India haven’t put a foot mistaken of their authoritative run within the Cricket World Cup thus far, profitable all of their eight group video games thus far. The Rohit Sharma-led will tackle Netherlands on Sunday within the final league match, earlier than squaring off New Zealand/Pakistan within the semi-final subsequent week. Former West Indies captain Vivian Richards mentioned whereas India may need the mindset to win the World Cup this time, a change in method might show to be expensive.
“By way of this 12 months’s competitors, India have a mindset that they will go all the best way enjoying like this. That completely ought to be their mindset and could be mine if I used to be in that dressing room – let’s exit with all weapons blazing. That method has labored thus far and if that modifications, issues might go astray,” Viv Richards informed ICC.
Richards, nevertheless, praised India’s type within the event, and in addition had some recommendation for them, in how one can take care of ‘fears of a nasty sport within the semi-final’.
“I consider they will go all the best way unbeaten, which is absolutely one thing to try for. There could also be some fears of ‘now we have performed so properly thus far, there could also be a nasty sport across the nook within the semi-final’. They must try to nullify these and banish any adverse ideas”, he added.
The hosts have streamrolled each group of their path, with each batters and bowlers ticking the packing containers. Whereas Virat Kohli is main the batting charts for India with 543 runs in eight matches, Mohammed Shami leads the pack within the bowling division with 16 scalps in simply 4 video games.
India will look to take care of their profitable momentum with a win over Nethelands on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Sunday.
India squad: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ishan Kishan, Prasidh Krishna, Suryakumar Yadav
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