The Game! December 2013 | Page 12

WORLDSPORTS DECEMBER 2013 ‘THEY’RE TOUGH TO BEAT’ 10 t h e g a m e sports magazine TITLE FAVOURITES Mahendra Sing Dhoni, centre, with his Indian teammates. I nternational cricket’s top run-scorer Sachin Tendulkar believes sub-continent teams will be hard to beat in the 2015 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. Tendulkar, who helped India to win in 2011 on home soil, quit one-day cricket last year after scoring 18,426 runs. At a ceremony marking 500 days until the tournament’s start, the 40-year-old said: “Along with India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are also good sides.” India are top of the one-day rankings, Sri Lanka fourth and Pakistan sixth.