5 reasons why Bangladesh will be the team to beat in the next World Cup

#2 Nothing to lose

Mushfiqur Rahim plays a shot

Given that very few will expect Bangladesh to do something in the tournament, they won’t be under the same pressure to win the World Cup like, say, India or Australia. Indeed, anything beyond progressing the group stages would be deemed as a good effort by the board and the fans.

We have often seen that the pressure to not win anything can make a team do wonders. No-one expected India to win the World Cup in 1983 – and look what happened. Kapil Dev took a team consisting of talented players and led them to glory.

That team had no pressure to win, neither does the Bangladesh cricket team. Without the expectations, the players can play fearlessly, something that might take them very far in the tournament. But fearlessness doesn’t come just like that, Bangladesh didn’t have it before until a certain Masrafe Mortaza.