Key events
10th over: England 91-2 (Dunkley 57, Capsey 26) Now Alice Capsey gets into the act, sweeping four and then cutting four from Fraser’s spin, one side of the wicket and then the other. Dunkley adds another of her own, cut shot, whack! Scotland bleeding runs, up past nine an over.
Half century! Dunkley 50 from 33 balls
9th over: England 76-2 (Dunkley 52, Capsey 16) A celebration for Dunkley, after her successful counterattack, and more sloppy fielding from Scotland as they let through another Capsey boundary, her second of the Chatterji over. They’ve been far too generous and blown their good start.
8th over: England 63-2 (Dunkley 49, Capsey 6) Scotland are singlehandedly resuscitating England’s innings here. Chatterji at fine leg slides across and fumbles an easy stop over the rope for four, to Capsey’s benefit. Hannah Rainey the unlucky bowler there.
7th over: England 55-2 (Dunkley 46, Capsey 1) Dropped! And dropped again! Dunkley twice in two balls, facing Gordon. Hits her out to deep midwicket, where Katherine Fraser grasses a tough one running around to her right, has to lunge for it, but definitely doable. And then no excuses for McColl, who took the opening catch but snatches at this one at point, as Dunkley cuts. Three chances for Dunkley, who is damaging Scotland badly. Gordon’s over takes 1 for 4, but should have been two wickets or more.
WICKET! Wyatt-Hodge c Bryce b Gordon 7
Gone! Gordon comes back, wicket off the first ball of her over once again. England’s remaining opener tries to join in the fun, slogs across the line at a short ball, and skews it to mid on.
6th over: England 51-1 (Wyatt-Hodge 7, Dunkley 43) Day Out Dunkley! She’s been out of favour and out of form for a while, but Nat Sciver-Brunt’s absence has given her a chance, and she is seizing it. Fraser comes on, the offie, and Dunkley racks up three boundaries in the over again. Bang, over backward point, bang, down the ground, and bang, sliced through deep third. Wyatt-Hodge has 7 runs of a 50 partnership! Scotland started with a wicket but England have seized the Powerplay.
5th over: England 37-1 (Wyatt-Hodge 6, Dunkley 30) Dunkley again goes after Bryce, this time moving across to paddle four through fine leg. Wyatt-Hodge finally tries to go for a big shot, it plus as she clears cover but she has time to run three.
Teams
Didn’t get time for these earlier, here you go.
England
Amy Jones +
Danni Wyatt-Hodge
Sophia Dunkley
Alice Capsey
Heather Knight
Freya Kemp
Danielle Gibson
Charlotte Dean *
Sophie Ecclestone
Linsey Smith
Lauren Bell
Scotland
Darcey Carter
Katherine Fraser
Kathryn Bryce *
Sarah Bryce +
Megan McColl
Pippa Sproul
Priyanaz Chatterji
Kirstie Gordon
Chloe Abel
Hannah Rainey
Gabriella Fontela
4th over: England 28-1 (Wyatt-Hodge 3, Dunkley 24) They’ve endured some punches, now England are punching back. Dunkley senses this might be her night, and her job to take the game on, so she snatches three boundaries from Fontenla’s over. Goes inside out over cover, then uses the change in line to go over the leg side twice. Since when was Danni Wyatt-Hodge so quiet while someone else scores the runs!
3rd over: England 14-1 (Wyatt-Hodge 2, Dunkley 11) And that is dropped! Bryce, Kathryn, brings herself on to bowl, booming inswingers at medium pace, and Dunkley sweeps her to Chatterji at backward square leg, who has to throw herself to her left to get one hand on the ball, but could have held onto it. Dunkley gets a run, then regains strike, and celebrates her reprieve by heaving with the swing over long on, onto the cushion on the full for six.
2nd over: England 5-1 (Wyatt-Hodge 1, Dunkley 4) Backed up well by Gabriela Fontenla, the Scottish seamer is on the money early, and England’s batters aren’t game to take her one. Just four runs from the over, prodding about.
WICKET! Jones c McColl b Gordon 0
1st over: England 1-1 (Wyatt-Hodge 0, Dunkley 1) Dream start for Scotland! A wicket first ball for Kirstie Gordon would have been a good thing for England once, but she’s changed countries since then. The left-arm spinner loops up the first ball of the innings, and Amy Jones, the England keeper, gets forward and simply chips it to mid off. The kind of dismissal we’ve seen so often from her, but usually while facing Ellyse Perry. She’s gone, and so is the first over for a single.
Sorry we didn’t give you more preamble, we have two consecutive World Cups going on and it’s rather a stretch here at the Guardian sport desk. But we’re good to go as the game begins.
Preamble
Hello! It’s time for a British Isles derby in the women’s T20 World Cup. Is that appropriate nomenclature? I don’t know, I’m from Australia, someone will tell me off if necessary. But England are playing Scotland, who were so good against West Indies the other night before falling short. We’ll see how we go.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2026/jun/20/england-v-scotland-womens-t20-cricket-world-cup-live
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