Australia will beat India in T20 World Cup final, predicts Ponting

World Cup to lift the trophy, predicted two-time World Cup winning skipper Ricky Ponting. The 47-year-old has picked India and Australia as the finalists at the showpiece. The T20 World Cup is scheduled to be held in October and November later this year Down Under. "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 said during the latest episode of The ICC Review. "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.

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"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." England white-ball coach Matthew Mott has a superb record with Australia's women's team and Ponting feels the English team too will be in the reckoning at the showpiece event. "I actually think England are an outstanding white-ball team and they have an outstanding white-ball set-up," Ponting said. "I just think the three teams on paper that look to have the most class and the most match-winners are India, Australia and England." The