India, June 12 -- England, the hosts of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2026, opens their campaign with a big-ticket face-off against Sri Lanka on Friday, June 12. The England women's cricket team are heading into the major event on the back of some impressive results. They first defeated India in a three-match T20I series on home soil, before replicating the result in a recent warm-up game. England, however, fell short of Australia Women in the penultimate fixture ahead of the T20 World Cup.

Meanwhile, the Sri Lanka women's cricket team have been unbeaten since their three-wicket defeat in an ODI game to Bangladesh in April. The Islanders whitewashed the same opponents in a subsequent T20I series, and thrashed Pakistan and the Netherlands...