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Dubai,16 March\u0964<\/strong> Former England skipper Michael Vaughan has tipped the West Indies to win the World T20 cricket tournament, despite hosts India being regarded as the favourites.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Vaughan’s prediction comes as the Caribbean side prepares to take-on England in their opening Group Match on Wednesday in Mumbai, reports CMC.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

"The team that doesn’t get mentioned that much is the West Indies," Vaughan was quoted as saying by Gulf News on Tuesday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

"But if you look at their squad, eight of them are regular IPL players; they’ve got a huge amount of power all the way down and bit of mystery about them as well."<\/p>\r\n\r\n

The Windies, who dazzled the cricket world in 2012 to win the T20 World Cup, also qualified for the semi-finals in 2009 and 2014.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

The England skipper says the number of T20 stars in the Windies line-up makes them a dangerous side to play against.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

“They’ve got a good leg spinner in Samuel Badree, Sulieman Benn as left arm, Dwayne Bravo, Andre Russell, Darren Sammy, Jason Holder, then you’ve got the Gayle force [Chris Gayle] at the top of the order and Marlon Samuels as well,” he said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

“They’ve got some real quality in that team and they look to me that on any given day they could have a run and they’ve won it before”.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

The West Indies have been languishing at the bottom of the test table in the International Cricket Council's (ICC) rankings.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

However, they are entering the T20 World Cup as the number two team in the ICC rankings after a brief stint as number one, earlier this year.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

“They seem to get life when they play T20, it’s like their bread and butter at the minute. The Tests are going in a different fashion and they are having all sorts of fallouts with the administrators but as soon as they play T20, they have a bit of life,” Vaughan pointed out.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

“If it’s not India (favourites and hosts), then I’ve got a funny feeling the West Indies might do it.”<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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