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Sky Sports Cricket Podcast

ICC T20 World Cup preview: Politics, six-hitting & England's chances

Sky Sports Cricket Podcast

Sky Sports

Sports News, Cricket, Sports, News

4.4598 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Nas and Ath are back on the Sky Sports Cricket Podcast after some time off following the Ashes to preview the upcoming T20 World Cup.

They discuss the off-field issues threatening to disrupt the competition, chat about England's chances and take a look at the questions surrounding the behaviour of captain Harry Brook.

Plus in the second half of the episode they're joined by T20 analyst Freddie Wilde to pick out which sides should have ambitions of lifting the trophy.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Yeah, gone.

0:02.0

Go on, he gets his fairy tale ending.

0:05.0

An epic way to go to a test match 100.

0:09.0

The London sphere the first-time win is the most remarkable thing you'll probably ever see in cricket.

0:15.0

Six hundred and four and final test wicket that's new aboard.

0:20.0

It's India who win the T20 World Cup.

0:23.1

England's captain Ben Stokes while he is there.

0:26.6

England have hope.

0:32.6

Well, after a dismal ashes, the Sky Cricket podcast is back on the eve of the T20 World Cup,

0:41.4

the 10th edition of which, which gets underway on Saturday.

0:44.5

We'll be talking about that later on in the pod.

0:47.7

But NAS, first of all, it's a timely return for the pod,

0:52.3

given that England's under 19s have just beaten Australia under 19s in the semi-final of their world. It is. I mean, it must be us, Sat. Whenever we were around, it was all doom and gloom and negative ashes and everything that happened in the winter, the women's world cut. And then we've not been around, and they've had a brilliant month in Sri Lanka and the under

1:11.9

19s have gone off and got through to the final. I mean a semi-final against Australia,

1:17.2

Rue getting under, you've got to be a good player in a youth World Cup, Under 19 World Cup,

1:21.5

to get runs in a semi-final against Australia. You have to be a serious talent to be able to do that,

1:28.6

ath, don't you? Well, we were wallet all those years ago.

1:33.5

I wasn't. You were. For those two young enough to remember, which will be most of our

1:38.6

listeners, I should imagine, Mosellev and NAS, played in the very first on the 19 World

1:43.8

Cup,

1:48.7

which was in 1988, the bicentennial celebration of Australia.

1:54.6

And we were smashed in the semi-final by Australia at the Adelaide Oval,

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