Women’s T20 World Cup, Group 2, Edgbaston <\/p>\n
England 219-1 (20 overs): Wyatt-Hodge 105* (62), Jones 53 (38)<\/p>\n
Sri Lanka 132 (19.5 overs): De Silva 39 (32); Kemp 4-22<\/p>\n
England won by 87 runs<\/p>\n
Scorecard<\/a>. Tables<\/a>.<\/p>\n Danni Wyatt-Hodge lit up the opening night of the T20 World Cup with a sensational 105 not out as England began with a statement victory over Sri Lanka at Edgbaston.<\/p>\n Veteran opener Wyatt-Hodge, whose partner gave birth to their first child three weeks ago, celebrated by rocking her bat in her arms after racing to three figures in 61 balls.<\/p>\n She put on 135 for the first wicket with Amy Jones and when England’s wicketkeeper fell for 53 from 38 balls, captain Nat Sciver-Brunt continued the onslaught by hitting 46 not out from 22.<\/p>\n It took England to 219-1 – the highest score at a women’s T20 World Cup.<\/p>\n Sri Lank did not help themselves, dropping Jones twice and Sciver-Brunt once as well as leaking wides and no-balls, and were bowled out for 132.<\/p>\n Wyatt-Hodge also took a stunning steepling catch to dismiss Sri Lanka captain and key batter Chamari Athapaththu for four to cap a stunning all-round display, while 21-year-old left-armer Freya Kemp snuck in with 4-21 to seal the 87-run win.<\/p>\n It gave England a perfect start on a sunny night in Birmingham.<\/p>\n Ireland and Scotland enter on Saturday morning. England’s second match in Group 2 is on Tuesday against Ireland in Southampton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Women’s T20 World Cup, Group 2, Edgbaston England 219-1 (20 overs): Wyatt-Hodge 105* (62), Jones 53 (38) Sri…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-732901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}