“India, Australia will play in the final and…”- Ricky Ponting picks his finalist for T20 World Cup 2022
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Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting picked two teams which will play the final match of the upcoming T20 World Cup in Australia. India and the host Australia will be the two teams according to him and that the latter will clinch the trophy.
In 2021, Australia won their first ever T20 World Cup title. They defeated New Zealand in what was rather a one-sided match. They defeated Pakistan in the semi-finals. Pakistan were the only team to have won all their match in the Super 12 stage.
“I think India and Australia will be the two playing in the final and I will just have to say that Australia will beat them in the final,” Ponting told the ICC.
“The reigning champions have got home conditions and that was one thing that made Australia’s win in the last World Cup, not remarkable, but that little bit sweeter for them,” he added.
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Ricky Ponting’s top three teams
Ponting has also pointed out that many of them had not expected the Aaron Finch-led Australia to win the match in the previous World Cup because of the conditions in UAE. But now, since Australia will be the host, they are considered the favourites to win it.
“The fact that a lot of people, me included, thought when they went to UAE, the conditions that they were going to have to face on the back of the IPL, I thought the conditions might have been the thing that might not have allowed them to win it. But they found a way,” he added.
He then named the top three teams according to him.
“I actually think England are an outstanding white-ball team and they have an outstanding white-ball setup,” Ponting said.
“I just think the three teams on paper that look to have most class and the most match-winners are India, Australia and England.”
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