Could England win cricket world cup if...?

Question

When England practise, English bowlers bowl to English batsmen. Bowlers do ok in the nets, and batsmen do ok in the nets. Then they have to play in the real world in competative international matches against true internationals. My question is this:- If England had batsmen good enough to face true international bowlers, and if England had bowlers good enough to bowl to true international batsmen, then would we have a chance of winning of the world cup. Please say yes, lol.

Answer 1

Yes Yes Yes England could have won if all other 15 teams were also English. Are you happy now?

Answer 2

England do have some of the best players in international cricket. It is however not just the case of having individuals who play well they need to play as a team

Here is the latest rankings from the ICC

Batting (Test)

1 R.T. Ponting AUS 936 942 v England, 01/12/2006
2 Mohammad Yousuf PAK 915 933 v West Indies, 27/11/2006
3 K.P. Pietersen ENG 870 896 v Australia, 14/12/2006
4 K.C. Sangakkara SL 857 857 v New Zealand, 15/12/2006
5 M.E.K. Hussey AUS 842 842 v England, 02/01/2007
6 M.L. Hayden AUS 828 935 v England, 07/11/2002
7 J.H. Kallis SA 820 896 v England, 06/01/2005
8 R. Dravid IND 816 892 v Pakistan, 16/03/2005
9 B.C. Lara WI 801 911 v South Africa, 02/01/2004
10 Younis Khan PAK 789 856 v England, 04/08/2006
11 A.G. Prince SA 755 756 v Pakistan, 11/01/2007
12 Inzamam-ul-Haq PAK 735 870 v England, 29/11/2005
13 D.P.M.D. Jayawardene SL 710 836 v England, 30/05/2002
14 A.J. Strauss ENG 699 769 v South Africa, 13/01/2005
15 P.D. Collingwood ENG 687 730 v Australia, 01/12/2006
16 S.P. Fleming NZ 674 702 v Bangladesh, 26/10/2004
17 G.C. Smith SA 672 756 v New Zealand, 26/03/2004
18 I.R. Bell ENG 671 671 v Australia, 02/01/2007
19 A.C. Gilchrist AUS 662 874 v South Africa, 08/03/2002
20 M.J. Clarke AUS 657 692 v England, 14/12/2006
21 S. Chanderpaul WI 650 811 v Sri Lanka, 13/07/2005
22 S.R. Tendulkar IND 642 898 v Zimbabwe, 21/02/2002
23 M.E. Trescothick ENG 621 818 v Pakistan, 12/11/2005
24 A.N. Cook ENG 612 662 v Australia, 14/12/2006
25 V. Sehwag IND 610 854 v South Africa, 28/11/2004
26 V.V.S. Laxman IND 601 753 v Australia, 02/01/2004
27 C.H. Gayle WI 596 663 v South Africa, 29/04/2005
28 Habibul Bashar BAN 587 656 v Pakistan, 03/09/2003
28 A. Flintoff ENG 587 645 v Sri Lanka, 11/05/2006
30 H.H. Gibbs SA 581 825 v West Indies, 16/01/2004

Bowling(Test)

1 M. Muralidaran SL 913 915 v Pakistan, 06/03/2002
2 M. Ntini SA 856 863 v India, 26/12/2006
3 A. Kumble IND 731 859 v Sri Lanka, 26/01/1994
4 S.M. Pollock SA 730 909 v England, 25/11/1999
5 M.J. Hoggard ENG 725 795 v Sri Lanka, 28/05/2006
6 S.E. Bond NZ 722 778 v West Indies, 09/03/2006
7 S.R. Clark AUS 720 720 v England, 02/01/2007
8 Mohammad Asif PAK 710 710 v South Africa, 26/01/2007
9 A. Flintoff ENG 708 810 v Pakistan, 12/11/2005
10 Shoaib Akhtar PAK 698 855 v New Zealand, 26/12/2003
11 C.D. Collymore WI 690 700 v India, 02/07/2006
12 W.P.U.J.C. Vaas SL 663 800 v India, 02/12/2005
13 Danish Kaneria PAK 662 723 v England, 12/11/2005
14 B. Lee AUS 644 658 v West Indies, 01/12/2000
15 J.E.C. Franklin NZ 637 679 v Sri Lanka, 07/12/2006
16 I.K. Pathan IND 631 761 v Sri Lanka, 10/12/2005
17 S.J. Harmison ENG 619 875 v West Indies, 19/08/2004
18 Umar Gul PAK 608 627 v West Indies, 27/11/2006
19 D.L. Vettori NZ 598 681 v Australia, 11/03/2000
20 S.C.G. MacGill AUS 593 728 v West Indies, 13/03/1999
21 J.N. Gillespie AUS 589 812 v New Zealand, 26/11/2004
22 C.S. Martin NZ 585 643 v England, 24/05/2004
23 A. Nel SA 583 763 v Australia, 02/01/2006
24 Harbhajan Singh IND 574 765 v New Zealand, 12/12/2002
25 J.H. Kallis SA 564 742 v England, 21/08/2003
26 S. Sreesanth IND 555 569 v South Africa, 26/12/2006
27 Zaheer Khan IND 548 660 v Australia, 04/12/2003
28 Mohammad Rafiq BAN 541 587 v Zimbabwe, 06/01/2005
29 P.T. Collins WI 521 597 v South Africa, 31/03/2005
30 S.L. Malinga SL 517 517 v New Zealand, 15/12/2006

Answer 3

England is a good side but they arent just playing good they just have been totaly trashed by south africa in all departments does it tellyou if english/batsmen/bowlers are capable to perform against top international players? England should change their managment Vaughn should be kicked and they should let Strauss play regularly. If the managment changes they have a chance to win the next world cup

Answer 4

ok well pieterson is thw worlds best one day batsman, though frankly on the england performance i am currently watching you wouldnt guess it. so in theory we do have a world class batsmen for the bowlers to to practice but the problem is that the coaching is all wrong! we need to have a change at the top for some fresh ideas, players that were capable of putting on the performance of 2005 ashes series dont suddenley become rubbish, too many are under performing i dont believe that the whole team has suddenly lost form, its a coaching problem, we approach games like the other international cricket nations do.

Answer 5

how much are the players fired up in the nets? do the bowlers bowl to their top potential as if they are playing a game? If not, then how can the batsmen practise against true bowling?

Answer 6

LOL !!

Yes !!

If England could cover up these soo many "IFs"..then why not !! but the team who does not have that many "IFs' in their team is known as Australia these days !! But Good luck to england........England is also kind of unlucky team....they qualified twice for world cup final previously and could not make it even once.What a pitty !!!.......but today's england team didn't deserve to be the champion...as you know there are far better teams this time and everyone is best for one or other reason ! So Better Luck Next Time !

Answer 7

England will never win the world cup as long as we let the foreigners come over here to play cricket, the counties relie on foreigners and so we are left with the dross to represent England.

Answer 8

We are the second best Test Team in the world.

We don't need ODI cricket right now.

We have another 4 years till the next world cup. Chances are Bangladesh will win that one.

Answer 9

There is an awful lot of ifs in your question,i think you could put 20 ifs,and the answer would still be the same.NO WE ARE NOT ANY WHERE NEAR GOOD ENOUGH.Wrong team,wrong manager,wrong attitude,no bloody good.

Answer 10

They might win it next world cup but unfortunately they're out of it this year.....beaten by the SA team.