Ganguly and Gambhir consider India as favourites for Cricket World Cup 2019

India are favourites believe Ganguly and Gambhir

Former Indian captain and a prolific limited overs player Sourav Ganguly (in an interview) expressed his views about Cricket World Cup 2019. He is pretty confident about Virat Kohli and company and he believes India are the strongest contenders to life the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019.

Following great performance by team India down under in Australia and then in New Zealand, former captain has shown great confidence in the current Indian batting and bowling line up. He said Indian top order in batting is better than any other team. They know how to handle pressure. They have mastered the art of chasing which is not to easy in the limited overs of cricket. For totals like 250, Indian batting line up finds no issues in chasing down the total comfortably and they are much better than that. They can even chase much bigger totals. Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma are in prime form and they lay down a strong foundation in any ODI innings. 

About bowling he believes Kulcha (Kuldeep Yadav and Yajuvendra Chahal) are doing a brilliant job with the ball. Their variation adds flavor to the Indian bowling line up which already consists of quickies like Shami, Bhuvaneshwar and Bumrah. 

Former cricketer and a part of the world cup winning team in 2011, Gautam Gambhir has also expressed a lot of confidence in the current Indian ODI team. He also picked his squad for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 which is as follows:

Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni, Jasprit Bumrah, Ambati Rayudu, Kedar Jadhav, Dinesh Karthik, Hardik Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Ravichandran Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav.

The official squads for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 are yet to be announced. We will keep you updated with the squads once they are announced. As far as the live cricket action is concerned, Indian cricket fans can enjoy Cricket World Cup 2019 live streaming and telecast on HotStar and Star Sports HD TV network with live English and Hindi commentary.

Sourav Ganguly's ODI career highlights:

Matches - 311

Runs - 11363

Batting Average - 41

Centuries - 22

Wickets - 100

Gautam Gambhir's ODI career highlights:

Matches - 147

Runs - 5238

Batting Average - 39.68

Centuries - 11

Cricket World Cup Winners So Far

Cricket World Cup is certainly the biggest ICC event. Fans eagerly wait for this event as this provides an opportunity to teams around the world to clinch the coveted title and prove their supremacy in cricketing world for next four to five years. This post will help you know world cup winners so far since its first edition in 1975 that was played in England. We will try keep this post short, precise and to the point!

Following are the details on cricket world cups played so far along with the winning team:-

Cricket World Cup Winners So Far
Year	Hosts	Winner	Runner-up
1975	England	West Indies	Australia
1979	England	West Indies	England
1983	England	India	West Indies
1987	India, Pakistan	Australia	England
1992	Australia, New Zealand	Pakistan	England
1996	India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka	Australia
1999	England, Wales	Australia	Pakistan
2003	South Africa	Australia	India
2007	West Indies	Australia	Sri Lanka
2011	India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh	India	Sri Lanka
2015	Australia, New Zealand	Australia	New Zealand

In the first three editions West Indies dominated the other teams. They clinched the world cup trophy twice but failed to make it for the third time when India defeated them in 1983.

Since then if we sum up, Australia have dominated the other editions with five world cup wins so far. 

ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 Venues

The 12th edition of the ever-awaited ICC Cricket World Cup will be played in 2019. This time England and Wales would be hosting this mega event from 30th May to 14th July 2019. The ICC 2019 cricket world cup will kickoff with the first match to be played at the Oval and the final match will be hosted by the Lord's.

Here is a brief information on the venues for ICC Cricket World Cup 2019:

Venues for ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 – England and Wales
Ground	Seating Capacity	No. of Matches to be Played
Edgbaston	25000	5
Sophia Gardens	15600	4
Bristol County Ground	17500	3
Riverside Ground	20000	3
Headingley	18350	4
Lord’s	28000	5
The Oval	25500	5
Old Trafford	26000	6
Trent Bridge	17500	5
Rose Bowl	25000	5
County Ground Tauton	12500	3

This time there are certain changes in the format. We won't be seeing groups and Associate nations featuring this time. 

Ten teams would battle it out in 48 matches with a round robin format to clinch the coveted title. 

We will soon post information on World Cup 2019 live streaming official broadcasters, squads, latest news and much more.