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Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting believes India and Australia will reach the final of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup and predicted the host nation will win the title.

The 47-year-old has spent time as an assistant of the Australian team under Justin Langer, and been head coach of Delhi Capitals in the IPL. However, he admitted that luck is required to win a major ICC trophy.

"I think India and Australia will be the two playing in the final and I will just have to say that Australia will beat them in the final," Ponting said on the latest episode of The ICC Review.

"The reigning champions have got home conditions and that was one thing that made Australia's win in the last World Cup, not remarkable, but that little bit sweeter for them,"

"The fact that a lot of people, me included, thought when they went to UAE, the conditions that they were going to have to face on the back of the IPL, I thought the conditions might have been the thing that might not have allowed them to win it, but they found a way,"

Ponting lauded the England Test coach Brendon McCullum, he also opined that how capable new England white-ball coach Matthew Mott is and has given his superb record with Australia's women's team. 

"I actually think England are an outstanding white-ball team and they have an outstanding white-ball setup," Ponting said.