> Sachin and England

Have you ever felt out of your depth on a cricket field because the opposition was overwhelmingly superior in terms of runs under their belts, wickets in the kitty and sheer number of matches played? Several of the teams currently in the Caribbean will feel like that too. This week's List compares the cumulative runs, wickets and averages of each of the World Cup squads.

India's World Cup squad may have some deficiencies but lack of experience is certainly not one of them. There are five countries in the World Cup for which, if you add up all the ODIs played by their squad members, the cumulative figure is still less than the number of games under Sachin Tendulkar's belt. Tendulkar, Dravid and Sourav Ganguly add up to 35297 runs and the trio would rank just above Australia in our table.

England will be high on confidence after their tri-series win at the end of a long Australian summer but their World Cup squad is full of fledglings. All their batsmen put together have 13737 runs between them, well short of Tendulkar's one-day tally. Their players have played fewer matches and their bowlers have taken fewer wickets than the Bangladesh squad.