Top 5 players who can help their team win the Cricket World Cup

With the Cricket World Cup just less than a month away, the predictions as to who will be the eventual winners have started. Hosting the world cup jointly, Australia and New Zeland can count on home advantage to perform well in this year’s edition. South Africa can also be expected to do well if their form in the ongoing ODI series against West Indies is anything to go by.Although the conditions will be totally different to the subcontinent, you still cannot rule out Sri Lanka’s and India’s chances to progress into the latter stages of the tournament.Here are five players who will be crucial if their respective teams are to do well in the World Cup:

#1 Virat Kohli

Although India lost the recently concluded Test series against Australia, Virat Kohli showed why is he considered as the future of Indian cricket. Scoring 692 runs at an average of 86.50, he has answered all his critics who had started to question him after the England tour.

And if India are to do well in the World Cup, Kohli will have to perform in the same way as in the Test series. Given his ability to dictate the tempo of the game in the middle overs and his tendency to score big while chasing, he could prove to be the lynchpin in India’s quest to defend their title.