Know Your Team - India

And coming to the last team and run away favorites, the Indian squad is the team to die for in sub continent conditions. They look quite the best on paper with a young squad mixed with right amount of experience. And playing at home ,they ll have a crazy fan support which should make for their added 10 percent incentive each match. They have high pressure but the players of late have handled pressure really well and Sachin will again be the one with most expectations, but he is as cool as ever and as good as ever. The teams batting order is its main advantage and it is something any team would die to have. On top of the order the most destructive opening pair if they get going ,Sachin and Sehwag. Viru is still the most feared batsman and Sachin has always scored heavily in world cups and he can certainly repeat it one last time. Gambhir coming in at 3 can be good both defensive and offensive. My choice would be Kohli at no.4 and yuvi and MS and Pathan following ,but the way its looking, it could be a toss up b/n Raina and Kohli and the latter doing really well with an odi average of 46. The bowling department for the first time looks good with Zaheer being probably the best medium pacer at present .Munaf and Nehra can be good but they have to be consistent. Sreeshanth will bring the youthful energy with Harbhajan being the pick of the spinners. The only thing they have messed up is by selecting 3 spinners. We know its sub continent and the ball will grip and spin but common ,half the squad can bowl more than average spin and MSD admits he loves to use Yuvi. If they ever going to need that second spinner they should go for ashwin as he has done well under pressure especially in IPL. If they can get to finals i am sure  captain cool Dhoni will do the rest. All the best India.

Squad: MS Dhoni (capt & wk), Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli, Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Praveen Kumar, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Munaf Patel, Piyush Chawla, R Ashwin