This tournament has been dominated by the defending champions Australia who have won the World Cup 5 times, they won the 1987, 1999 which was hosted in England, defended their titles in 2003 in South Africa and made it a hat trick of wins in 2007 in the West Indies. Afghanistan are playing in their second world cup after qualifying last year in a tournament for the last two spots the West Indies got the other spot. Others winners include India the 1983 and 2011 champions are also tournament favourites, 1992 winners Pakistan and 1996 winners Sri Lanka. The ten teams tournament includes Australia, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Afagastian,Bangladesh, West Indies and host England.
England head into the world cup this year as the world number 1 side and have been the most dominant side in ODI cricket over the last few years scoring over 300 runs on a consistent basis and being on home soils should strengthen their chances at winning this world cup. I hope this tournament lives up to be good as the 11 World Cup before this one and let's hope for tournament that would deliver the best out of these countries.
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