ICC World T20 (Sri Lanka 2012)

If the Australians can band together and play as well as they do, individually in the IPL, then they have an outside chance of taking this thing out. I still, for the love of God, do not understand how George Bailey was made captain and how he can even justify a spot in the side. Need to play all our T20 specialists, Watson, Warner, Nannes, etc

Agree Sam India's selection is very wrong Nohit Sharma is useless in T20 not because he is useless but because they already have 5-6 top batsman who will anyway play so what is the use of picking another batsman? instead a guy like Yousuf pathan could have been a handy option and plus like Sam said Harbhajan, Dinda, Tiwary, Balaji and Chawla all are bad choice in my view the best players were - Yousuf Pathan, Rahane , Rahul Sharma and Uthappa.

Pakistan's selection is good apart from few mistakes like not picking Junaid Khan who in my view is a wonderful death bowler specially when compare to Gul who whenever the pressure is lose his line plus even Hammad Azam not there is a silly move why are we trying to pick him one series and drop for another i mean he and Razzaq both could have played - Only bad pick is Asad who in my view is not a t20 player.

KP not picked in England's squad, that's a real shame actually, Flower and Strauss are taking this way too far, trust and mutual respect ... what the S*** are we talking about, this is modern day cricket, people say a lot of things, move on, get a life!

KP is a loss , but maybe not as bad as one might think. If he's been disruptive in the dressingroom , then best he isn't around.  In 20 over cricket just one batsman coming off can win a match and England still have lads that can do the business.
              No predictions from me as to who will win it though - it's far too much of a turkey shoot and any of 6 sides can take the trophy.

Its really difficult to predict as all the teams are good. It all depends on there indivisual players during the T20 World. If players like Gayle, Pollard, Afridi, Imran Nazir, Yuvraj, Kohli, Watson, Warner etc. gets in good form during the tournament the all can win the tournament for their team.

I have a change of mind actually, Logically thinking, and looking at the groupings, I can say...

All the top 8 teams got fire power for this format.  West Indies will either blow hot or cold, they got the biggest hitting line up of all the team with Gayle, Smith, Pollard, Bravo, Sammy, Russell.  Its too hard to call but I expect SA to choke as always.

I doubt if Australia and South Africa will be able to handle the spin challenge mystery, that is where I think they may struggle, but then again I'm only saying what I think may happen, in T20's though, it's impossible to predict things accurately.

Itn't the World T20 a bit of an overkill -  this will be the fourth World T20 in five years. In between there was only one ODI World Cu. I will be happy if my team wins - but I am not losing sleep if they crash out in the first round - quite unlike the ODI WC which keeps me more interested and worried

well I agree that it won't be anything as exciting as the ODI WC, that is altogether different, but I'll take this for the time being, as something is better than nothing. However, I certainly will midn if PAK crash out in the 1st R Zuhair, they should definitely do better than that. They will, although it is definitely the toughest group.

They will surely get hammered by Indis and England.

All set for the real magic that matters, I feel that there is going to be an upset in the tournament, and I am waiting for it, most likely group D where PAK/NZ might be knocked by BD. While in group B, I will not be surprised if Ireland spoil the party of AUS/WI (less likely) , coz if their opener Stirling gets going for 10-12 overs , then they can best the best in business.They have good bowling options. Impossible to guess though, it could be any team that could go out. I want high scoring and close games just like what IPL treated us this year.All teams are capable and looks like most of the matches will go down the wire.  

Edited by MalhotraRaj84 - 17 September 2012 at 8:05pm

For the Semi-finalists I'd go with following four to qualify - India, South Africa, West Indies, England.

Group D is indeed a tough one. BD won't go down easily. I won't be surprised if Pakistan or NZL crash out in the first round

PAK will never go down to BAN, at least not now that they've got one over India, be it the warm up, they'll play with much more freedom now.