As the rival teams are honing their skills ahead of the World Cup semifinals beginning on Monday, speculation is rife as to the probable finalists. AIR correspondent says it is going to be two memorable days of cricket where all the four semifinalists will give their best for a favourable result. With the semifinals coming up, the World Cup has reached a decisive phase where the final two teams vying for the trophy are being speculated world wide, before the first two semifinalists actually take field on Tuesday. However realistic the road may have been for the four teams, the tendency to prejudge the situation keeps everything else at a low profile. By far, all the other four semifinalists have lived up to their ODI rankings as they represent the top seven teams in the world with the no. 1 team Australia, no. 3 South Africa and no. 5 England getting out of the race through their defeats at the quarterfinals. It would, all the same, be a mistake if one goes by their rankings and recent performance to guess the winners from the next two games, because New Zealand or Srilanka, India or Pakistan, they will all remind themselves of their best and the worthiest to amass every drop of confidence coupled with a precise dose of realism that will come to play a big role in the big matches coming up tomorrow and the day after.
News On AIR | March 28, 2011 2:50 PM
Speculations rife about probable World Cup finalists