ENG-W vs SL-W

That rounds up the first night of this T20 World Cup, England have completely dismantled an underwhelming looking Sri Lanka and have registered the first points of the tournament. Tomorrow, we return with a triple-header including a massive one between Australia and South Africa in Manchester. For now, this is Sourabh Agrawal taking your leave on behalf of Bidipto, Pradeep and the rest of the team. Cheers!

A very happy England Captain Nat Sciver-Brunt has this to say after the win: What a way to start off, Danny and Amy looked really composed in what they were doing. (her calf injury?) Danny had me running from the first ball, did get a couple of knocks in the warm-up games but nothing better than being out there. (Were they ruthless?) Absolutely. Really composed, thought about the game in a really good way. In the second innings, three wickets in the powerplay is always going to make it difficult to chase that score down. Really happy that the first game is done

Chamari Athapaththu (Sri Lanka Women captain): We did not play our best cricket today, all three departments. Most imporant thing are the stumps, specially for the spinners. Bowling different lines and lengths is not good enough. We need to play positive cricket, lost a couple of wickets in the powerplay. Nilkashi played well but we need to improve our batting as well. Next game is against New Zealand, first two games against the two big sides, hopefully we can go back to the drawing board and come back better

Danielle Wyatt-Hodge (Player of the Match, 105* off 62 deliveries and an outstanding catch!): "It was great fun out there! What a crowd! What a start! It's always great to get off to a good start in a World Cup. Enjoyed batting with Amy (Jones) and then Nat (Sciver-Brunt) was special in finishing it. That celebration was for my little newborn! A really nice pitch here. Our bowlers did well to keep them out. Now, we head to Southampton." 

9:58 PM local time, 2:28 PM IST: INNINGS BREAK

England Women (219/1 in 20 overs) beat Sri Lanka Women (132 all out in 20 overs) by 87 runs

Danielle Wyatt-Hodge 105*(62) | Freya Kemp 4/21(4)
Nilakshika de Silva 39(33) | Malki Madara 1/51(4)

England start off their home world cup in style, a comprehensive 87-run victory. 3rd highest for them in T20 WCs and 7th largest overall, an absolute no-contest in Edgbaston and the hosts walk out deserving winners with two points to their name

Handshakes all around, the England side is a happy one having got the job done in a commanding fashion. Apart from the toss, pretty much everything went England's way tonight. A blitz with the bat, highest-ever team total in T20 WCs, 219/1, powered by Wyatt-Hodge's third T20I century and the match was pretty much sealed in the first half

If Sri Lanka wanted to make a match out of it, they needed their talisman Chamari Athapaththu to have a night out but she was snapped up by Dean for just 4 and Sri Lanka simply did not have enough in their tank to even get close

Bell started it off with Vishmi's wicket in the third over of the chase, Chamari fell in the next over and soon Sri Lanka were 3 down inside the powerplay. Dean picked up a couple at the start, Ecclestone rounded it off with a couple but Freya Kemp's 4-er will be one of the bigger positives for England keeping aside Wyatt-Hodge's ton

Tells you a thing or two when the highest partnership of the chase is for the 9th wicket, Sri Lanka just did not have enough power and might with the bat and they have copped a hefty defeat here and have a lot of thinking to do before they come up against New Zealand on Tuesday (June 16)

19.6 Sophie Ecclestone to Malki Madara, OUT? NO. AND WE HAVE A REVIEW! Into the wicket and on off. Malki's attempted back-cut gets seemingly edged. But, the umpire isn't convinced. Yes, a spike as ball passes bat and Malki is indeed out! She is caught behind, and Sri Lanka are bowled out! 

ENGLAND WIN THE FIRST GAME, EASILY! 

19.2 Sophie Ecclestone to Nilakshi de Silva, LONG-ON TAKES IT! Flatter length ball on middle-and-off. Hammered flat, and on the up, after advancing. But, Capsey at long-on was good enough to come in the way and complete the take on the full! 

19.1 Sophie Ecclestone to Nilakshi de Silva, round the wicket, FOUR RUNS! Full and around leg. Nilakshi advances and whips it over the in-field to deep mid-wicket! 

Won't get the fifth but Freya Kemp finishes with 4/21, excellent spell from the left-armer. Ecclestone to bowl the final over to finish off the night