Virender Sehwag: India favourites to win 2019 World Cup

Virender SehwagCelebrated former opening batsman Virender Sehwag on Friday said India are favourites to lift the 2019 ICC World Cup to be held in England We are favourites to win the 2019 World Cup Sehwag said during the launch of Boria Majumdars book Eleven Gods and A Billion Indians at the Fannatic Sports Museum here Sehwag said this Indian team under Virat Kohli has the potential to win a Test series abroad despite their 12 defeat in South Africa in the recently concluded test seriesThis team has the capability to win Test series outside India We could have won the first or second Test if we played one session well with the bat said Sehwag who is Kings XI Punjabs mentor in the ongoing Indian Premier League IPL Punjab take on Kolkata Knight Riders KKR on Saturday Asked if this bowling attack is the best till date Sehwag said In our days we had Javagal Srinath Zaheer Khan Ajit Agarkar and Ashish Nehra But they rarely got to play together and when they did we reached the final in the 2003 World Cup This lot is really good They can deliver in any conditions India will tour Australia later this year but the hosts will be without the star power of skipper Steve Smith and opener David Warner who have been suspended for a year for the ball tampering incident Quizzed if that would help Kohli and Co Sehwag said It doesnt matter if they are there or not Sehwag who won two World Cups with India the 2007 inaugural T20 World Cup and the 2011 50over World Cup added that winning the 2007 World Cup was more special as India had a young team under then justappointed skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and there were no expectationsI think 2007 World Cup win is the best We won there with a young team and a new captain Nobody expected us to win he recalled On Punjabs West Indian opener Chris Gayle who smashed a whirlwind 63ball 104 against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Thursday Sehwag said there is no bigger entertainer than the effervescent 38yearold who is T20 crickets most successful batsman Nobody is a greater entertainer than him Sehwag said Gayle was not picked in the IPL auctions initially before Punjab decided to take T20 crickets most successful batsman for his base price of Rs2 crore Dropped for the first two games Gayle helped Punjab beat Chennai Super Kings by notching up a 33ball 63 before the hundred That was a strategy because we had to buy other players also He would have cost more if he was taken up in the first phase Sehwag explainedHe was injured last season and it is difficult to score runs Ask any cricketer with a back injury its difficult to score runs and thats what he told us also He missed a lot of games because he had pain in his back Kohli dropped him also from Royal Challengers Bangalore I was expecting nobody will pick him hes of my age If we pick him hes good guy to do the marketing Hes fabulous with all the marketing guys everyone loves Chris Gayle He fits in our group also We bought him for Rs 2 crore and if he wins two games I recovered my money Still more games to go and if he wins two more time he wins four games Hes a big asset for KXIP now Sehwag addedCatch up on all the latest IPL news and updates here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updatesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever