{"id":7942,"date":"2012-06-28T08:11:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T08:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=7942"},"modified":"2012-06-28T08:11:03","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T08:11:03","slug":"watson-believes-windies-will-be-key-contenders-in-icc-world-twenty20-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=7942","title":{"rendered":"Watson believes Windies will be key contenders in ICC World Twenty20 Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dubai: <\/strong>Australia all-rounder Shane Watson has named the West Indies as the team to beat at the ICC World Twenty20 Sri Lanka 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to ICC Cricket 360\u00b0\u2122, the ICC\u2019s new weekly multi-platform show, produced by IMG, part of IMG Worldwide, Watson believes Darren Sammy\u2019s side\u2019s all-round strength makes it the favourite for the event in Sri Lanka in September.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI actually think the West Indies are going to be the team to beat. They have got a really well balanced team that has played a lot of high quality Twenty20 cricket around the world and they certainly know how to perform under pressure. I think they have got the firepower to give a lot of teams a big surprise,\u201d says Watson.<\/p>\n<p>However, Watson thinks the experience gained by Australia\u2019s players in domestic Twenty20 competitions across the globe, means his side may be able to go one better than its runners-up spot at the 2010 event in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a format in which we still haven\u2019t been able to play well consistently against other countries in the world. We made the final in the last ICC World Twenty20 in the West Indies and in the end we were pipped by England but since then we haven\u2019t played consistently well, so we are really going to have to step up our Twenty20 game. With a change in players and the experience of playing in different Twenty20 leagues, it means hopefully we can step up when we really need to,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Watson, who provides viewers with a tour of the Sydney Cricket Ground in the latest edition of the ICC Cricket 360\u00b0\u2122 show, admits his excitement about the upcoming ODI series against England that begins on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is going to be a huge series. It is a great lead-in to next year\u2019s Ashes and there is no doubt we have to be at our absolute best for that one-day series so our preparation is going to be very important, as is the way we perform. It is the first time for us with a slightly newer group of cricketers, a new coach Mickey Arthur and a new structure around us,\u201d says Watson.<\/p>\n<p>Watson, who missed much of the Australian summer through injury, is hopeful that he is now over the string of injury problems that have afflicted his career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve learnt a lot about the way I am going to get the best out of myself as an all-rounder, about my bowling workload and what my body can do. I am trying to find the best ways to give myself the best chance of not getting injured\u201d says Watson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the three months during the summer when I was injured, I learnt a lot and I have put a few things in place again to make sure that I am doing everything I can to give myself the best chance I can of staying fit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai: Australia all-rounder Shane Watson has named the West Indies as the team to beat at the ICC World Twenty20 Sri Lanka 2012. Speaking to ICC Cricket 360\u00b0\u2122, the ICC\u2019s new weekly multi-platform show, produced by IMG, part of IMG Worldwide, Watson believes Darren Sammy\u2019s side\u2019s all-round strength makes it the favourite for the event [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[2602,1174],"class_list":["post-7942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-isn-front-stories","tag-icc-world-twenty20","tag-shane-watson"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Watson believes Windies will be key contenders in ICC World Twenty20 Cup - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=7942\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Watson believes Windies will be key contenders in ICC World Twenty20 Cup - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dubai: Australia all-rounder Shane Watson has named the West Indies as the team to beat at the ICC World Twenty20 Sri Lanka 2012. 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