Can England win the Men’s T20 World Cup?
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
As we reach the Super Eights stage of the Men’s T20 World Cup we look at England’s chances of lifting the trophy following an unconvincing group stage.
Simon Mann is joined by former England bowler Steven Finn, BBL winner Michael Carberry and IPL player Abhishek Jhunjhunwala plus we hear from England captain Harry Brook and vice-captain Jacob Bethell.
We also assess the chances of the other sides left in the tournament and ask if the current T20 World Cup format works.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Steve Bracknelly, are the assistant manager of Sunday League team, the Royal Oak FC. |
| 0:12.0 | Are you sick of changes to our beautiful game? |
| 0:15.0 | Five minute stoppages for VAR checks. |
| 0:17.0 | VAR, the talking point again after a five minute plus delay. |
| 0:20.0 | Cryotherapy ice chamber. |
| 0:22.9 | Olls in back at socks. |
| 0:25.3 | XG double pivots and inferred wingbacks. |
| 0:28.2 | The game's well and truly gone and I'm here to bring it back. |
| 0:31.9 | Games gone. |
| 0:32.9 | The Steve Bracknell podcast. |
| 0:34.9 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:54.4 | You're listening to the TMS podcast from BBC Radio 5 live Stephen Finn is alongside me so too is Michael Carberry Abyshevich Junjan Waller is here as well we've all watched a lot of the tournament so far who are the favour for you guys? Perhaps I'll ask a slightly different question. |
| 0:55.4 | We've got eight teams left. |
| 0:58.1 | Are there any teams left in this competition? |
| 1:03.3 | And you look at the two groups, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, England, New Zealand in one. |
| 1:08.1 | In the other section, we've got Zimbabwe, India, South Africa and West Indies. |
| 1:12.1 | Are there any teams in the last eight who can't realistically win it, do you think? |
| 1:14.7 | That's a nice easy question. |
| 1:19.4 | That's like a Mitchell Johnson shortball into your chest first up. |
| 1:20.6 | It's a difficult. |
| 1:22.8 | I mean, it goes about saying. |
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