The key lies in the bowling department:

Before the Indian team departed for the West Indies to participate at the World Twenty20, the skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni commented that the bowling department is India's strongest.

The two major bowlers in the DLF IPL, Amit Mishra and Pragyan Ojha have been left out while Piyush Chawla has been picked in place of them.

Mumbai Indians reached the finals of the DLF IPL and their successful run has to be attributed to the spinner Harbhajan Singh's form. He is the third highest wicket taker in the tournament with 17 scalps from just 15 innings.

The main strike bowler Zaheer Khan participated in 14 games and took 15 wickets. He was the one who held his nerve and bowled brilliantly.

Banglore Royal Challenger's Vinay Kumar was handed his first Indian Cap attributing to his amazing form in the IPL.

He was exceptional in bowling with variation in pace and length. He is the fifth leading wicket taker with 16 scalp s. He led the standing for the first half of the tournament.

His counterpart in the Banglore team, Praveen Kumar was amazing too. He is well known and feared for his in swingers.

Piyush Chawla who got selected ahead of other spinners has to prove his worth. He took 12 wickets in the 14 matches he played.

Ravindra Jadeja and Aashish Nehra missed most of the IPL tournament and they will be fresh.

Mahendra Dhoni will have to use a lot of part time spinners namely Rohit Sharma, Yuvraj Singh, Yusuf Pathan and Suresh Raina.

Dhoni, the captain of the Chennai Super Kings who won the IPL used Raina as a specialist in breaking partnerships.

Dhoni did not refuse to the strategy of using either Yusuf Pathan or Harbhajan Singh as opening bowlers.

There is some woe in the batting department. Virender Sehwag got injured while Yuvraj Singh and Gautam Gambhir are struggling for form. Mahendra Dhoni himself missed quite a lot of games.

If anyone is in top class form, it has to be Raina. The south-paw scored a massive 520 runs in just 16 IPL games with an average over 140.

His Chennai counterpart Murali Vijay raised a few eye brows with his hitting. He scored 450 plus runs in 15 games.

Dinesh Karthik and Rohit Sharma too had some success in the IPL but they lacked consistency.

Yusuf Pathan has an average tournament scoring 333 runs in 14 matches which included a massive century. Nevertheless he has a strike rate of 165.67 which would be useful in this format of the game.