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England Hold Off Italy in Tense T20 World Cup Showdown; Super 8 Dreams Intensify

England can prevail against a strong Italy due to Will Jacks' half century and a sloppy bowling performance from Sam Curran and Jamie Overton.

England enter their first-ever T20 World Cup clash against Italy as favourites in the Super Eights stage.

England Hold Off Italy in Tense T20  World Cup Showdown; Super 8 Dreams  Intensify
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16 Feb 2026 9:33 PM IST

According to him, it was a legitimate alarm for England even though they're in the Super Eights

and that's all that's important in the end.

When the two England vs Italy T20 World Cup 2026 play each other in the Eden on Monday

for the first time in the cricket World Cup, England will certainly be the dominant favourites.

On paper, and in terms of history of cricket, England are certainly miles ahead of debutants, who

are brand new to the game, and also first-timers in an event of this magnitude. However

however, there is no way that England considering the Italians for granted heading into the

important T20 World Cup game.

The five-wicket victory over Scotland on the same day which was accentuated by the

performances of players like Adil Rashid, Liam Dawson as well as Tom Banton's accurate 63

Not out in No. 4. It did bring some relief for the England cricket team performance after a

tough victory over Nepal and a defeat against West Indies. West Indies.

This will be confirmed in the event that they don't let Italy to repeat the mistake that Zimbabwe

has done to Australia the week before in Colombo. In addition that, the Italian cricketers are very

positive after the 10-wicket loss they gave an egregious Nepal in their last match.

Italy isn't in the country for the Will Jacks and Tom Banton innings numbers" Their captain,

Wayne Madsen, who's still striving to be fully fit after suffering an injury to his shoulder in the

match in the match against Scotland declared on Sunday.

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