🏏ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2025: SLW vs ENGW Match.12🏏 - Page 13

Chamari Athapaththu: Want to bowl first. Very confident about my bowling unit. We have a good experienced bowling unit. Conditions good for spin as well. If we restrict them to 200-240, will be good. One change for us. We struggled with our batting in the middle overs. Have worked on it. Privilege for the whole team to play at home.

Sri Lanka Women have won the toss and have opted to field

Sciver-Brunt: Was going to bat, pretty happy with that. I think it'll be good (the pitch). Third game on it so the idea was to bat first, and across the day hopefully it'll get slower and our spinners will come into the game. Same team. A brilliant allrounder for us and makes up the balance of the team nicely (Capsey). We've had a few recruits come in and help us out in the nets (preparing against left-armers). Definitely not taking anything lightly. They've got some brilliant matchwinners in their side and some great control with their spinners in the middle.

Teams:

Sri Lanka Women (Playing XI): Hasini Perera, Chamari Athapaththu(c), Harshitha Samarawickrama, Vishmi Gunaratne, Kavisha Dilhari, Nilakshi de Silva, Anushka Sanjeewani(w), Dewmi Vihanga, Sugandika Kumari, Udeshika Prabodhani, Inoka Ranaweera

England Women (Playing XI): Tammy Beaumont, Amy Jones(w), Heather Knight, Nat Sciver-Brunt(c), Sophia Dunkley, Emma Lamb, Alice Capsey, Charlotte Dean, Sophie Ecclestone, Linsey Smith, Lauren Bell

Amy Jones and Tammy Beaumont are at the crease. Amy Jones is on strike. Udeshika Prabodhani will open the attack

The players are out there and ready to go

TIme for the anthems. "Sri Lanka Matha" followed by "God Save the King".

Over 8

Runs Scored: 4

0 2 0 1 0 1

Score after 8 overs

ENGW 44-1

Tammy Beaumont27(23)

Heather Knight5(12)

Sugandika Kumari

4-0-22-0

Over 11

Runs Scored: 2

0 0 0 1 1 0

Score after 11 overs

ENGW 52-2

Nat Sciver-Brunt2(6)

Heather Knight6(18)

Chamari Athapaththu

2-0-3-0

ENGW 141/3 (29.1)

CRR: 4.83

Sri Lanka Women opt to bowl

Partnership: 33(47)

Last Wkt: Heather Knight c Dewmi Vihanga b Inoka Ranaweera 29(47) - 109/3 in 21.4 ov.

Last 10 overs: 41 runs, 1 wkts

Toss: Sri Lanka Women (Bowling)

Kavisha Dilhari to Sophia Dunkley, out Caught&Bowled!! Oh she's claiming a return catch and the umpire will send it upstairs to see if it carried! Smart replay confirms that it's a fair catch. Dunkley has to go. An overpitched delivery just outside off, she drives firmly but it goes straight back to Dilhari around ankle height. Nicely taken above the turf with both hands. Sophia Dunkley c and b Kavisha Dilhari 18(30)

Kavisha Dilhari to Sophia Dunkley, THATS OUT!! Caught&Bowled!!

Eng-- 148/4

Eng are struggling to score runs, against SL team. They are bowling very well.

Sciver-Brunt setting up a good platform for England here going into the final third of the innings.

Inoka Ranaweera to Lamb, out Bowled!! She has been bowled behind her legs! Lamb b Inoka Ranaweera 13(13) [4s-2]

Inoka Ranaweera to Lamb, THATS OUT!! Bowled!!

Eng lost their 5th wicket.

Eng--168/5 after 34.3 overs.