Team India’s strongest chance of lifting the T20 title – Opinion
With the International Cricket Council (http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625) T20 Championship just around the corner, team India seem to be the top favourites to lift the mega title this year, because of their recent resurgence in the limited overs format.
If India manage to live up to expectations, this would be their second T20 Champions belt, after they won the inaugural tournament.
Why team India this year? Well because they are the reigning one-day champions, they are also unstoppable in the subcontinent and the mega event being organized in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 adds more value to the fact the India is going to be a team to watch out for this
year.
Then there is the heavy duty batting line-up of the Indian team which is extremely difficult to penetrate. The batting is equally backed by some staggering fielders in the team, who can squeeze the flow of runs anytime in the game, especially in the death
overs, as these fielders have proved their mettle.
And with the calm and collected http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028 at the realms of captaincy, the Indians have grown accustomed to dealing with difficult situations in a match.
Above all, the superb form of youngsters http://www.senore.com/Cricket/V-Kohli-c2737 is India’s biggest plus going into the mega event.
Raina and Kohli dismantled hosts Sri Lanka in the recently concluded ODI series, which was comprehensively won by the Indians.
If the Blues carry their form and fitness into the T20 Championship, they are destined to wreak havoc upon other nations.
While India’s bowling might be a tad compromised, but their batting makes up for this loss. This is something Dhoni XI would keep in mind when they go against the rest of the world.
The recent rise of India has come after the side suffered a terrible time against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 where the Blues failed to win a single match against the
mighty Australians.
These losses left the world champions devastated, and officials at home were up in arms calling for an immediate sacking of Dhoni for leading his side to doom.
However, sense prevailed in the Board of Control for Cricket in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 (BCCI) that prevented the departure of Dhoni.
Australia and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 are India’s biggest challengers in the T20 Championship, and in order to lift the cup for the second time, the Indians need to be wary of the Australian and South African threat.
The defending champions, England, cannot be written off either, however, with their domestic problems regarding http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KP-Pietersen-c1806 gaining strength, they might be a bit distracted in the tournament, which could cost them their cherished titled.
On the other hand, India’s arch nemesis http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 would be looking to avenge the Asia Cup 2012 defeat, and although Pakistani contingent is not looking threatening enough, but they are an unpredictable side that can always ruin any team’s tournament.
Nonetheless, the Dhoni lead contingent seems all set to take on the world and the return of flamboyant all-rounder, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yuvraj-Singh-c98364 – who is has recovered from a cancer treatment – would give India a big boost in all the departments, encouraging the youngsters
to go all out against the mightiest of teams this September.
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