Imran's Promotion Up The Order in 1992

Imran gets a lot of credit for promoting himself up the order in 1992.

However, had Inzamam not played a once in a lifetime type innings in Eden Park during the semi final, the same people would have questioned why he sent himself at 3 when he was badly out of form in the competition?

Imran in the 1992 World Cup Semi: 44 from 93 balls chasing 250+

Inzamam in the 1992 World Cup semi: 60 from 37 balls 

Without Inzamam, would it have been the same result? Highly unlikely. In fact, definitely no. 

Easier to give credit in hindsight.

Imran set up the innings, but Misbah detractors would never give credit for that unless they are being hypocritical as they'd never say the same about Misbah. 

Eden Park 14th March 2015

On this day next year India play Zimbabwe at Eden Park. I am not ruling out the defending champions posting a record target here. They have a destructive and mightily talented batting line up against lesser bowling, short boundaries and the possibility of needing to score their runs quicker because of NRR with this being the final group game they play from Group B. I feel group B is marginally the easier group of the two, though there is not much to pick between the two.