Updated : Jun 13, 2026 02:52 IST
elcome to the highlights of the Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 opener between host England Women and Sri Lanka Women at Edgbaston. This is Lavanya Lakshminarayananand I will be keeping you company through a ‘WICKED’ (pun definitely intended) opening ceremony and action from the fixture that will kick off the tournament. Stay tuned.
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Captains speak: Chamari Athapaththu
We’ve not played our best cricket, in all three departments. Bowling at the stumps is the most important thing, we bowled different lines and areas, we need to improve.
On the batting effort: We played positively, lost couple of wickets in the powerplay and momentum. Nilakshika batted well but we must do better.
On their next opponent: New Zealand: They are a big team. We need to execute our plans and see what we can do in the next game.
Captains speak: Nat Sciver-Brunt
What a way to start, Danni and Amy looked so composed. A huge performance.
How the injury rehab is coming along: Danni had me running from the first ball. Happy to find the middle of bat. Had a couple of innings in warm-ups but nothing compared to being out there. Really composed, we went about the game in a really good way. Massive win for us and really happy with that start.
This was definitely a lopsided rivalry but England will be happy to close out the win to begin on such a high in a home World Cup.
Here's what Player of the Match Danni Wyatt-Hodge had to say about the game
Great fun, what a crowd. Really enjoyed playing here. What a start. Great to get a good start in a World Cup, really enjoyed it out there with Amy and then Nat doing what she does best.
On her celebration: That was for Daisy, a little cradle.
On the win: We said it was important to start well, we did that tonight. Our bowlers did incredibly well on a good pitch. Off to Southampton we go to play Ireland.
Next matches
England next faces Ireland on Tuesday, June 16, just after Sri Lanka takes on New Zealand on the same day.
England wins by 87 runs
About as perfect as it can get for England to start the tournament. A dominant performance with the bat was followed up by a clinical performance with the ball.
Lauren Bell struck early, and once Charlie Dean removed Chamari Athapaththu early on, you felt the chase was done, and so it proved. Freya Kemp was the pick of the bowlers with four wickets, while Dean and Sophie Ecclestone picked up two each as well.
All in all, the perfect start for England, and a night to for Sri Lanka.
SL 132 all out (20)
Ecclestone to close out the innings, just the 93 to defend. Nilakshika with a helicopter for four! Goes straight, and this time she picks out Alice Capsey. Valiant effort comes to a close from Nilakshika.
WICKET Nilakshika Silva c Capsey b Ecclestone 37 (32b)
Four balls to go, Mithali Ayodhya comes to the crease. Drilled to point, dot ball. Swing and a miss. Misses the cut, Jones thinks it’s gone but the finger doesn’t go up! Perhaps the most immaterial of reviews we go to. Looks like an edge, it is, and England starts the Women’s T20 World Cup with an 87-run win over Sri Lanka
SL 127/8 (19)
Kemp to bowl out, Malki scoops nicely for one. Pulled for one to backward square leg. Defended back to the bowler twice. Misses the drive. Clipped away to end the over.
SL 125/8 (18)
Bell is just wringing her non-bowling hand after that shot. Linsey Smith to close out her spell. Punched to deep cover. Nilakshika cuts for two. Runs down the wicket, and over long-on for six! Picks out mid-off, dot ball. Single to deep cover. Malki takes one more.
SL 114/8 (17)
Lauren Bell now, starts with two slower balls. Nilakshika takes one. Malki works it fine for one. Drilled back at the bowler, she gets a hand on it but can’t hold on. Worked for one more. Short ball, Nilakshika leaves it.
SL 110/8 (16)
Ecclestone is back, and Nilakshika gets a thick edge for four. Picks out short fine. Drilled to long-on for one. Just past the outside edge. Oooh, and now the inside-edge. Defended to point.
ENG 105/8 (15)
Freya Kemp is back and on a hat-trick, Nilakshika to face...past the outside edge! Good ball, but no wicket. Defended again. Down leg, called wide. Thick edge over off for two. Drilled to deep midwicket for one. Defended to deep cover for one. Worked away for one more to end the over.
Things petering out here.
SL 99/8 (14)
Linsey Smith is into the attack as England looks to finish things off. Nilakshika takes a single. Malki punches to deep cover for one. Lucky, backs away and gets a thick edge past third for two. Driven past covers for two. Punched to deep cover for one. Defended back to the bowler to end the over.
SL 92/8 (13)
Freya Kemp replaces Dani Gibson. Kaveesha gets a lifeline off the second ball with Wyatt-Hodge dropping a tough chance. But Kemp gets her prize as Kavisha picks out the deep square leg fielder. Yet again, taking the pace off works for the England bowler.
WICKET Kavisha Dilhari c Smith b Kemp 19 (15b 1x4 0x6)
Keeper Kaushini Nuthyangana is the new batter. Dot to begin, but Kemp gives her the luxury of an early evening too as she leaves her stumps in dissaray. Fuller and a tad quicker and she has the bails of the top of off stump.
WICKET Kaushini Nuthyangana b Kemp 0 (2b 0x4 0x6)
Sugandika Kumar is the new batter, and she’s gone first ball! Things are unraveling for Sri Lanka, she misses a straight ball and Kemp has four!
WICKET Sugandika Kumari b Kemp 0 (1b 0x4 0x6)
SL 90/5 (12)
Charlie Dean in for her third.
Dot to start for Nilakshika. She then comes down the track menacingly looking to power this to the boundary but there’s a fielder waiting at cow corner to stop its trajectory. Yet another chance as Kavisha chips the ball to mid on. A running Knight can’t get the catch but runs bwehind the ball to throw it back. Tight running happening between the wickets meanwhile and Nilakshika has to dive face down to save herself. Big grin as she gets back on her feet. Kavisha gives another edge but lands safely. She has all the shots, but barely any power to give them the distance today.A single to finish, six runs off it.
SL 84/5 (11)
Gibson returns, hoping to be less generous this time. The sun is setting in Birmingham, we’re a little past 9pm. We’ve got an official crowd figure too. 14,865 folks watching along (Capacity: 25,000).
Meanwhile, there’s a run out opportunity which has Kaveesha sweating a bit. Started with a caught and bowled chance Gibson squandered (it burtst through her fingers to be fair, was a tough one), but there’s a hit on the stumps by Ecclestone. Kavisha dives. Looks like she’s safe.
Kavisha then dances down the track to get the ball past the long on fence. She tries to go again, this time through cover but Linsey saves the boundary. Just two runs. Seven runs from this over.
SL 77/5 (10)
Ecclestone replaces Charlie Dean. Eight runs off it. Nothing anywhere close to risky from Sri Lanka. At the halfway mark, Sri Lanka has lost all its batters of note and now need to see how much longer they can keep the hungry vultures away.
SL 69/5 (9) - Kemp gets Harshitha
Freya Kemp comes into the attack now and we start with a fantastic SIX. But it’s Kemp who will have the last laugh as she bowls her clean three balls later. She tries to open the face of the bat but misses the ball which goes into the off stump. Took the pace off completely. Half the Lankan side is back in the dugout.
WICKET Harshitha Samarawickrama b Kemp 29 (18b 3x4 1x6)
Nilakshika Silva joins Kaveesha now.
Wyatt-Hodge has the chance to send one more wicket packing but drops Nilakshika. She was at backward point and it was just a bit out of her reach and couldn’t get it cleanly. Very low to her right. 11 runs and the wicket from this over.
SL 58/4 (8) - Dean gets Hansima
A quiet over from Charlie Dean but ends with a massive LBW appeal for Hansima. Heading towards middle stump, this is plumb! She will not review this. Sri Lanka lose anyother.
Six runs and a wicket from this over.
WICKET Hansima Karunaratne lbw b Dean 11 (8b 1x4 0x6)
SL 52/3 (7)
Danielle Gibson comes in to the attack and while she starts with discipline, she allows Sri Lanka some respite with Hansima and Harshitha picking a boundary off her. 13 runs from this over. Sri Lanka need more of this.
SL 39/3 (6) - Smith removes Dulani
Linsey Smith to close out the PowerPlay and the spin squeeze is well and truly on. Two dots for Imesha Dulani and there is a sense of desperation building up. She tries to reverse sweep and risked just smashing her own stumps but is saved, but only for a few seconds. Slightly fuller ball from Linsey draws the sweep from Imesha and Freya Kemp is standing at square leg to trake that catch. The Sri Lankan top order is back in the dent without making much of a dent in the target.
WICKET Imesha Dulani c Kemp b Smith 7 (9b 1x4 0x6)
Just the two runs from the over and a wicket.
SL 37/2 (5)
Sophie Ecclestone introduced now. Linsey Smith, Charlie Dean and Ecclestone in the PowerPlay for England. Imesha paddle sweeps Ecclestone and manages to run three before the ball is sent back. Ecclestone then beats her by tempting her outside off. Imesha tries sweeping again and produces a big top edge that head down fine leg. Two quick runs are run. Harshitha then gently comes down the track to smack Ecclestone through cover for four. Harshitha then pauses to deal with the turn Ecclestone is getting, it even produces an inside edge but she’s safe. Dot to end. Nine runs come off the over for Sri Lanka.
183 runs needed from 90 balls
SL 28/2 (4) - Dean gets Athapaththu
Charlie Dean to bowl her first. Replaces Linsey Smith. A dot to start as Athapaththu defends. Athapaththu then tries to go across on the leg side but the mishit produces a big top edge and a running Danni Wyatt-Hodge at square leg pouches a challenging one. Incredible effort. Is this the game for Sri Lanka?
Stunning catch from DWH. She wasn’t even in the right position and still managed to get under it. Charlie Dean managed a touch of turn on that one. Served her well.
WICKET Chamari Athapaththu c Wyatt b Dean 4 (7b 0x4 0x6)
Chamari now venting in the dugout as she removes her equipment. But the chase must go on. In comes Harshitha, one of the heroes of that 2024 Asia Cup triumph for the Lankans. She will get her first boundary a couple of balls in, a nice authoritative shot through covers. Much more of this needed for Sri Lanka.
SL 22/1 (3) - Bell gets Vishmi
Bell returns and we have a leg before appeal right up front which Jacqueline Williams agrees with. Vishmi and Chamari discuss the merits of wasting a review but indicate a review request at the very last second. Replays show no bat involved. Replays show three reds. Vishmi has to walk back. PLUMB. But worse, a review is gone. Full and straight from Bell. Can do this with her eyes closed.
WICKET Vishmi Gunaratne lbw b Bell 6 (9b 1x4 0x6)
Imesha Dulani is the new batter in for Sri Lanka. For a while in that Lankan innings, she was trying hard not to meet Chamari’s eye because of some fielding blunders. Now she will have her for company as they try to give this Lankan response some shape.
Bell strays a bit past leg and it’s called a wide. Imesha then uses a short and wide delivery from Bell to thump the ball between cover and point for four. Dot to follow.
Eight runs and a wicket from this Bell over.
SL 14/0 (2)
In comes Linsey Smith, to Chamari on strike. Pitches it just outside off and Chamari has plucked across for a single. The next two balls are frustrting for Chamari. She middles the ball nicely and tries to go high over midwicket and the straight over the bowler. The ball has height but no distance. That’s fine, it can run away for four right? Nope! The dampness in the outfield means the ball lands and stays. No budging. If her helmet was off, maybe we’d see a vein bursting? Just five runs from this over. In another universe, might have been more.
206 runs needed from 108 balls
SL 9/0 (1)
Lauren Bell begins for England. We’ll get a sense of how much of a road this pitch might be if this England home bowling lineup struggles as well, if at all. Vishmi Gunaratne takes strike. Dot to start, but a nice outswinger which produces a thick edge that falls safely on the off side. Bell keeps it quiet with three dots but goes a bit full and allows room to Vishmi who drives and pierces the point and backward point fielders to run away for four. Bell goes shorter. Vishmi swivels in trying to place it but it misses her and the keeper. Saved by Kemp before it runs away to the ropes. A bye is signalled. Bell once again strays with her line and Chamari Athapaththu has negotiated this fine for four leg byes. Nine runs off this over.
211 needed off 114 balls
Highest scores in Women's T20 World Cup history
219/1 - England vs Sri Lanka - Edgbaston 2026
213/5 - England vs Pakistan - Cape Town 2023
195/3 - S outh Africa vs Thailand, Canberra 2020
194/5 - India vs New Zealand, Providence, 2018
191/4 - Australia vs Ireland, Sylhet, 2014
Sri Lanka needs 220 to win
A statement innings if there ever was one. Coming into this summer, there were questions about England’s batting, and it has answered them on night 1 by posting the highest total in Women’s T20 World Cup history.
Danni Wyatt-Hodge led the way with a glorious 105 not out from 62 balls, studded with 13 fours and a six, as she reminded everyone of why she is such a mainstay at the top of this England order. There were also runs for Amy Jones, who will get a confidence boost from a handy fifty, while Nat Sciver-Brunt put the finishing touches on the innings with an impactful cameo of 46 not out from 22 balls.
Sri Lanka didn’t help itself with its fielding, dropping a number of catches and letting several balls through in the outfield. The task ahead of it is tall now, will it be able to pull this off?
Stay with us to find out.
ENG 219/1 (20)
Four runs to go for DWH, will she run out of time? She’s on strike for the last over. Malki to bowl. Tries to get it past square leg, only gets one! Wide down leg. Sciver-Brunt miscues to the left of long-on, and DWH charges back for two! To make matters worse, it’s a front foot no-ball. Chamari Athapaththu has her head in her hands. NSB drills the ball past midwicket for four off the free hit! 200 up for England. Another wide down leg!
Oh that’s a magnificent shot, runs down the wicket and checks her drive over covers for six! Beautiful batting by the England skipper, who is nearing her fifty! Swings it away for a single to deep square. Two balls for DWH to get a ton now. Swung past square leg, and that’s a ton for Danni Wyatt-Hodge! Simply marvellous batting from the England opener, and she has her fourth T20I ton from 61 balls! Massive fist pump and she shares a hug with her skipper to celebrate the milestone. Wide outside off. Four to end the innings, and England finishes on 219/1, the highest total in a Women’s T20 World Cup match!
ENG 193/1 (19)
Mithali to bowl out. DWH gets an inside edge for one to fine leg. NSB backs away and squeezes the ball past point for two. Scooped away for four, lovely batting! And now past mid-off for four more! She’s motoring now. Dumped into the midwicket gap for two more now. Wide called outside off. Glorious drive through extra-cover to end the over, best of the lot!
18 from the over.
ENG 175/1 (18)
DWH seven runs away now, Dasanayake returns, and she takes a single to long-on. Sciver-Brunt rocks onto the back foot and pulls for one. DWH has an almighty heave, and gets a legbye for one. Sciver-Brunt mistimes the pull...but midwicket shells it running in! Another chance goes begging, and the batter gets two. Slog-swept for one. Drilled straight for one, all in all a good over for Sri Lanka.
ENG 168/1 (17)
Chamari brings herself back, NSB slugs it to deep midwicket for one. Field all back on leg for DWH, how does she play this? Over covers, the sweeper cleans up to keep it to two. Edged to fine leg for one more. Sciver-Brunt gets inside the line and sweeps for four! Second boundary of the day. Cut to point for a dot. Smashed straight to cover to close out the over, a good one from the Sri Lankan skipper.
ENG 160/1 (16)
Kaveesha Dilhari again, DWH steps across and swings it over square leg for three. Thick outside edge from Sciver-Brunt runs away for one. Top-edge on the sweep by Wyatt-Hodge, and square leg loses it in the sun! Runs away for two. Reverse-sweep and she misses out. Drilled through covers for four! Onto 86 now! Why bother with the fancy shots when you can do that? Smashed past square leg for four more now! She’s onto 90!
ENG 146/1 (15)
Mithali is back again, Sciver-Brunt digs out a yorker for one to start. DWH advances and gets an outside-edge for one. Wide full toss, Sciver-Brunt pats it to cover for one. Another single to mid-off for one. Textbook defence from Sciver-Brunt. Shot! Full ball, and Sciver-Brunt backs away to carve it past cover for four!
ENG 138/1 (14)
Malki returns for her third, and DWH mistimes one straight for a single to start the over. Jones backs away and drives to deep cover for one. DWH picks out deep square leg for one more. Finally Jones is gone! Backs away again, and drives to mid-off, where Chamari takes a good catch diving forward!
Amy Jones c Athapaththu b Madara 53 (38b)
A nice moment for Malki, her maiden World Cup wicket. It doesn’t get any easier here’s Nat Sciver-Brunt at three. She got a fifty in the warm-up against India. Off the mark with a punch through cover for one. DWH clips through the leg-side for two to end the over.
ENG 132/0 in (13)
Kaveesha again, Jones picks out long-on for one. DWH follows with another single. Slugged away for one more. DWH advances again, and gets it over the offside for four more! Slogged to leg again, deep midwicket runs around well to keep it to two. Thickish outside edge to short third for one to end the over.
ENG 122/0 (12) - FIFTY FOR AMY JONES
Dasanayake returns for her third, Jones clips it into the midwicket gap for two. Four more, full and Jones drills it through covers for four! Another sitter goes begging! Chipped back half-heartedly, and fumbles an absolute sitter. Drilled straight for one more. DWH runs down the track and gets an inside-edge for one. Jones takes a single straight again, and that’s fifty from 34 balls for Amy Jones! A massive boost for her and England!
ENG 113/0 (11)
Nilakshika comes on. Bowled a good first over. Can she peg things back a bit? Nope. While DWH runs a single, Amy Jones itches to go big finally materialise with a big six over deep backward square. SHe’s 10 runs away from a fifty herself now. A few ones and twos for England and suddenly, a steady innings has become a sprightly one with a 200 in sight even. 12 from the over.
ENG 101/0 (10) - 50 for Danni Wyatt-Hodge, out comes the baby celebration
Chamari Athapaththu brings herself back. She conceded nine runs from her first. She draws DWH out of her crease to give this ball direction. Single. But she will get that boundary, a prance down the crease and a lovely shot through cover to bring up her fifty.
The cradling baby celebration comes out. Danni Wyatt-Hodge with a sweet dedication to her newborn. A couple of singles follow. This is a bit of a nightmare for Sri Lanka. They haven’t even pawed at this pair or made life hard. If anything, DWH smacks Athapaththu for a six over midwicket to bring up the England team 100.
15 runs in all from this Chamari over.
ENG 86/0 (9)
Nilakshika Silva into the attack now. A single for Jones to get the on song DWH on strike. She has a 260 strike rate wide outside off. Sri Lanka needs to target the stumps and that alone. Nilakshika tightens her lines and even beats DWH on a ball just a fraction outside off where her strike rate is 50. A run out chance follows as the openers focus on the ones and twos. Almost a yorker length from Nilakshika and DWH has sent the ball down backward square for a single. Jones’ long legs help her get in without issue. Another single follows with Jones smacking the ball through the leg side. Another very tight single ends the over. DWH retains strike.
A 4-run over. Sri Lanka needs more of this.
ENG 82/0 (8) - Kaveesha concedes 13 runs
In comes Kavisha Dilhari. Inside edge right up front to Amy Jones. Single. Kavisha then drills in a length ball but Wyatt-Hodge uses her wrists and sends the ball sailing through point for four. Two dots follow and Wyatt-Hodge wants to tear open the off side. Unable to open that region, Wyatt-Hodge pulls to midwicket. Imesha Dulani is there but overruns and shockingly a ball that should have been contained becomes a boundary. One more. Pitched down leg and off DWH sends it to backward square for four. Danni on a rampage now as she inches closer to a half century.
ENG 69/0 (7) - Sugandika concedes 18 runs
Sugandika comes in for her second. And it’s a nightmare over for her. 4WD-1-4-1-1NB now so far.
Errant with her width and line. Off the free hit, Amy Jones has drilled it down the ground for four. All that work done by the Mithali over undone now. A whopping eighteen runs come off this over.
ENG 51/0 (6)
Mithali to close out the PowerPlay. A delightful start for England, the best opening stand for this pair this summer. That slingy action is back and she has tightened the line. Dot to begin. She then attacks Jones on the pads but Jones knows how to brush these away. Manages to run two too. A few dots follow as that low slingy action is still a bit of work to read. A single, a wide for a deviation and another single helps complete a relatively quiet over but it brings up the team 50 for England. FOr no loss, Chamari won’t like that.
ENG 46/0 (5)
Malki Madara continues. Gives Wyatt-Hodge too much room outside off stump and she comes down to the track to whack this over cover for four. In trying to correct this, Malki goes too short. Still playing to DWH’s preferences. Another four, this time via deep third. The keeper is called up to the stumps and Madara tightens things and a single follows for DWH through midwicket. A dot follows, as DWH attempts to run a tight single but decides against it. Madara gets it wrong as she goes too wide yet again off the last ball and Wyatt-Hodge is happy to send this past backward point for four. Expensive over this.
ENG 32/0 (4)
Sri Lanka wants a wicket. How do you? The captain brings herself on. Four overs, four different bowlers. Chamari, one cricketing nomad, bowls to DWH, another cricketing nomad. A couple of singles follow. Nothing too ambitious from England. This pair is just not able to open up the field or pierce those gaps to rake in the boundaries. But the Lankans aren’t able to remove them either. Amy Jones got a bit restless and pulled Chamari to the square leg fence. Imesha Dulani is on the boundary line and the call was to catch it. She gets a hand on it but drops the ball which promptly lands on the boundary cushion. FOUR RUNS.
ENG 23/0 (3)
Chamari goes to experience. Sugandika with her left-arm spin. Had the lowest release point of the 2024 T20 World Cup. Jones first flicks her for a single through mid-on. DWH flicks through leg but no run. DWH then opens her arms to get the ball over the cover fielders but the outfield is a tad slow. Three runs have been run nevertheless. Jones sticks to the leg side as she pushes for the ones and twos. Eight runs from this over in all.
ENG 15/0 (2)
Mithali Ayodhya or Lasith Malinga! Flashbacks galore from this slingy action from Mithali.
Wyatt-Hodge takes a few moments to get used to how much this goes away from the batter. A dot and then she manages to cut the ball for a single. But Mithali goes a fraction too wide. Umpire raises both hands to signal the extra. Follows that up with a length ball that is smacked to cover for a single. There’s protection. But it’s this width that allow England it’s first boundary of the day, Danni Wyatt Hodge capitalising on this full wide delivery to get it over extra cover for for FOUR. Mithali tightens the line and DWH gets a single through covers. It would have been a dot to finish with a packed offside field but Kavisha double fumbles to allow Amy Jones and DWH room to run the single.
Wondering who Malki Madara is? Or her new ball partner Mithali Ayodhya?
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ENG 6/0 (1)
Danni Wyatt-Hodge and Amy Jones to open for England. Chamari Athapaththu hands the ball to Malki Madara. Sprightly pacer who many people in the Lankan setup view as a promising talent. She is known to manage some good pace on the ball. The youngster is now fidgety as the first ball of the World Cup faces some delay. A sightscreen issue, broadcast suggests. Until then, we are treated to the fantastic aerial view of this history ground.
Amy Jones can see something near the sightscreen and is a bit agitated, dare I say. We see some people seated and walking there. So the match officials are now clearing the eyeline for the England batters. Let’s go. We are finally clear.
Madara sends out a length ball to Jones, who thumps it offside for a dot ball. The Lankan youngster seems to getting some inswing as the ball deviates in a bit. The English pair run a sketchy single and if Kavisha had nailed her throw to the non-strikers, Amy Jones might have been in hot water now. Single.
Yet again, Madara targets the middle and leg stump and Danni Wyatt-Hodge clumsily pushes for a single. Deemed a leg bye. Another inswinger follows, and Jones clips this to midwicket for two runs. Madara then sends in a cutter, but Jones has swiped this to midwicket for a single. Wyatt-Hodge again negotiates to midwicket for a single. That spot has been left vacant from Chamari. Something for the Lankans to think about.
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WICKED lights up Edgbaston
BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND - JUNE 12: The cast of Wicked perform during the opening ceremony ahead of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup match between England and Sri Lanka at Edgbaston on June 12, 2026 in Birmingham, England. (Photo by Matthew Lewis-ICC/ICC via Getty Images)
After a quintessentially British theatrical start with the cast of Wicked, it’s time to focus on the action on the field. Still a fair number of empty seats at Edgbaston but plenty of Sri Lankan fans spotted in the crowd. Chamari Athapaththu was banking on this ahead of the fixture. If you want to revisit what she and Nat Sciver-Brunt had to say, check it out:
England skipper Sciver-Brunt gave away little about how her side will lineup in the Women’s T20 World Cup opener against Sri Lanka in Edgbaston on Friday. Sri Lanka captain Athapaththyu believes the pressure is on the home side to deliver in Birmingham.
Time for the opening ceremony - A T20 World Cup x Wicked Collaboration
The ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 will open at Edgbaston on June 12 with an opening ceremony which looks to blend sport, music, and culture.
The ceremony will have a live performance by the full West End cast of Wicked, led by theatre actors Emma Kingston and Zizi Strallen.
This unique collaboration also commemorates Wicked’s 20th anniversary. Moreover, over 150,000 tickets have been sold for the event, which will be held prior to the opening match of the World Cup.
LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 19: The cast of the West End production of "Wicked" take a bow at the "Wicked" 2023 Media Night at Apollo Victoria Theatre on April 19, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Nicky J Sims/Getty Images)
A crucial opportunity for Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka has never gone past the group stage of a T20 World Cup. In 35 games in this tournament, it has only won 10.
TOSS: Chamari Athapaththu wins the toss and opts to field
Here are the lineups for today:
ENGLAND
Sri Lanka
England drops Sophia Dunkley to accommodate both its all-rounders.
Where to watch Women's T20 World Cup 2026 in India? Telecast and Live Streaming details
The Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 cricket matches will be available to watch on live streaming on JioHotstar. Live telecast of the Women’s T20 World Cup will be available on Star Sports 1, Star Sports 1 HD, Star Sports 2, Star Sports 2 HD, Star Sports 3 and Star Sports 3 HD TV channels in India.
Hello hello! The 2026 Women's T20 World Cup is here!
Welcome to Sportstar’s live coverage of the 2026 Women’s T20 World Cup. We officially get underway with England vs Sri Lanka at Birmingham’s Edgbaston Cricket Ground. So much to discuss today, not just with regard to this game but also for all the excitement leading up to the India vs Pakistan game later this weekend. All that and more coming up. Stay with us.
Published on Jun 12, 2026
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