India are confident they can avoid a World Cup upset after defending champions England and South Africa had their tournaments waylaid by shock defeats.
India are confident they can avoid a World Cup upset after defendingchampions England and quietly-fancied South Africa had their tournaments waylaid by shock defeats. Afghanistan stunned England in Delhi on Sunday before the Netherlands claimed their first win over a Test-playing nation at a 50-over World Cup by beating South Africa in Dharamshala on Tuesday.
'When you enter a World Cup, every team will pose you a challenge,' India's bowling coach Paras Mhambrey said. 'From our perspective, maybe any team I don't think we'll take anyone . 'Bangladesh or maybe Netherlands, I think we want to treat that game equally important. Every game for us is important, every opponent for us is important. We are not even looking at that side. 'What we want to focus on is what we are going to achieve in this game.
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