CWC 2019: Top-4 teams with the Highest Win to Loss ratio since the 2015 CWC

#1 England [W/L- 2.521]

England start as the default favourites

From being the whipping boys in white-ball cricket to becoming the trendsetters, England has come a long way since their group-stage exit in the 2015 World Cup. For a better part of the 40-year existence of the ODI cricket, England was far too often guilty of taking a conservative approach; an approach that was completely out of sync with the modern way of playing white-ball cricket. It took a disastrous 2015 World Cup campaign for England to identify the follies in their approach and since then, well, mayhem has ensued.

The numbers prove it too. Since the 2015 World Cup, England have thrown the caution to the wind and have unleashed a fearsome batting-unit that has scaled unimaginable territories [Read: 6-481 vs Australia, 2018], crossing 400 [4] the most number of times, describing their journey from being 'out of sync' to becoming the trend-setters and the No.1 team in the World.

The resurgence is also reflected from the improvement in England's W/L ratio. While an ICC trophy still alludes them, Eoin Morgan's side has dominated ODI cricket in the past four years. Barring the two bilateral series [1-2 vs India, 2017 & 2-3 vs South Africa, 2015-16] that they have lost, England have been clinical in their display as evident by their home and away performances against Australia [4-1 & 5-0 in 2018], New Zealand [3-2, 2015 & 3-2, 2018] and a dominant display against India last summer.

Since the 2015 World Cup, England have won 58 of the 88 matches they have played with an impressive W/L ratio of 2.521 and will go into the World Cup on the back of 11-successive bilateral series victories and with the reputation of being the No.1 ranked ODI side in the world. But will they live up to their form and not succumb as they did in the semi-finals of Champions Trophy two years ago? Only time will tell.