ICC World Cup 2019: One player from each of the top 5 ICC ODI ranked teams that can help them win the tournament

ODI Rank #2 India – Virat Kohli

Virat Kohli

Over the past few years, team India has won almost every ODI series across the world. Whether home or away, they have played an excellent brand of cricket and have stamped their authority on almost every team. A lot of credit goes to the selectors for identifying the talent and to the team management for rewarding these players with ample opportunities to prove themselves on the international level. As a result, India successfully created a pool of extremely talented players that have great potential to win matches with their cricketing skills.

Interestingly, unlike previous years, India not only have a strong batting line-up with Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, MS Dhoni but also, possesses an extremely fatal bowling attack spearheaded by Jaspreet Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, and Yuzvendra Chahal. And the icing on the cake has been the eventual discovery of genuine pace bowling all-rounder, Hardik Pandya that provides the team with a much-needed balance to the side especially considering the English condition.

Yet, India needs one man to perform more than anyone else to win the ICC World Cup 2019 and that’s none other than the Indian captain Virat Kohli. Last year, the best batsman in the world deservingly won all three ICC awards – the Player of the Year, the ODI Player of the Year and Test Player of the Year, a milestone achieved by none in the history of cricket.

The batting maestro has been in sublime form for the past two years and has scored over 1000 runs each year with his superlative batting. With every passing day, just like a bottle of wine, the 30-year-old is only getting better and better. Despite the fact that he has already achieved almost every batting record in the world of cricket, going by the looks of it, it appears that his best is yet to come and the entire nation hope to witness it in the upcoming ICC World Cup.

More than a billion people around the world will join their hands together and pray for Kohli, just like they did for batting legend, Sachin Tendulkar, to continue his exceptional batting display and lead the team to another World Cup glory – much like the way he did back in U19 ICC World Cup 2008.