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• Wyatt-Hodge fires England to Women’s T20 World Cup record score to sink Sri Lanka

  12-06-2026 23:28
  England, 219-1, beat Sri Lanka, 132, by 87 runsWyatt-Hodge unbeaten on 105 for hosts in openerEngland got their World Cup campaign off to a flyer with an 87-run win against Sri Lanka at Edgbaston on Friday evening, thanks to a thundering century from Danni Wyatt-Hodge.This was a statement win by England, whose batting firepower has recently been questioned but who powered their way to 219 – the highest total by any team in the history of the tournament – for the loss of just one wick
  
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• England rout Sri Lanka in Women’s T20 Cricket World Cup opener – as it happened

  12-06-2026 23:27
  England start tournament with crushing 87 run win over Sri Lanka at Edgbaston4th over: England 32-0 (Jones 16, Wyatt Hodge 14) Captain Athapaththu brings herself on to keep the changes coming. Jones is frustrated as she clubs two drag downs straight to the fielder at square leg. Five singles in a row… Jones then deploys the slog sweep and gets four but could/should have been caught on the boundary! Dilhari gets in a muddle thinking she could only palm the ball back in to save the six but
  
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• England v Sri Lanka: Women’s T20 Cricket World Cup opener – live

  12-06-2026 21:32
  Updates from Edgbaston; play starts at 6.30pm BST
  Hosts get ready to rock | Mail James | Read the Spin4th over: England 32-0 (Jones 16, Wyatt Hodge 14) Captain Athapaththu brings herself on to keep the changes coming. Jones is frustrated as she clubs two drag downs straight to the fielder at square leg. Five singles in a row… Jones then deploys the slog sweep and gets four but could/should have been caught on the boundary! Dilhari gets in a muddle thinking she could only palm the ball ba
  
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• Cox leaves Leicestershire reeling, Kent collapse at Lancashire: county cricket, day one – as it happened

  12-06-2026 21:05
  Essex’s Jordan Cox scores 184 at Grace Road while Lancashire’s Liam Livingstone grabs five wickets against KentDelays at Grace Road, Trent Bridge and Blackpool, but all up and running otherwise.Shoaib Bashir though is playing for Derbyshire up at CLS, and ex Derbyshire bowler Duanne Olivier for Durham, but no sign yet of Ben Stokes. Continue reading...
  
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• From hunted to hunter: Australia enter T20 World Cup with renewed hunger

  12-06-2026 17:00
  Without a world crown to their name, new captain Sophie Molineux’s side are out to prove they remain the primary force in women’s cricketAustralia settled into a familiar role as the hunted across more than a decade of dominance that reaped six T20 world titles and a pair of 50-over trophies since 2010. But for the first time in more than seven years the once all-conquering team enter a women’s global showpiece without carrying the weight of either the T20 or ODI world crowns.C
  
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• Kane Williamson retires from New Zealand duty and ends involvement in England Test series

  12-06-2026 12:45
  ‘I’ve given it my all in every match,’ says Black Caps legendHe captained World Test Championship winners in 2021The former New Zealand captain Kane Williamson will play no further part in the Test series against England after retiring from all international cricket with immediate effect.Williamson brings an end to a 16-year career marked by numerous accolades and by captaining his side to the title in the inaugural World Test Championship in 2021. Continue reading...
  
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• Nottinghamshire v Somerset, Yorkshire v Warwickshire, and more: county cricket, day one – live

  12-06-2026 11:46
  Updates from the latest round of Championship matches
  Mail Tanya or comment BTL | Sign up for the SpinAnd an early email lands from Tim Maitland.“I can’t shower you with the statistics, because I’ve got to get one of my dogs to the vet, but before we dive into the rest of the County Championship matches, we need to talk about the Oval.
  ”If Lord’s producing a two-day pitch that got spread over four by the weather is on one end of the scale, then firmly sat right on
  
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• Sports quiz of the week: World Cup, Knicks, T20, Giro and Serena Williams

  12-06-2026 09:00
  Have you followed the big stories in football, cricket, cycling, tennis, motor sport, basketball, rugby and athletics? Continue reading...
  
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• Ben Stokes has been extraordinary for English cricket, it should cut him some slack | Emma John

  12-06-2026 06:00
  
  The sport’s misguided morals mean England’s Test captain has been humbled for a meaningless infraction and kept off the stage for which he was madeThere are times when it’s possible to keep sport in a sensible perspective, and then there are weeks it challenges your very sanity. This has felt like one of those.Perhaps the US president erecting a cage‑fighting octagon in his back garden is – given the state of the world – not that crazy. After all, it’s p
  
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• Australia lose three wickets before scoring a run in historic ODI defeat to Bangladesh

  12-06-2026 02:10
  Australia 187-8; Bangladesh 195-5 | Bangladesh win by five wicketsTourists slump to series defeat with one game to playAustralia have slumped to their first ever ODI series defeat against Bangladesh after losing by five wickets in the second match of their three-game series.After crashing to an unprecedented 0-3 from the first two overs at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka on Tuesday, Australia recovered to salvage 187-8 from 42 overs when rain forced the players off the field at Mirpur. C
  
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