India's cricket captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, believes the Indian Premier League has helped his players find form ahead of their World Twenty20 title defence.
India won the inaugural World Twenty20 two years ago in South Africa and Dhoni thinks his side, helped by their IPL experience, have a great chance of repeating that success.He said: "Here we have plenty of options and we have the cream of the IPL so there is less pressure on each and every individual.The best thing is that our youngsters will know how to handle pressure, when in the last over you need 10 or 15 runs, everyone in our side has faced that situation."It's good exposure for our guys to play against guys like Brett Lee and Shane Warne."The majority of IPL players are from India, but Dhoni - who captains the Chennai Super Kings - is aware that it is not just them that will benefit from the competition."The IPL will help us but not only us. There are quite a few players from other countries."India get their World Twenty20 defence underway against Bangladesh on Saturday.The tournament itself begins on Friday at Lords when England play the Netherlands.
Source; skynews.com
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