Jun 15, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min · 19 segments
Katya is joined by Ben Gardner & The Scoop's Anjali Doshi to round up what was an action packed opening weekend at the women's T20 World Cup that saw England impress against Sri Lanka, Australia…
Katya WitneyHostBen GardnerPanelist
Lisa SthalekarGuest
Anjali DoshiGuest
Joining me to pick through all of that in the studio is Ben Gardner and The Scoop's Anjali Doshi.
Should we start with England? Go chronologically? Um, if we keep some of the highbrow analysis to one side for the minute, they were just really good.
Um, you could almost feel a sigh of relief around Edgbaston as they came out and won that one.
I, I think it was important of the manner in which they won it as well because that feels like the kind of match England would normally be pretty bad at, uh, in terms of, like, it feels like it would be the kind of match they would nerdle their way up to 160 and then either such Sri Lanka would get nowhere near or they'd get to 140.
But they came out, they got their second-highest T20 score batting first of all time, and it was just a complete performance, wasn't it, Ben?
And, and it definitely would not be outside the realms of possibility for England to, to make hard work of that game.
But I think we're also actually it, it's a strange thing because Charlotte Edwards has now been in the role for, for quite a long time.
But actually in terms of the, the T20 side's life cycle, I'm still, we're still trying to work out where the side is at.
The West Indies one was a bit of a non-event and then this year the sort of shopping and changing through the warm-ups, not having Nat Sciver-Brunt available, uh, actually knowing what this England team even, what the best side actually is when everyone is available.
It's a, you know, it's harsh and severe dunkly, but I think with Sciver-Brunt over to bowl, that's the only thing they could do.
Uh, but it does seem to, seem to work together and, and you know, Wyatt-Hodge, um, there wouldn't, there shouldn't really have been too many questions about her because of the pedigree that she has.
But there's always, there was a little bit of a hint of some stuff about her form last summer and then, uh, when someone is just not, just not in the side, you're just not sure what form they're in, basically.
Uh, so for her to come out and play like that in her, but mostly in her, in her trademark fashion.
But I thought there was, there was still an element of, of control there and that England paced it pretty well.
Like, uh, you'd normally expect, you know, one of your openers, especially if it's Wyatt-Hodge makes 100, that you're gonna be pushing well past 200.
And actually until the last overs, if, if the innings wouldn't got a sort of a, a turbo boost from her and from Sciver-Brunt, you thought maybe they were gonna fall sh- just sort of 200, which would've been plenty, but also would've been a bit odd to be one down and not scoring 200.
Joining me to pick through all of that in the studio is Ben Gardner and The Scoop's Anjali Doshi.
Should we start with England? Go chronologically? Um, if we keep some of the highbrow analysis to one side for the minute, they were just really good.
Um, you could almost feel a sigh of relief around Edgbaston as they came out and won that one.
I, I think it was important of the manner in which they won it as well because that feels like the kind of match England would normally be pretty bad at, uh, in terms of, like, it feels like it would be the kind of match they would nerdle their way up to 160 and then either such Sri Lanka would get nowhere near or they'd get to 140.
But they came out, they got their second-highest T20 score batting first of all time, and it was just a complete performance, wasn't it, Ben?
And, and it definitely would not be outside the realms of possibility for England to, to make hard work of that game.
But I think we're also actually it, it's a strange thing because Charlotte Edwards has now been in the role for, for quite a long time.
But actually in terms of the, the T20 side's life cycle, I'm still, we're still trying to work out where the side is at.
The West Indies one was a bit of a non-event and then this year the sort of shopping and changing through the warm-ups, not having Nat Sciver-Brunt available, uh, actually knowing what this England team even, what the best side actually is when everyone is available.
It's a, you know, it's harsh and severe dunkly, but I think with Sciver-Brunt over to bowl, that's the only thing they could do.
Uh, but it does seem to, seem to work together and, and you know, Wyatt-Hodge, um, there wouldn't, there shouldn't really have been too many questions about her because of the pedigree that she has.
But there's always, there was a little bit of a hint of some stuff about her form last summer and then, uh, when someone is just not, just not in the side, you're just not sure what form they're in, basically.
Uh, so for her to come out and play like that in her, but mostly in her, in her trademark fashion.
But I thought there was, there was still an element of, of control there and that England paced it pretty well.
Like, uh, you'd normally expect, you know, one of your openers, especially if it's Wyatt-Hodge makes 100, that you're gonna be pushing well past 200.
And actually until the last overs, if, if the innings wouldn't got a sort of a, a turbo boost from her and from Sciver-Brunt, you thought maybe they were gonna fall sh- just sort of 200, which would've been plenty, but also would've been a bit odd to be one down and not scoring 200.
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