Stats: Women's T20 World Cup begins with a record total

All the stats highlights from the ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2026 opener played between England and Sri Lanka at Edgbaston.

- England surpassed their own 213/5 against Pakistan (Cape Town, 2023) to register the highest ever team total in Women's T20 World Cup.

Interestingly, it was also just the third instance that a team finished with a 130-plus total in the tournament despite having lost one or no wicket, after Australia's 189/1 against Bangladesh (Canberra, 2020) and South Africa's 163/0 against Pakistan (Sylhet, 2014).

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- Sri Lanka responded with 132, resulting in an 87-run defeat, and yet, it ended up being the second-most run-filled contest in the Women's World Cup, only three short of the record 354 between India and New Zealand at Providence in 2018.

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by Danni Wyatt-Hodge is now the fourth-highest individual score in the Women's T20 World Cup. The 35-year-old became the second England batter with a hundred in the tournament, after Heather Knight, who had got 108* against Thailand in Canberra in 2020.

Aged ,she has also become the oldest to hit a hundred in Women's T20Is among the players from full-member teams; Chamari Athapaththu had got two in 2024, the second coming at the age of 34 years and 164 days.

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- It was Wyatt-Hodge's third T20I hundred, joint second-most in the format alongside Chamari Athapaththu (SL-W), Rebecca Blake (ROM-W), Fatuma Kibasu (TZN-W), Hayley Matthews (WI-W) and Laura Wolvaardt (SA-W) in a list headed by UAE's Esha Oza. Heather Knight and Tammy Beaumont are England's other centurions in the format (one each).

- Nat Sciver-Brunt became England's leading scorer in Women's T20 World Cups, surpassing Charlotte Edwards's tally of 768. Wyatt-Hodge went past Sarah Taylor (541) and Knight (505) to break into the top-three (currently at 593). The all-rounder also became just the second England batter to 3000 runs in Women's T20Is, after Wyatt-Hodge.

runs added by Wyatt-Hodge and Amy Jones made it the third-highest opening stand in Women's T20 World Cup, and the second-best for England for any wicket in the tournament behind 169* between Knight and Sciver-Brunt against Thailand in Canberra, 2020.

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Danni Wyatt-Hodge has been involved in for ENG-W in T20Is (two each with Sophia Dunkley and Amy Jones); no one else features in more than three.

- Freya Kemp became the third bowler to bag a four-wicket haul on Women's T20 World Cup debut, after Wyatt-Hodge (4/11 against South Africa) and India's Diana David (4/27 against New Zealand), both at Basseterre in 2010.

Holly Colvin's 4/9 is the only other four-wicket haul for England Women in the T20 World Cup.

by Malki Madara is the second-most expensive spell in Women's T20 WC history, only behind Shikha Pandey's 0/52 in the 2020 final at the MCG. Ireland's Eimear Richardson's 1/50 against Australia (Sylhet, 2014) is third in this list.