All eyes will be on star India batter Virat Kohli, who is perhaps battling the biggest form crisis of his career.
"It was a treat to watch you play, the six off the back foot in the 19th over against (Haris) Rauf over long-on was spectacular. Keep it going," Tendulkar tweeted.
The 42-day break would give Kohli the time to introspect, and rejuvenate his cluttered mind.
India became the first team in the history of One-Day Internationals to win by a margin of 300 runs or more as they thrashed Sri Lanka by 317 runs in the third and final ODI in Thiruvananthapuram, on Sunday.
Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have a chance to cement their status as two of the best to play the 20-over format.
Rachin Ravindra's blistering century against South Africa in the Champions Trophy semi-final, his fifth in just 13 ICC ODI innings, places him among cricket's elite.
IMAGES from the 1st ODI played between India and Sri Lanka in Guwahati on Tuesday.
The dawn of a new era had begun under Sourav Ganguly's aggressive leadership. With Ganguly and Coach John Wright at the helm India had transitioned into a force to be reckoned with.
David Beckham was the toast of the crowd when he entered the Wankhede Stadium accompanied by Sachin Tendulkar.
The record-shattering Virat Kohli became the quickest to reach 10,000 ODI runs on his way to slamming yet another century as India notched a competitive 321 for six in the second match against the West Indies, in Visakhapatnam, on Wednesday.
After their colleagues had departed following breezy fifties on a good M Chinnaswamy Stadium track, Iyer (128 not out) struck his fourth ODI ton before Rahul (102) exploded as the duo lit up the stage on the Hindu festival of Diwali to get India to 410-4.
4 Aussies, 3 Indians, 1 Kiwi, 3 South Africans in Harish Kotian's World Cup 2023 Dream XI.
Indian captain Virat Kohli has set a new benchmark for consistency
It was exactly eight years ago when India's batting sensation Virat Kohli slammed his highest score 183 runs during the Asia Cup One-Day International against Pakistan in Dhaka. The right-handed batsman smashed 22 fours and one six in his 148-ball knock, helping India register a stunning six-wicket victory as they chased down a huge target of 330, with 13 balls to spare, on March 18, 2012.
This is India's fourth ODI World Cup final.
'If we focus on doing the basics well and give our best in whatever we do, then we have a good chance of going through the semis.' 'After that, we need just two good days to win the World Cup.'
Virat Kohli anchored another tricky chase with perfection after Mohammad Shami's sizzling five-wicket haul as India outclassed New Zealand by four wickets.
'One of the things I have seen with Rohit is that if he gets in, he scores big runs and really affects the game. He must have scored 4-5 hundreds in the World Cup last year.'
Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma slammed centuries as a dominant India humiliated Sri Lanka by a record 168-run margin in the fourth One-Day International in Colombo, on Thursday.
Indian team will certainly feel a sense of deja vu when it takes on a red-hot South Africa on Sunday in what will be a battle of equals
Warner and Bairstow put on 185 in just 16.2 overs in a 118-run victory over Virat Kohli's Royal Challengers Bangalore, surpassing Gautam Gambhir and Chris Lynn's opening stand of 184 against Gujarat Lions in the 2017 season.
India captain Virat Kohli says the responsibility of leading the team motivates him to push his limits in testing conditions which eventually helps him score big Test hundreds.
Let us look at the batters who finally managed to hit three figures after a prolonged period of time.
Centuries from openers Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan powered Titans to an emphatic victory against champions CSK.
Images from the second One-Day International between Bangladesh and India, in Chattogram, on Saturday.
Under Kohli, playing cricket will now be about winning, not avoiding defeat. India will not just be liked or admired -- it will be respected and feared. A country whose stars were labeled 'talented' or 'elegant' or 'inconsistent' now finds itself with a captain who is professional, tough, and combative, the embodiment of athleticism, aggression, and ambition. A fascinating glimpse from Pride, Prejudice And Punditry: The Essential Shashi Tharoor.
For MP, Saransh Jain, Kumar Kartikeya and Anubhav Agarwal also took two wickets apiece. MP got seven points from the win. The outright-winning team gets six points while a victory of an innings or 10-wickets fetches seven points.
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India captain Virat Kohli feels that chinks in his technique apart from utter desperation to succeed in England led to a disastrous tour of 2014 post which, he not only worked on his mindset but also on his batting.
The 13-run win saw India grab their first points in the ICC Men's World Cup Super League table.
The win at Edgbaston was not the first time an Indian team had vanquished Pakistan in an ICC competition. Rajneesh Gupta surveys the landscape of India-Pakistan encounters in ICC contests.
The Headlingley triumph marked the start of a new and important chapter in Indian cricket, with the Indians winning consistently away from home from that point onwards.
Images from the opening ODI between Australia and India at the WACA, Perth, on Tuesday.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni averages 100-plus in ODIs at M A Chidambaram stadium in Chennai -- his tally being 401 in six innings, including two hundreds and a fifty, at an average of 100.25.
Delhi-born Shikhar Dhawan calls a leafy Melbourne suburb home for much of the year but on Sunday might have thought he was back in India when feted by a blue-clad horde of fans for a match-winning World Cup ton at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
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Skipper Rohit Sharma rose to the occasion when it mattered most as his record breaking third double hundred guided India to a series-levelling 141-run win against Sri Lanka in the second ODI in Mohali on Wednesday.
Statistician Rajneesh Gupta has interesting numbers from the first ODI between India and Australia the match. Check them out.
Rohit Sharma blasted a record-breaking 209, including a world record 16 sixes, which propelled India to a 57-run victory over Australia in the seventh and final One-Day International.
'The one thing that a cricketer aspires for is earning the respect of the dressing room and that respect is earned only when any player puts his hand up in adverse conditions and does his job for the team.'
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