/20\/77971615-12765935-image-a-59_1700339577869.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>South Africa could be ones to watch in the next World Cup when it&#8217;s played on African soil\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/18\/20\/77971633-12765935-image-a-60_1700339668883.jpg\" height=\"434\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>England went into the competition as champions &#8211; but they were never going to retain their title (pictured, Ben Stokes)<\/p>\n<p>You could tell Kane Williamson was frustrated by the way he answered questions at the toss, saying: \u2018We\u2019d have liked to have had a bat on a used pitch.\u2019 That\u2019s about as niggly as New Zealand get.<\/p>\n<p>However, if a team can score 400 on it and at the halfway stage the chasing team are in with a chance of knocking off the runs, there can be no criticism of the actual pitch produced. It would have been a different story if it had been a 220 plays 150 scenario. Ultimately, the surface was a belter.<\/p>\n<p>About 50 times better than the one served up for the second semi in Kolkata, in fact. That one was a new-ball bowler\u2019s dream, and you could see the surprise on the South African batters\u2019 faces when it was nipping and bouncing. Then, when the spinners came on, it turned square.<\/p>\n<p>My one wish for Sunday is that it is an occasion when we are able to talk about the brilliance of the cricket on display.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/article-12765935\/STUART-BROAD-India-Cricket-World-Cup-Australia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STUART BROAD: Like Usain Bolt and Brazil, there&#8217;s something magical about the Indian cricket team. 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