James Anderson has marked England as clear favourites to win the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 going as far as to say that only a massive “screw-up” will stop them from triumphing on home soil.
“There’s no-one really anywhere near [England] in the one-day form, probably India is the closest,” said Anderson on the BBC Tailenders podcast. “I think in our conditions I don’t think anyone is going to come near so I think we’ve really got to screw up if we don’t win the World Cup.”
Barring the one blemish against Scotland where they lost the one-off ODI in Aberdeen, England have won nine of their last 10 bilateral ODI series, which includes victories over India, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand.
“I don’t want to put too much pressure on the lads, but the way that England play, the talent we’ve got, the players we’ve got and the way we play as a team I just think we’ve got all bases covered,” he said.
England’s next 50-over series will be away in the West Indies in February.
