The Indian cricket team won the title in 2011 by defeating Sri Lanka in the final on their home soil. After that, India won the Champions Trophy in 2013. Although Team India has come a long way to reach the semi-finals and finals of several ICC tournaments, the dream of lifting the trophy has not come true. In 2011, the Indian team had many veterans who had the power to turn the match on their own and almost 12 years later, India have a great chance to repeat history on their own soil once again. Although there are many differences between the 2011 world champion team and the current team, the biggest difference that makes these teams completely different is the abundance of players who have the ability to show amazing skills in batting as well as bowling.
The 2011 World Cup team had been playing together for a long time. Except for Praveen Kumar, all the other players managed to consolidate their positions. Sreesanth was included in place of Praveen Kumar who missed the World Cup due to injury. India had a very strong bowling attack. There was an army of star bowlers like Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Munaf Patel, Ashish Nehra, Piyush Chawla and Sreesanth. Apart from this, India had batsmen who were as effective in bowling as they were in batting. Batsmen like Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina and Yusuf Pathan had the power to take wickets with the ball when given the chance. A team can be successful in any tournament if it has an army of such players.
However, if that team is compared to the current Indian squad, fans will be shocked to know that the next World Cup is less than two months away and yet the Indian management is yet to identify the incoming players. tournament. Couldn’t even choose. If you look at India’s possible playing eleven, there is no batsman in the top-4 or middle order who is capable of bowling, so if the Indian team plays with five bowlers, they will have to play the whole match with them. . Such a combination can be a headache for any team. Because if a bowler gets hit, the team will not have a part-time bowler for backup.
However, the Indian team is trying to groom such players and current Indian bowling coach Paras Mhambare recently said that India could see an army of such players again in the coming time.
Possible Indian squad for World Cup
Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav/Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammad Siraj, Mohammad Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Yuzvendra Chahal, Ishan Kishan, Akshar Patel
2011 World Cup Team
MS Dhoni (captain and wicketkeeper), Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Yusuf Pathan, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh, Munaf Patel, Ashish Nehra, Piyush Chawla and S Sreesanth.