Morgan rates India favourites in otherwise 'open' World T20

Echoing the majority view, England's limited over skipper Eoin Morgan today rated India as the favourites to lift the ICC Twenty20, but said other than the hosts most teams had an even chance to win the title.
"I think the favourites for the tournament is India. Simply because they are very good in home conditions and they had a rich run of form lately. But outside of that it's a very open tournament," said the 29-year-old Dublin-born hard-hitting batsman at the pre-tournament media conference here.
England, winners of the title once (in 2010) before in its history, are pooled together in Group 1 with Sri Lanka, South Africa and West Indies, plus a qualifier from the first round which commenced yesterday.

Morgan, who led England's disastrous campaign in the 2015 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, said the team has come along nicely and had a lot of players who can turn around the match.
"We are reasonably confident. Within the group there's a lot of talent and match-winners. It (winning run) did not necessarily happen in South Africa (on their recent tour in which they lost T20 rubber 0-2 and the ODI series 2-3). But we are positive which is very good coming into this tournament. He pointed out the fact that the team had scored in excess of 300 six times in recently in ODIs as a pointer to its aggressive intent of late.

"I would say yes. It's been the most expressive for a long time. It's evident with the significant totals we have put on board with the bat.

"We have scored 350 twice and definitely chased it down once. We have scored over 300 six consecutive times which is a huge step for us. We scored 400 once. It's no coincidence. We have a lot of talent in our side. We encourage our players to be as brash and aggressive as they can and take the game to the opposition."
He said the turnaround happened with the shock loss to Bangladesh exactly one year ago in the ICC Cricket World Cup that sent them homewards.

"As a whole trip it was a huge learning curve for me, particularly as captain. Having gone through such significant lows and down period in your career, it makes you enjoy any success you have down the line. It was a good learning curve in the turn-around.