Lee: India favourites to win tournament

Former Australia pacer Brett Lee reckons that India are the favourites to win the ongoing ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.

India will open its T20 World Cup campaign against Pakistan on October 24 in Dubai. Lee has also picked KL Rahul as the top run-scorer of the tournament, while he also picked Mohammad Shami as the leading wicket-taker. “But saying that, I think India are probably the favourites with their top four or five batters and their bowling attack.

I have KL Rahul down as the top run-scorer in the tournament and Mohammad Shami to be the leading wicket-taker, purely going on the last few months. So if they deliver and India have one of the leading run-scorers and wicket-takers, it’s a good start,” Lee wrote in his column for International Cricket Council. “But I’m confident Australia can do it and it all starts against South Africa,” he added.