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.
219/1- 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).
Highest team totals in Women's T20 World Cup
| Score | Team | Opponent | Venue | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sri Lanka-W | Birmingham | England-W | 219/1 | 12 Jun 2026 |
| Pakistan-W | Cape Town | England-W | 213/5 | 21 Feb 2023 |
| Thailand-W | Canberra | South Africa-W | 195/3 | 28 Feb 2020 |
| New Zealand-W | Providence | India-W | 194/5 | 9 Nov 2018 |
| Ireland-W | Sylhet | Australia-W | 191/4 | 27 Mar 2014 |
351- 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.
Highest match aggregates in Women's T20 World Cup
| Aggregate | Fixture | Venue | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 354 | IND-W vs NZ-W | Providence | 9 Nov 2018 |
| 351 | ENG-W vs SL-W | Birmingham | 12 Jun 2026 |
| 339 | AUS-W vs IND-W (SF) | Cape Town | 23 Feb 2023 |
| 333 | WI-W vs SA-W | Basseterre | 5 May 2010 |
| 328 | ENG-W vs AUS-W (SF) | The Oval | 19 Jun 2009 |
105* 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 35 years and 52 days,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.
Hundreds in Women's T20 World Cup
| Score | Player | Team | Opponent | Venue | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meg Lanning | IRE-W | Sylhet | AUS-W | 126 | 27 Mar 2014 |
| Deandra Dottin | SA-W | Basseterre | WI-W | 112* | 5 May 2010 |
| Heather Knight | THA-W | Canberra | ENG-W | 108* | 26 Feb 2020 |
| Danni Wyatt-Hodge | SL-W | Birmingham | ENG-W | 105* | 12 Jun 2026 |
| Harmanpreet Kaur | NZ-W | Providence | IND-W | 103 | 9 Nov 2018 |
| Muneeba Ali | IRE-W | Cape Town | PAK-W | 102 | 15 Feb 2023 |
| Lizelle Lee | THA-W | Canberra | SA-W | 101 | 28 Feb 2020 |
3 - 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).
784 - 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.
135runs 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.
Highest opening partnerships in Women's T20 World Cup
| Runs | Pair | For | Opponent | Ground | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SA-W | PAK-W | Sylhet | 23 Mar 2014 | 163* | Lizelle Lee, Dane van Niekerk |
| AUS-W | BAN-W | Canberra | 27 Feb 2020 | 151 | Alyssa Healy, Beth Mooney |
| ENG-W | SL-W | Birmingham | 12 Jun 2026 | 135 | Danni Wyatt-Hodge, Amy Jones |
| WI-W | AUS-W | Kolkata | 3 Apr 2016 | 120 | Hayley Matthews, Stafanie Taylor |
| SA-W | WI-W | Dubai | 4 Oct 2024 | 119* | Tazmin Brits, Laura Wolvaardt |
Danni Wyatt-Hodge has been involved in six of the 10 century opening stands for ENG-W in T20Is (two each with Sophia Dunkley and Amy Jones); no one else features in more than three.
4/21 - 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.
1/51by 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.
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