WCT20

IPL3 is over and CSK are crowned IPL3 champions, and its time for WC T20, 16 days 27 matches in the Caribbean.
This time there are 4 groups each with 3 teams, best 8 go on to Super8's followed by the best 4 to the semis, and 2 to the finals, As the 4 groups stand out more less the teams for Super 8's are on the cards with India, Aus, Pak, SL, SA, Eng, WI, NZ. Would have been more interesting and probably ICC should consider having teams like Zim, Afghan, Ireland in one group would fetch some interesting matches. Well kudos to the Afghan team for the way they have made their way to the cricketing world, we all knowof the situation going on in thier country. Well other than Bangladesh other 3 minows don't seem to have it in them to do what they term it an upset.
Moving on to the business end of the tournament i.e. the Super 8's more or less would be interesting with all teams having good composition.
Starting with the host WI, with likes of Gayle, Bravo, the big tick player Pollard and with ever conssistent C'Paul and Sarwan, the batting looks good with perfect home advantage, and the bowling with lesser known for likes of Taylor(coming back from injury), Kemar Roach, Benn.
England well they have never been like a team to be scared of in limited or test cricket. They have a lone KP and fighting PC, but thats the only 2 names which comes to my mind, yes they do have likes of Broad, Jamie, Swann(highly rated in Eng), an unkown Yardy and IPL benefitted M Lumb from RR, but would have to play out of their skins to reach the semis.
Same probably goes for SL...Mahela, Sanga, the slinger Malinga(is it his action or my eyes), the Angelic Mathews, well for SL to turn the tables, Murli and Mendis might have to be trump cards on the slow WI tracks, with much needed help from the slinger, yes a certain Jayasuriya(can I know if he plays why the hell he is kept for at no.6) but probably I feel he is good for being MP in SL.
Australia well the trade pundits seem to have their bets on them this year for the much coveted title holders, with likes of Warner, White, Watson(can get in few decent overs and is good at breaking partnerships), Clarke and the Hussey brothers have a good batting order but I feel they are more traditional whn it comes to T20 except for Warner and Watson. The Aussie pacce department would have definitely got the opp batsmen jumping if T20 was on bouncy pitches, what surprises me is they have only a 20 yrs old Steve Smith from whom much is expected in spin department. but having said that I feel they would still reach the semis.
Talking of down under for me the dark horses are this year NZ, with the bulky Ryder, technically not too bad Guptill, terrific Taylor, thinking captain Vettori, dangerous Mccullum, and their bowling also has a special Bond, young Southee, and the old Scotty Styris. They seem to be potentailly having good players, but at times they just don't come across to be as aggressive.
SA they always were never short of good players, Kallis, Smith, pace batter of Steyn, Langleveldth, or JP, AB, Boucher, Morkel brothers, but they probably get on to something after reaching the final stages, more seems to be a mental block, but than who knows might just go all the way.
Coming down to the 2 of most loved teams of cricket. India and Pakistan.
Starting with Pakistan, whatever keeps on happening in their country but they seem to have the flair for T20, First time finalist and last year Champions. This year they are still not out of the mess but are well rested and the lack of playing, adding the IPL woes, T20 might again give them the perfect meal to satisfy their hunger, but well they have BOOM BOOM as their captain, who will have to first lead by example if Paki has to make any grounds in T20, they have a decnt unit but they are as unpredictable as they have been always. They have good bowling with Asif back, and young sensation Aamer(liked his bowling is AUS), good offie in form of Saeed Ajmal, the Akmal brothers(we have quite a list of brothers in cricket). Would not be surprised if they reach semis.
Finally India well we all know we have potentailly good side with loads of talent and flair, in terms of batting and spin...pace has always been our worry. If we just play to our potentail with likes of Ms, Yuvi, Raina, Pathan, Gambhir and rest of the team, semis should not be dream.

My final 4 would be

Aus,
NZ/Pak
SA
India

All the best to the Indian crcket team.!!!!!!!