Women’s Cricket Daily – 15 June 2026

Welcome to today’s women’s international cricket update featuring overnight results, today’s matches, breaking news and a look back through history.

News in brief

• The Netherlands made their World Cup debut, but it wasn’t a celebration as they went down to Bangladesh by 6 wickets. (scores below)
• Meanwhile at Old Trafford, a record crowd of 18,814 turned up to watch India play Pakistan. The crowd is the highest attendance for a group stage match at a T20 World Cup. The Indian fans were the happier with India winning by 70 runs. (scores below)
• Deepti Sharma‘s 5-10 puts her back at the top of all time wicket takers in Women’s T20 Internationals with 166, nudging aside Thailand’s Thipatcha Putthawong (162). That haul of 5-10 is her best. Her previous best was 5-19 against South Africa in April.
• All teams have now played one game. The stats on our World Cup page are starting to show some reasonable data.Today is a rest day.
• Three matches in Kigali in the Kwibuka tournament. Victories to Rwanda, Zimbabwe and Nigeria. (scores below)
• The Friday quiz is still open. Can you score a perfect 20 as we name names… Click here to do the Nicknames Quiz.

Overnight Scores

World Cup

Netherlands 139/8 (Babette de Leede 50, Heather Siegers 16, Marufa Akter 2-31 ) lost to
Bangladesh 141/4  (Juairiya Ferdous 50, Sharmin Akter 37*,  Caroline de Lange 2-27) by 6 wickets

POTM: Juairiya Ferdous

India 170/6 (Smriti Mandhana 68, Harmanpreet Kaur 36, Richa Ghosh 34, Fatima Sana 2-33, Sadia Iqbal 2-41) defeated
Pakistan 106  (Muneeba Ali 41, Deepti Sharma 5-10, Shree Charani 3-21) by 70 runs

POTM: Deepti Sharma

Kwibuka Tournament

Rwanda 179/6 (Fanny Utagushimaninde 45, Georgette Ingabire 45, Carolina Nascimento 4-29) defeated
Brazil 121  (Lindsay Boas 45, Henriette Ishimwe 4-23, Marie Bimenyimana 3-10, Ruth Uwimana 2-23) by 58 runs

POTM:Henriette Ishimwe

Zimbabwe HP 110 (Nyasha Gwanzura 27, Vanessa Phiri 3-25, Lidia Dimba 2-8) defeated
Malawi 83/5  (Sugeni Kananji 17, Euless Chiralile 15, Passionate Munorwei 1-9, Olinder Chare 1-12) by 27 runs

POTM:  Nyasha Gwanzura

Malawi 48 (Sugeni Kananji 26, Lillian Udeh 4-2, Favour Eseigbe 4-4) lost to
Nigeria 49/5  (Christabel Chukwuonye 20, Adeshola Adekunle 12, Vanessa Phiri 2-22) by 5 wickets

POTM:Favour Eseigbe