Cricket fever is the talk of the town these days, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will host the tenth edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup in February. Cricket is followed like religion in the subcontinent and the people of this part of the world are passionate about their regional teams, the event is drawing near, and assumptions are in the air who will win the crystal trophy this time. Australia has made history by winning three consecutive World Cup final release, but this time history will witness some of the other contenders instead of Australia.
Subcontinent pitches are way different from other countries, they are less resilient little slow and a lot of support for the spinners and the swing is not what the sub-continent pitches are known, the graveyard for fast bowlers, all of these facts has made a long list of candidates to win in this Release World Cup.
Bangladesh is a co-host of this edition that does not mean that the losing streak, the products are always upsets in the earlier edition of this mega cricket event, but they are not in the list of favorites.
West Indies won the first two editions, but never seen in this contact in the previous releases, you've got quality all-rounder Ramesh likes of Sarwan and Chris Gayle, but winning the World Cup is still a dream for them.
New Zealand have gone through a lot during the cricketing calendar year, after losing to Bangladesh and India in the sub continent pitches, its a little hard to expect them to win the World Cup since losing to Pakistan and even in his place by winning the World Cup as Snow in the summer for them.
Zimbabwe is known for digging wonders such as Bangladesh, and after news of a clean sweeping the Indian team on their home turf, which is more likely to find players from one side rather than religious, but still winning this event is out of context for them.
England Ashes call on them this year, flying from the play bowling and batting departments, but they are still batting revolves heavily around Struass and Andrew Kevin Pietersen plays that are pretty low on the fertile slopes of the subcontinent else they lack quality spinner in their team, Monty is Paneasr one of their upcoming weapons, but is out of the event due to injury.
Australia suffered a great loss after the departure of Symonds and McGrath, Warne and Gilchrist from his playing eleven o'clock, but came back and shocked the cricketing nation by winning some high scorers, but still lacks consistency in producing quality cricket.
Srilanka is definitely a strong contender for the World Cup winner's list, their body language is impressive, they are born to deal with pressure situations, Sangakara `s people are known for their performance in Fielding Division.
Pakistan has been co-hosted the event before being pulled by the ICC due to security measures, as Asif and Aamir were not part of the game eleven, Malik Yousaf and not selected on the basis of the discipline, its a little hard to predict anything about this inconsistent team but since the domestic field advantage could be turning the table for them.
India is definitely in good touch after beating New Zealand and South Africa is a pretty good margin, they are strong candidates for this World Cup Hall of Fame list of likes and Tendulakar Yousaf Pathan and Sehwag and Zaheer Khan are the favorite team for the ICC World Cup cricket.
