What is the strongest World Cup squad your team has announced at a Cricket World Cup ?

[Fuller Pilch]

Aus had some young guys who became some really good players like Boon, Jones, Waugh, Reid and McDermott but yeah, they were such outsiders the Aus media only sent one journo over to cover it iirc. The two semi final results were huge upsets.

Probably the first example of Simmo's influence as coach - he caned them with fielding drills and put a huge emphasis on running between wickets as well, something at which he and Lawry were apparently genius level. Plus TOTAB of course - run a ball 30 odd plus 2 fer in a WC final. The greats chip in when it matters.

The use of slower balls from Waugh and O'Donnell was also revolutionary.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Funnily enough, I think England 2003 was pretty strong too. They obviously got ****ed over by the Zimbabwe mess, but they were competitive in all fixtures which included that classic with Australia.

You could argue that 2003 was perhaps the all round strongest World Cup. SA and Eng were strong but didn't make the Super 6 for largely non cricket related reasons.

And NZ probably missed the semis for non-cricket reasons too, although if we'd beaten one or both of Australia and India as we should've, we would've qualified anyway.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

2015