Michael Vaughan drops a massive statement in response to India being touted as favourites to lift the 2023 World Cup title
England Cricket Team beat Pakistan by 5 wickets in the final to win the 20-20 World Cup 2022 in Australia on Sunday. With that, they have become the only team to become the reigning champions in both ODI and the 20-20 World Cup.
The next edition of the ODI World Cup is slated to take place in India in 2023 and a lot of people believe that India are favourites to lift the trophy.
However, former England skipper, Michael Vaughan has rubbished all such claims and said that England are the team to beat in the World Cup, keeping in mind their supremacy in white-ball cricket for the last half a decade.
“The next big ticket is to win the 50 over World Cup in India next year. They have good spin options and you have to put them down as favourites for that tournament as well. When the tournament starts people will have India as favourites on home soil. Utter nonsense. England will be the team to beat without any question and that is going to be the case for a few more years to come,” Vaughan wrote in the Daily Telegraph.
“This group of England white ball players is extraordinary and for once English cricket has a trendsetting team the rest of the world should emulate.
Vaughan, further said that India should ‘swallow their pride’ and take inspiration from the England side.
“How are England going about their business? What do they do? If I was in charge of Australia I would be all over Mike Hussey, who was a specialist batting coach with England at this tournament and asking what they do behind the scenes. If I was running Indian cricket I would swallow my pride and look at England for inspiration,” he added.
Meanwhile, team India are set to play against New Zealand in three T20Is and as many ODIs, starting 19th November 2022. Hardik Pandya has been appointed as the captain for the T20 series.
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