T20 World Cup 2022: Who Are The Favorites To Win?

Last Updated on November 4, 2022 by Andrew

There are 16 teams that would be competing in the T20 World Cup 2022, and people are just eager for the games to start considering that everyone just wants to cheer for their national team and hope that they would bring home the best trophy in the world. 

There are teams that would be competing for the first place, and the thing is, every single team that’s competing this year is capable of winning it, leaving us with the question “who are the favorites to win?”.

If you’re one of the many that is wondering who is the favorite to win the T20 ICC World Cup, you came to the right place because in this blog we have listed down some of the most capable ones of winning.  

Previous Winners Of The T20 ICC World Cup

Here is a list of the previous winners of the T20 ICC World Cup: 

 

Year Winners Runners Up Player of the Series Top Run Scorer Highest Wicket Taker Venue
2022 To Be Announced  To Be Announced  To Be Announced  To Be Announced  To Be Announced  Australia
2021 Australia New Zealand Not Known Babar Azam Wanindu Hasaranga Oman & UAE
2016 West Indies England Virat Kohli Tamim Iqbal Mohammad Nabi India
2014 Sri Lanka India Virat Kohli Virat Kohli Ahsan Malik and Imran Tahir Bangladesh
2012 West Indies Sri Lanka Shane Watson Shane Watson Ajantha Mendis Sri Lanka
2010 England Australia Kevin Pietersen Mahela Jayawardene Dirk Nannes West Indies
2009 Pakistan Sri Lanka Tillakaratne Dilshan Tillakaratne Dilshan Umar Gul England
2007 India Pakistan Shahid Afridi Matthew Hayden Umar Gul South Africa

 

Teams Competing In The T20 World Cup

Here is a list of the teams that are competing in the T20 World Cup:

  • AUSTRALIA 
  • ENGLAND 
  • INDIA
  • NEW ZEALAND 
  • PAKISTAN 
  • SOUTH AFRICA 
  • SRI LANKA 
  • WEST INDIES 
  • ZIMBABWE 
  • BANGLADESH 
  • NETHERLANDS 
  • SCOTLAND 
  • UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 
  • NAMIBIA
  • IRELAND 
  • AFGHANISTAN 

T20 ICC World Cup 2022: Full Player List For All Teams

If you are wondering who would be playing for the 16 teams that are competing in the T20 ICC World Cup 2022, you came to the right place. Below, we have listed down all the players that are playing in the T20 ICC World Cup 22: 

Team Australia

Aaron Finch (c), Pat Cummins (vc), Ashton Agar, Tim David, Josh Hazlewood, Josh Inglis (injured, replaced by Cameron Green), Mitch Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, Kane Richardson, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Marcus Stoinis, Matthew Wade, David Warner, and Adam Zampa

Reserves For Australia: No List Announced 

Team Afghanistan

Mohammad Nabi (c), Najibullah Zadran (vc), Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Azmatullah Omarzai, Darwish Rasooli, Farid Ahmad Malik, Fazal Haq Farooqi, Hazratullah Zazai, Ibrahim Zadran, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Naveen ul Haq, Qais Ahmad, Rashid Khan, Salim Safi, and Usman Ghani

Reserves For Afghanistan: Afsar Zazai, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Rahmat Shah, Gulbadin Naib

Team Bangladesh

Shakib Al Hasan (c), Soumya Sarkar, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Afif Hossain, Mossadek Hossain, Liton Das, Yasir Ali, Nurul Hasan, Mustafizur Rahman, Shoriful Islam, Taskin Ahmed, Ebadot Hossain, Hasan Mahmud, Najmul Hossain, and Nasum Ahmed

Reserves For Bangladesh: No List Announced 

Team England

Jos Buttler (c), Moeen Ali, Harry Brook, Sam Curran, Alex Hales, Chris Jordan, Liam Livingstone, Dawid Malan, Adil Rashid, Phil Salt, Ben Stokes, Reece Topley (injured, replaced by Tymal Mills), David Willey, Chris Woakes, and Mark Wood

Reserves For England: Richard Gleeson, Liam Dawson, Luke Wood

Team India

Rohit Sharma (c), KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Rishabh Pant, Dinesh Karthik, Hardik Pandya, Ravichandran Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Jasprit Bumrah (injured), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel, and Arshdeep Singh

Reserves For India: Mohammed Shami, Shreyas Iyer, Ravi Bishnoi, Deepak Chahar

Team Ireland

Andrew Balbirnie (c), Paul Stirling (vc), Mark Adair, Curtis Campher, Gareth Delany, George Dockrell, Stephen Doheny, Fionn Hand, Josh Little, Barry McCarthy, Conor Olphert, Simi Singh, Harry Tector, Lorcan Tucker, and Craig Young (injured, replaced by Graham Hume)

Reserves For Ireland: No List Announced 

Team Namibia

Gerhard Erasmus (c), JJ Smit, Divan la Cock, Stephen Baard, Nicol Loftie Eaton, Jan Frylinck, David Wiese, Ruben Trumpelmann, Zane Green, Bernard Scholtz, Tangeni Lungameni, Michael van Lingen, Ben Shikongo, Karl Birkenstock, Lohan Louwrens, and Helao Ya France

Reserves For Namibia: No List Announced 

Team Netherlands

Colin Ackermann, Shariz Ahmad, Logan van Beek, Tom Cooper, Scott Edwards (c) Brandon Glover, Timm van der Gugten, Fred Klaassen, Bas de Leede, Paul van Meekeren, Roelof van der Merwe, Stephan Myburgh, Teja Nidamanuru, Max O’Dowd, Tim Pringle, and Vikram Singh

Reserves For Netherlands: No List Announced 

Team New Zealand

Kane Williamson (c), Tim Southee, Ish Sodhi, Mitchell Santner, Glenn Phillips, Jimmy Neesham, Daryl Mitchell, Adam Milne, Martin Guptill, Lachlan Ferguson, Devon Conway, Mark Chapman, Michael Bracewell, Trent Boult, and Finn Allen

Reserves For New Zealand: No List Announced 

Team Pakistan

Babar Azam (c), Shadab Khan (vc), Asif Ali, Haider Ali, Haris Rauf, Iftikhar Ahmed, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Hasnain, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Rizwan, Mohammad Wasim Junior, Naseem Shah, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Shan Masood, and Fakhar Zaman (injured, replaced by Mohammad Haris)

Reserves For Pakistan: Usman Qadir, Shahnawaz Dahani

Team Scotland

Richard Berrington (c), George Munsey, Michael Leask, Bradley Wheal, Chris Sole, Chris Greaves, Safyaan Sharif, Josh Davey, Matthew Cross, Calum MacLeod, Hamza Tahir, Mark Watt, Brandon McMullen, Michael Jones, and Craig Wallace

Reserves For Scotland: No List Announced 

Team South Africa

Temba Bavuma (c), Quinton de Kock, Reeza Hendricks, Heinrich Klaasen, Keshav Maharaj, Aiden Markram, David Miller, Lungi Ngidi, Anrich Nortje, Dwaine Pretorius (injured, replaced by Marco Jansen), Kagiso Rabada, Rilee Rossouw, Tabraiz Shamsi, and Tristan Stubbs

Reserves For South Africa: Bjorn Fortuin, Andile Phehlukwayo, and Lizaad Williams

Team Sri Lanka

Dasun Shanaka (c), Danushka Gunathilaka (injured, replaced by Ashen Bandara), Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Mendis, Charith Asalanka, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Dhananjaya de Silva, Wanindu Hasaranga, Maheesh Theekshana, Jeffrey Vandersay, Chamika Karunaratne, Dushmantha Chameera (injured, replaced by Kasun Rajitha), Lahiru Kumara (subject to fitness), Dilshan Madushanka (injured, replaced by Binura Fernando – injured, replaced by Asitha Fernando), and Pramod Madushan

Reserves for Sri Lanka: Praveen Jayawickrema, Dinesh Chandimal, Nuwanidu Fernando, Asitha Fernando, Matheesha Pathirana, Niroshan Dickwella

Team UAE

CP Rizwan (c), Vriitya Aravind (vc), Chirag Suri, Muhammad Waseem, Basil Hameed, Aryan Lakra, Zawar Farid (injured, replaced by Fahad Nawaz), Kashif Daud, Karthik Meiyappan, Ahmed Raza, Zahoor Khan, Junaid Siddique, Sabir Ali, Alishan Sharafu, and Aayan Khan

Reserves For UAE: Sultan Ahmed, Vishnu Sukumaran, Adithya Shetty, Sanchit Sharma

Team West Indies

Nicholas Pooran (C), Rovman Powell, Yannic Cariah, Johnson Charles, Sheldon Cottrell, Shimron Hetmyer (replaced by Shamarh Brooks), Jason Holder, Akeal Hosein, Alzarri Joseph, Brandon King, Evin Lewis, Kyle Mayers, Obed McCoy, Raymon Reifer, and Odean Smith

Reserves For West Indies: No List Announced 

Team Zimbabwe

Craig Ervine (c), Ryan Burl, Regis Chakabva, Tendai Chatara, Bradley Evans, Luke Jongwe, Clive Madande, Wessly Madhevere, Wellington Masakadza, Tony Munyonga, Blessing Muzarabani, Richard Ngarava, Sikandar Raza, Milton Shumba, and Sean Williams

Reserves For Zimbabwe: Tanaka Chivanga, Innocent Kaia, Kevin Kasuza, Tadiwanashe Marumani, Victor Nyauchi

Who Are The Favorites To Win The T20 ICC World Cup? 

With the amount of talent that’s present on all teams right now, it’s hard to predict who would be winning the T20 ICC World Cup, however what we can do is list down the favorites to win this title because of the amount of talent that they have. 

Currently, we believe that India is the team that would be winning the T20 ICC World Cup. The amount of talent that they have on their team and the way that they have been playing in the World Cup shows a lot of potential that they could possibly win it all this November in Australia. 

For who would they be competing against for the finals in the T20 ICC World Cup, we think it would be against Australia, Sri Lanka, New Zealand or Pakistan. The way these teams have been playing shows a lot of potential that they could go toe to toe against the best ones in the game. 

Who do you think will win the T20 ICC World Cup? Let us know who you think would win by leaving a comment in the comments section below! 

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