India's opening match against Bangladesh at the World Cup could be viewed as a potential upset given Bangladesh's past victory over India in 2007. However, if India's cricketers see it as a tricky game they could struggle as self-fulfilling prophecies can impact performance. Instead, India must view the opener as simply the first step towards winning the World Cup and ensure they win convincingly to set the right tone for their campaign.
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India's opening match against Bangladesh at the World Cup could be viewed as a potential upset given Bangladesh's past victory over India in 2007. However, if India's cricketers see it as a tricky game they could struggle as self-fulfilling prophecies can impact performance. Instead, India must view the opener as simply the first step towards winning the World Cup and ensure they win convincingly to set the right tone for their campaign.
India's opening match against Bangladesh at the World Cup could be viewed as a potential upset given Bangladesh's past victory over India in 2007. However, if India's cricketers see it as a tricky game they could struggle as self-fulfilling prophecies can impact performance. Instead, India must view the opener as simply the first step towards winning the World Cup and ensure they win convincingly to set the right tone for their campaign.
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India's opening match against Bangladesh at the World Cup could be viewed as a potential upset given Bangladesh's past victory over India in 2007. However, if India's cricketers see it as a tricky game they could struggle as self-fulfilling prophecies can impact performance. Instead, India must view the opener as simply the first step towards winning the World Cup and ensure they win convincingly to set the right tone for their campaign.
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India's attitude to the first game will be just as revealing.
In the minds of many in the media this could be a banana-
skin game: a tricky opener against a side that capsized them in 2007. If India's cricketers look upon it this way, they could be in trouble because hurtful prophecies can be self-fulfilling if you believe they can occur. Wasim Akram told me once about the final of 1999, where the side was too concerned with what would happen if they lost. India must tell themselves that if they desire to win the World Cup, the opener against Bangladesh can be no more than a necessary pit stop. Accordingly India need not just to win but to win in style to send a message to everyone else.