CWC 2019 Mania - Precursor !
The Cricket World Cup Mania is here again … Aha ! The World Cup fever bug bites us again & this time it promises to be bigger & faster and high scoring than before. I like this format than the ones in the recent past, in the sense that each team plays the other & hence has an ample opportunity to address a slip and recover in time. This also means unlike the 3 or 4 team groups where a single “upset” can (* & has …. remember the heartbreak of both India & Pakistan in 2007 WC ?) potentially knock you out of the tournament without a “second chance”. In the current scenario, the more fancied teams or shall I dare say, the stronger of the lot of 10, have a more realistic chance of making the top 4. As mentioned above, any slips-ups or upsets would set the alarm if only to come back harder in the next match. For any proud cricket follower in a cricket crazy nation, it becomes his birth-right to first, dish out predictions on the champions; boil it down to the...