Let's be honest right from the front. Cricket Australia doesn't really like Twenty20 International cricket. For a sporting body that prides itself on meticulous preparation, how can it only schedule one match in 2015 and have three trial matches before it selects the World T20 squad?
Cricket Australia must be kidding itself if it honestly thinks it will win the World T20 by playing seven T20 Internationals over the past 17 months. Do we really take T20 International cricket seriously? I have always felt that it thought that T20 cricket should be played at domestic level. 
Australia's record in World T20 tournaments is not great. We have played in five, coming second once and third twice. Obviously not good enough by Australian standards.
Playing international T20 cricket is far different to playing a game for the Melbourne Stars or Sydney Thunder in the domestic Big Bash League. Our administrators must know that playing a T20 International is a step up in standard from the BBL and it should be treated as such.
For me, the lack of interest in T20 internationals was no more evident than when Aaron Finch was sacked as captain. Normally, when an Australian captain is replaced it's big news, but there was hardly a ripple throughout our cricketing community when it happened. Nor was there much support for Finch from the public or the media, even though his record had been very good over his last seven matches.
The team's T20 record, though, has been dreadful. We have won just four games from our past 12. Our record since the last World T20 is forgettable, with a win-loss ratio of 38 per cent. So either we don't like playing it and therefore don't schedule many games, or we still don't get it and what's needed to be successful.
This Australian T20 team better get its house in order ASAP. Like in Test cricket and one-day internationals, T20 cricket needs specialists to do specialist things. We appear to have no clue on what our top order is going to be like.
We also seem to have no clue who our death bowlers are. And herein lies our biggest problem, our bowling. Great T20 teams are based around great defensive bowling units. This is why I am so worried about Australia's hopes on winning the tournament. We need to find the right balance of six bowlers with some variety of pace and spin. Our attack lacks penetration and this is where Mitchell Starc is such a big loss. There seems to have a sameness to our attack. Josh Hazlewood, Mitch Marsh, John Hastings, Shane Watson, Andrew Tye and Nathan Coulter-Nile bowl similarly and thus can be targeted easily.
What happens if one or two bowlers get smashed in the power play? Do we have a spinner who can bowl with the new ball? Since 2010, spinners have averaged 23.73 a wicket at an economy rate of 6.52 in the power plays, compared to 28.20 and an economy rate of 7.16 for the seamers.
To play well in India, I believe you need to take wickets early in the power plays to put pressure on middle-order batsmen. You can understand my doubts with our bowlers when Hazlewood didn't play in the BBL5, so his skills are still unproven in T20 cricket. His record in power plays in all BBLs is 4-163 from 21 overs. Coulter-Nile's record is OK, but who else have we got? I still think Shaun Tait, and his express pace, would have been a better option as he bowled quite well in the Pakistan Super League.
James Faulkner will probably play, but his bowling over the whole summer was terrible. Virat Kohli ate him for dinner in the one-day internationals and he got smashed in his last two T20s, going for 1-43 and 0-35 off three overs. Our spin bowling is also very questionable. We have leg-spinner Adam Zampa and part-timer Glenn Maxwell. I feel we need two specialist spinners to bowl at least eight overs in India as Maxwell is not likely to bowl four overs. Ashton Agar, who has been selected, only bowled nine overs in BBL5, not what you want from a front-line spinner.
We all know that anything can happen in T20 cricket. That is the fun part of it, the unknown. I think India will make the final, but for Australia to get there it will come down to our bowling and how our batsmen plays the spinners.
Steve Smith and Maxwell are our best players of spin but our record of playing spin in India has been atrocious. I still feel our selectors got the balance wrong. My best T20 team would have been: David Warner, Usman Khawaja, Watson, Smith, Maxwell, George Bailey, Peter Nevill, Hastings, Coulter-Nile, Zampa, Tait.
If we had a turning pitch, I would drop Tait or Coulter-Nile for Agar. Faulkner needs to improve his bowling to hold his spot in the team. If he finds some form in South Africa, then he could be swapped for Hastings. I would lean towards Hastings as he was one of our best bowlers in limited-over formats over the summer.
I am not expecting big things from our Australian T20 squad. We are still getting the basics wrong or our selections wrong. For example, selecting bowlers who love bowling at the death. Like knowing more about the opposition than the opposition knows about itself. What are the release shots for batsmen and what are the go-to deliveries bowlers use when under pressure? Until we know those little things, we will not improve as a team.
AUSTRALIA AT
THE WORLD T20
2007 Beaten semi-finalists
2009 Eliminated group stage
2010 Beaten finalists
2012 Beaten semi-finalists
2014 Eliminated Super 10 stage