India enters the competition as the favourite. It should be able to go all the way.
India has the firepower to triumph in the ICC World Twenty20 Championship if the conditions do not include seaming tracks. Considering the host’s matches are going to be played either on flat tracks or on sluggish surfaces favouring spinners, M. S. Dhoni’s men have a wonderful opportunity of emerging victorious.
On batsman-friendly tracks, the Indian batsmen are destructive. They can, with a long line-up packed with powerful hitters, put the total beyond the reach of the opposition or chase down daunting targets. The same line-up can be extremely vulnerable on pitches with seam movement and bounce, as one saw recently in Pune when India succumbed to a second string Sri Lankan side.
India, Though, has been largely having its way in recent times. Even on the tour of Australia this year, the tracks for the three-match Twenty20 series were so flat that it was difficult to comprehend that the games were being held down under. But even on tracks excessively favouring batsmen, a side requires bowling to see it through tough games and it is here that several pieces have fallen in place for the Indian team.
The emergence of Jasprit Bumrah, a lanky bowler of sharp pace and incisive yorkers, has given the Indian attack the cutting edge at the death. For long, Indian pacemen were unable to deliver well directed yorkers when it mattered.
There is no better wicket-taking delivery in Twenty20 cricket. And Bumrah unleashes this ball with precision, sending down yorkers that invariably crash into the stumps, strike the batsman’s toe or the base of the bat.
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