Bairstow backs England's T20 World Cup chances on subcontinent experience

As England's white-ball cricket enters a new chapter under Harry Brook's leadership, Jonny Bairstow has offered a quietly confident reading of the team's position ahead of the 2026 T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka. Speaking from South Africa's domestic circuit, Bairstow argued that the modern architecture of franchise cricket has fundamentally changed what it means to prepare for the subcontinent — England's players do not arrive as strangers to these conditions, but as practitioners who have lived and competed within them. The January tour of Sri Lanka now stands as the final act of prepa