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Another thing to be aware of is that when two answer choices have only a single word changing between them, one of those choices is often likely to be correct. Of course in this case, the collective noun team requires the singular verb was, so the correct choice is B.
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why not A ?
sometimes we do consider were in the hypothetical situations.
can someone tell me where do we use "were" in such situations and where do we use "was" ?
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IMO, this is not a hypothetical situation.

Also, the Indian team is a collective noun and each collective noun must use a singular verb.(Already stressed by other members before). Also as per my knowledge, hypothetical situations do not require were, though I am not certain!

Were is the plural form of the verb 'was' which is correctly used to describe the Indian Team.

Option B is the correct answer.
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION

(A) Though a team is made up of more than one person, "team" is a collective noun, which means "were" does not match the singular subject of the sentence, so we can eliminate (A) as an option.
(B) corrects this problem and creates a clearly comprehensible sentence; we'll keep it in mind as a possible answer.
(C)What does it mean to be "like the best cricket team"? We don't know, and that makes C a bad choice.
(D) does not create an independent clause before the semicolon, which makes it grammatically incorrect.
(E) uses an unclear "they"; who is this "they"? Since we don't know, we know that it's not our best option
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The correct answer is Choice (B).
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