World cup: Vaughan puts money on India, Pakistan

Vaughan terms India as the clear favourite, however he adds that Pakistan is another team to watch out for.


Express January 28, 2011

Former England skipper Michael Vaughan says his money is on India or Pakistan to win the upcoming cricket World Cup.

The former captain said he was sure that one of the four teams from the subcontinent would win the World Cup. He says that Bangladesh was not good enough yet, and the current crop of Sri Lankan players are not up to the mark. He termed India as the clear favourite, however he said that Pakistan was another team to watch out for.

In an online ODI preview, Vaughan praised India's Virender Sehwag as a match winner:
People talk about him as one of the great entertainers but that only tells half the story. Those big sixes at the top of the order are great to watch but dispatching the opening bowlers to every part of the ground also puts the opposition under huge pressure from very early on. He scores plenty of runs and he scores them very quickly and is probably the player in world cricket who is most capable of winning a match on his own.

On Pakistan, Vaughan said that the team may be missing three crucial players but even without them there is enough talent to make a win possible. According to him, Pakistan will go with Misbahul Haq as their captain.

COMMENTS (9)

muhammad azam | 13 years ago | Reply there is nodoubt in vaughan comments that pakistan is the 2nd favourite team of this world cup..in my opinion there is a lot of potential in pakistan cricket team l have so many reason for that,for example afridi,razzaq,umar akmal, ahmad shehzad and kamran akml are such a players that they can change the whole match senairo at any stage of the match.....on the other hand we also have a strong spin bowing attack like saeed ajmal,shahid afridi,abdul rehman.hafeez is also a good off spin bowler.this make a team into a winning combination and INSHALLAH afridi will be the third khan to win world cup for pakistan,,,,,,,,,,INSHALLAH,,,,
Anjum Majeed | 13 years ago | Reply Pakistan has potential to do it.and INSHA-ALLAH Pakistan show it correctly in shape of won world cup. Pakistan must play with this combination,it they are sincere to country. 1-M Hafeez 2-Kamran akmal or Ahmad shehzad 3-Abdul razzaq 4-Younas khan 5-Shahid afridi 6-Misbah-ul-haq 7-umer akmal or Kamran akmal 8-Wahab riaz 9-Umer gul 10-Abdul Rehman or Saeed ajmal 11-Shoaib akhter. if these players take responsibility then no doubt Pakistan Won the world cup. Insha-Allah
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