India World Cup Team 2023 compared to the winning team of 2011, see how these teams perform in comparison to each other

India ODI World Cup Team 2023: The ICC ODI World Cup 2023 will start in India from 5 October. The names of 15 players of Team India for the mega event were announced by the chairman of the selection committee, Ajit Agarkar, on 5 September. After the year 2011, ODI World Cup is being played in India for the first time. For this reason, Team India playing under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma is being seen as a strong contender to win the title.

If the Indian team announced for the World Cup is compared with the winning team of the year 2011, then big differences will be clearly visible. The average age of the team that won the ODI World Cup under the captaincy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni was 28 years, while this time the average age of the team is 30.06 years.

Only Sachin was above 30 in the year 2011 team’s batting, this time 4 players

If we look at India’s 2011 world team, at that time Sachin Tendulkar was the only one among all the players in the team whose age was beyond 30 years. Apart from this, veteran players like Captain Dhoni, Raina, Sehwag, Gambhir and Yuvraj were included. With the age of all of them being less than 30 at that time, they had also proved themselves to be match winning players.

If we look at the age of the batsmen of the announced World Cup team this time, Captain Rohit Sharma is 36 years old, Virat Kohli is 34 years old, Suryakumar Yadav is 32 years old and KL Rahul is 31 years old. Virat has also been a part of the 2011 World Cup winning team. At the same time, the names of Shubman Gill, Ishaan Kishan and Shreyas Iyer are included in the team among batsmen under 30 years of age.

Dhoni’s team had 3 specialist spinners, this time only 1

When Team India won the 2011 World Cup, the role of the bowlers was also very important in it. At that time the fast bowling was led by Zaheer Khan and Ashish Nehra, who were considered very experienced. At the same time, in the spin department, apart from Harbhajan Singh, India also had the option of Piyush Chawla and Ravichandran Ashwin.

Playing under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, only one specialist spinner in the form of Kuldeep Yadav has got a place in this team. Apart from this, fast bowling includes Bumrah, Shami and Siraj, in which all three will be seen playing together after a long time.

All-rounders the biggest difference between the two teams

When India won the 2011 World Cup, Yuvraj Singh played a very important role as an all-rounder. Apart from this, such players were present in that team as Sehwag, Yuvraj, Sachin, Raina and Yusuf Pathan, who used to give the option of throwing something in bowling along with batting.

If we look at the team announced for the World Cup 2023, apart from Ravindra Jadeja, Hardik Pandya, Akshar Patel, Shardul Thakur, no other player gives the option of both batting and bowling. Although not all these players play in the upper order. While Sehwag and Yuvraj were the main batsmen in the World Cup 2011 team.

Team India for the World Cup 2023 is like this:

Shubman Gill, Rohit Sharma (c), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, KL Rahul (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), Hardik Pandya (vc), Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Akshar Patel, Mohammed Siraj, Mohammed Shami , Jaspreet Bumrah, Shardul Thakur.

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