Statsguru: Six charts show India's better showing at Cricket World Cups

India's most successful captains have all led after the turn of the millennium

India’s track record shows a steady improvement ahead of its 13th One-Day International (ODI) Cricket  World Cup.

It wins more matches and scores more runs than it did when it first lifted the cup in 1983, shows an analysis of data from tracker ESPNcricinfo. Incidentally, this is also the first time in cricketing history that the West Indies, the champion team it once defeated as the underdog 40 years ago, has not qualified. India has been notching up more wins for every loss it experi­e­­nced at the highest ODI cricket tournament. Its win­/loss ratio was close to 1.0 when it