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Alec Stewart won't be astonished if the home team records a clean sweep over India in the ongoing ODI series.
"India may have begin the series as slight favorites but I wouldn't be astonished if England finish off the season with a clean sweep in all forms of the game and add this award to the growing collection," Stewart said.
In the first ODI of the five-match series last weekend, India were in the driver’s seat with England, chasing a competitive 275-run target, were totter at 27 for two before heavy showers required the match to be called off.
But Stewart was of the view that the weather conditions intervene far too early during England's innings for serious talk about the hosts being 'saved by the rain'.
"This England side has it in them to go up again after such early reverse," he said.
"After the 4-0 thrashing of India in the Test series followed by the one-off T20 victory last week, England will want to show they are also making good development in the 50-over game which for so long has be their Achilles heel," the former wicket-keeper added.
Stewart, however, has no misgivings that to record a clean sweep, England will have to play out of their skin against the the world champion Indian side.
"As England march on towards world cricket preeminence they will be severely tested by India, the current World Cup holders, all through these One Day Internationals," he wrote in his column for 'Daily Mirror'.
He insisted that having never won the World Cup, England will be desperate to break the jinx in the 2015 edition of the tournament to be co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand.
"Captain Alastair Cook is fully aware that if these groups of players want to be bracketed alongside the truly great West Indian and Australian teams of recent times then they must become more reliable in ODIs and learn what it takes to win in all conditions," Stewart said.
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