ICC World Cup 2019 | India are well prepared for the tournament, believes Sachin Tendulkar

Despite the game were being played under a cloudy sky and on a green top, India decided to bat first against New Zealand, so as to have an idea how their batting order fares in such challenging conditions. They faltered in that game but had a lot of positives to bank on in the next game against Bangladesh. Sachin Tendulkar praised Virat Kohli for taking such a decision.

"I thought the game against New Zealand was a tough one. But Virat (Kohli) won the toss and batted first in spite of knowing that the wicket was on the greener side and overcast conditions. It was always going to help the seamers. He possibly wanted to get that practice of playing out the first spell and then slowly building an innings," Tendulkar said. 

"The second match, I think the batting looked good. KL Rahul and Dhoni made big statements there. So all in all, I think good preparation before a tournament like this."

India will be the last team to start their World Cup campaign as by the time they play their first game against South Africa, every team would have played at least one game by then. Tendulkar believes it would give India a chance to chalk out their plans by then.

"The only thing is, they have to wait and watch. See the first match, India play South Africa. They would be watching this [England v South Africa] game. They would have figured out that, 'Okay, these are the bowling changes, and this is how they are going to chase the target'. All these strategies are being planned, and then you don't want to wait for too long, you know," Tendulkar said. 

"You ideally would want to play against them in literally two days, and say, 'Okay we are going to execute our plans, whatever we saw two days ago'. But when there is too much gap, I just hope they don't forget!"