26/03/2016 Saturday Sportsday

Coming up, we're in DelHi ahead of England's must-win

We catch up with one of the stars of the London

Jonnie Peacock - as he bids to defend his title

And can sport help spread harmony in one

of the world's most notorious prisons?

All that to come but first let's look at some of

England's footballers are in Germany as they

step up preparations for the summer's

Harry Kane is one of four Tottenham players in

the starting line-up for this evening's

Gary Cahill is captain with Wayne Rooney

Johanna Konta is through to the 3rd round of the Miami

Open after beating Montenegro's Danka

Kovinic in straight sets.

But fellow Briton Kyle Edmund was beaten

Andy Murray plays Denis Istomen at midnight tonight.

Defending champion and world No 3 Rory McIlroy

is through to the knockout stage of the WGC-Match Play

event in Texas - he eventually beat Kevin Na

It's crunch day for England at the World T20 -

after the West Indies beat South Africa

The fate of Eoin Morgan's side is in their own

If they beat Sri Lanka this afternoon

they are through to the semi-finals, if

Welcome to Delhi on English's cricket's day of destiny. Trying to

prove they have a place in the elite of cricket in this format of the

game. The team trying to evolve their cricket. Their batting against

Afghanistan was shocking. Timorous was the word I would use. Eoin

Morgan not playing a shot in a Twenty20 game, who does not do that?

What was going on? As far as the Twenty20 was concerned into and are

getting better. They have more players, particularly batsmen, more

inclined to play shots you see other teams playing. Sri Lanka reigning

champions but think back to the last final. Jayawardene, Sangakkara,

crucial players who have retired. They are looking for a new direction

and also with the respect for England. In Twenty20 cricket, do

England have world-class players? I think they have some really good

players. Especially compared to the last five, six years. I think they

are not concerned about the Twenty20 format, but now they are thinking,

they have Joe Root, Joss Buttler, they are the key players. We cannot

forget we are in India, and Asian cricket conditions are always a

challenge to English players, but they have had time to adapt and they

know this opportunity is too good to waste.

Jonnie Peacock was the golden boy of the London Paralympics but since

then he has not had it all his own way and our reporter when to meet

him at his training base in Loughborough to find out how

preparations to defend his title are going now that the competition is at

its fiercest. That was my first year as a

full-time athlete and everything was new, I was just soaking everything

up. In 2012 Jonnie Peacock took the athletics world by storm. It is the

past, it is done. Heading to Rio as defending champion he is a different

athlete, more experienced with more understanding on how to approach the

sport. My training has progressed and I have learned more about my

body. We are working quite well in terms of how many big days I can fit

in each week. Today was a recovery day, yesterday was a big day. It is

allowing me to get time to recover. Victory is far from assured. The 100

metres world record in the T 44 has been broken four time since London

and he knows he will be pushed. The competition has hotted up. I

expected that, maybe not to that degree, but I expected people to

improve. They see one person do it and everybody believes it is

possible. It is a rivalry with one particular athlete that has gained

attention. The flamboyant American Richard Browne. He has used

disappointment of finishing second in London as motivation, becoming

world champion and world record-holder and his success on the

track has been by bravado fit. It speaks you when you lose and someone

else comes through. Especially when they give it the big chat like he

does. It will spook you. I started to figure out what had gone wrong.

He now believes he is ready to put the record straight in Rio. Older

and wiser and hopefully stronger. The second biggest race I will

compete in and I know I will have that switch in my back pocket and I

can turn it on when it matters. Jonnie Peacock going for

back-to-back Paralympic gold. Everyone knows exercise is good for

you physically and mentally, but what about using it as

rehabilitation for some of the world's most dangerous prisoners?

Our reporter went to a California prison where tennis is proving a

hit. This is San Quentin, one of the most

notorious prisons in the whole of the world, with more death row

inmates incarcerated here than anywhere else in the USA. It might

be one of the oldest prisons in California, but they are not afraid

to try something new. It has pioneered using sport to aid

rehabilitation, perhaps its most notable the tennis programme. With

tennis courts sitting in the middle of a notorious prison yard.

My name is Ronnie Muhammed. I have been in San Quentin since 2002. I

was incarcerated under the three strikes law for residential

burglary. Tennis invites you to a better level of emotion. If you play

any sport or games, you can understand where I am coming from.

The game relaxes the mind, it calms all of us. You do not have to be

here long to realise much of the prison is separated along race lines

and gang lines. But on the tennis court, it is a mutual ground, one of

the few in San Quentin where it does not matter what race you are, if you

are in a gang, you can come and play tennis. Where is my racket qua --

racket? Why are you yelling? How important is the tennis court to

you? The tennis court is the place I go to every day, even when I do not

play tennis I sit in the area because I like to hear the drama, be

around the crowds of people. I do my studying in my prison cell, watch

TV, write letters but other than that when I leave the building, I

come straight to the tennis courts. That is the power of sport.

Coming up next on BBC One - can Seb Coe save athletics?

He's been talking to Steve Cram about cleaning up the sport -