Sunil Gavaskar picks England has the favorites to win World Cup

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Eoin Morgan and his boys are entering this year’s world cup as the favorites to win it. They have been extremely consistent in the limited overs format and are considered the team that has the best chance of lifting the World Cup this year.

“England are the favourites. Simply because of the way they are playing cricket, the complete turnaround in their cricketing attitude and approach after their disastrous 2015 World Cup,” Gavaskar mentioned, in an interview.

He continued :

“England have got a very good team; they have got lots of confidence. You have seen them in all the recent matches and they have been playing outstanding cricket.”

Gavaskar holds the opinion that having home-field advantage might be a really big factor after Australia won as hosts in 2015 and India won as hosts in 2011.

“If you go by what has happened in the last couple of World Cups, the host team has won,” he added.

“But, of course, in cricket anything can happen. While England start the favourites, there are other teams that are also playing some good cricket.”

Speaking on the changed format, Gavaskar said the following :

“This should be a very, very interesting tournament and I think the format is the best you can have because you are playing every team unlike in two groups,” said Gavaskar.