Sri Lanka Women vs England Women Scorecard, Match 1, ICC Womens T20 World Cup
Result · Jun 12 2026, Fri - 11:00 PM (IST)
ENGLAND WOMEN219/1
SRI LANKA WOMEN132
England Women won by 87 runs
CRR:6.6
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | Women's T20 World Cup |
| Date: | Jun 12 2026, Fri - 11:00 PM (IST) |
| Country: | England |
| City: | Birmingham |
| Venue: | Edgbaston |
| Toss: | Sri Lanka Women won the toss and elected to bowl. |
| England Women Playing XI: | Danni Wyatt-Hodge, Amy Jones (wk), Natalie Sciver-Brunt (c), Alice Capsey, Heather Knight, Freya Kemp, Danielle Gibson, Charlie Dean, Sophie Ecclestone, Linsey Smith, Lauren Bell |
| Sri Lanka Women Playing XI: | Vishmi Gunaratne, Chamari Athapaththu (c), Imesha Dulani, Hansima Karunaratne, Harshitha Samarawickrama, Kavisha Dilhari, Nilakshi de Silva, Kaushini Nuthyangana (wk), Sugandika Kumari, Malki Madara, Mithali Ayodhya |
- Sri Lanka have won their last two women’s T20Is against England after losing all their 10 meetings in the format prior; Sri Lanka have bowled first on the day in each of those two victories.
- England have won both of their ICC Women’s T20 World Cup matches against Sri Lanka; Heather Knight, Nat Sciver-Brunt and Amy Jones (England) and Chamari Athapaththu (Sri Lanka) are the only players in the 2026 squads that were involved in their most recent meeting in the tournament in 2014.
- Sri Lanka have won their last five women’s T20Is; the last time they recorded a longer winning run in the format was a six-match span from July to August in 2024.
- England will be looking to avoid consecutive defeats at the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup for the first time since February 2020, following their six-wicket loss against West Indies in their most recent game in the tournament (15 October 2024).
- Sri Lanka have lost their last six ICC Women’s T20 World Cup matches; a seventh consecutive defeat in this game would be their outright longest losing run in the history of the tournament (also L6 from March 2014 to March 2016).
- England recorded a batting strike rate of 115.1 at the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024, the best of any team while Sri Lanka (70.5) were ranked last in this category; in addition, England scored 48.4% of their runs from boundaries, the second highest rate of any team in the tournament (West Indies – 56.3%).
- Harshitha Samarawickrama (9) is one away from becoming only the second player to reach 10 50+ scores for Sri Lanka in women’s T20Is (Chamari Athapaththu – 17); she hasn’t been dismissed in each of her last two T20I innings against England (30*, 26*).
- Danni Wyatt-Hodge (England) recorded a batting dot ball rate of 27.8% from 54 balls faced during the powerplay at the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024, the best of any player to face more than 15 deliveries during this period.
- Chamari Athapaththu (Sri Lanka) has scored 191 runs across all her six innings in women’s T20Is in 2026 though is yet to record a 50+ score; she’s reached 50+ at least once in each of her last five calendar years in the format prior to this year – her career T20I batting average against England (16.4) is her lowest against any team she’s faced more than twice.
- Sophie Ecclestone (England) has taken 10 wickets in women’s T20Is at Edgbaston in Birmingham – only Katherine Sciver-Brunt at Chelmsford County Ground (16) and Ecclestone herself at Chelmsford County Ground (11) have recorded more wickets at a single venue for England in England in the history of the format; she’s taken five wickets at an average of 13.8 across her last three T20I innings there.