South Africa captain Graeme Smith believes his team are in ideal shape to challenge for the ICC World T20 title.

The Proteas are the world's top-rated team in one-day internationals, and have claimed Test series victories on foreign soil against England and Australia in the past year.

Smith, whose team's campaign begins against Scotland at The Oval on June 7, would relish lifting the trophy at Lord's on June 21.

He said: "We have had a wonderful past 12 months which has included winning away Test series in both England and Australia and winning home and away ODI series against Australia to gain top spot in the Reliance Mobile ICC world rankings.

"One of the boxes we still want to tick is to win a major ICC championship and we have two chances to do that in the ICC World T20 next month and again in the ICC Champions Trophy which will be held in South Africa at the end of September.

"I have been very happy with the form our players have shown in the Indian Premier League in the run-up to the ICC World T20 and this augurs well for a good performance."

Coach Mickey Arthur is confident his team has the make-up required to be successful in the sport's shortest format.

Arthur said: "We should be able to put a team in the field that has 10 batsmen and seven bowlers at any time."