India, Australia, England or Pakistan? Jos Buttler picks his favourites for T20 World Cup

England captain Jos Buttler has revealed name of team he thinks could win upcoming edition of T20 World Cup in Australia. While speaking at pre-tournament press conference, Buttler picked defending champions Australia as favourites to win marquee ICC event. England skipper believes that Australia will have an vant over or teams because tournament is being held in ir country. 

"T20 is one of those games that can be unpredictable, but I think history tells you that, generally, host nation are slight favourites in big tournaments. Many of us have travelled and played in Australia and kw conditions, but of course -one is going to kw conditions or be as accustomed to m as Australian team. y are also reigning champions, so you have to pick m out probably as favourites for tournaments," Buttler said.

England recently defeated Australia in ir three-match T20I series by 2-0. Earlier, Australia went down 2-1 against India in a bilateral T20I series played away from home. Australia still has a few things to figure out before y he into upcoming T20 World Cup, including ir opening pair. Australia has two warm-up games scheduled before y officially kickstart ir World Cup campaign and Aaron Finch-led side will look to dress all ir concerns in those matches. 

Australia's squ for T20 World Cup: Aaron Finch (c), Ashton Agar, Pat Cummins, Tim David, Josh Hazlewood, Josh Inglis, Mitchell Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, Kane Richardson, Steven Smith, Mitchell Starc, Marcus Stoinis, Matw We, David Warner, am Zampa.

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Meanwhile, India, England, and Pakistan are also favourites going into T20 World Cup. While India are world's . 1 ranked T20I side at moment, England and Pakistan are in good form when it comes to shortest format of game. India and Pakistan are in same group for main event of tournament, whereas England are in Group A with Australia, Afghanistan, and New Zealand.

T20 World Cup is scheduled to begin with qualifier round on October 16. India are slated to kickstart ir campaign against arch-rivals Pakistan on October 23. 

Im: AP