For any cricketer of international repute, playing the World Cup is an ultimate dream. Nothing comes ahead of playing and being a part of the World Cup winning team. A player like Sachin Tendulkar had to wait for more than 20 years to be part of the World Cup winning team. In between, he played the World Cups in 1992, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2007 and finally became a part of a world champion team in 2011. It was a dream come true for the little master.
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Now that he has left the game, the enthusiasm of the current lot is just the same as it was in 2011. Even though there are only four cricketers who are still part of the team from the last World Cup, the rest of the gang is up in arms to bring back the Cup.
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Forget and forgive for what India have done in last the couple of months in Australia. There are challenges like lack of fitness of some of the key players, the two new ball in ODI cricket and field restrictions. But the rule applies for everyone and this is a level playing fielding for all the participating team.
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All the talk about Asian countries not able to adjust to the new ODI rule has taken the backseat for now. For a team like India, they want to start their Cup campaign with a bang. After sorting out who is injured and who is fit, the team wants to put its mind in making the right combination for one final time before the first match against Pakistan.
The team has reached a stage from where there is no going back. The players have to fight in there and then. A week long break has given them the motivation that they can go out there and clinically wipe out the opposition one by one. The picture of the 2013 Champions Trophy win is still fresh in the minds of the India cricketers and right now they have the self-belief that nothing is impossible.
It is revealed that the team is not thinking about the World Cup knock-out stages as of now, the focus is to take one match at a time. Due to the format of the tournament, getting into the quarterfinals isn’t much of an issue. What is important for the team is to play the league stage matches with certain amount of authority, like they did in the Champions Trophy. For India, no team is big or small. Every opposition is just the same. It’s matter of how well they can execute their game plan. The stage is set and the new bunch of players don’t want to wait for two decades to be part of a winning team. The players want to be a part of the history in 2015 only!
