**Official Cricket World Cup Thread**

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India have bowling issues too, but they could have hitters from 1-8 (well, except Dravid I guess) in the batting line up so should be worth watching.

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Dravid is quite underrated when it comes to his ability to up the ante. When needed, he is quite capable of scoring at a very quick clip. He has one of the fastest 50s ever in ODIs (in about 23 balls or something againt the Kiwis a couple of years ago). But he usually comes out into the middle when India is looking to preserve wickets while scoring say 5 runs an over. There is hardly anyone in the world better than him at that particular task.

Obviously, I am a huge Dravid fan so you can take all of that with a grain of salt.