Women’s Cricket Daily – 16 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

• Following the rest day the action continues tonight in the World Cup with New Zealand taking on Sri Lanka while England play Ireland.
• The New Zealand v Sri Lanka clash is significant. Whichever team loses that match will see their chances of making the finals diminish substantially. There is much riding on this game for both teams.
• All teams have now played one game. The stats on our World Cup page are starting to show some reasonable data.
• Rwanda have taken a clear lead on the ladder in the Kwibuka tournament with victories over Malawi and Zimbabwe overnight. Brazil joined Nigeria in third place after defeating the Female Yellow Greens. (scores below) The tournament continues on Wednesday.
• Rwanda’s Henriette Ishimwe has now played 132 consecutive games, the most by any player. (In second spot, with 124 is Bangladesh’s Nigar Sultana) Henriette is now in third place in the all time wicket takers in T20 Internationals with 161.
• 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

Kwibuka Tournament

Rwanda 131/6 (Marie Bimenyimana 41*, Fanny Utagushimaninde 24, Nyasha Gwanzura 2-10, Salem Museka 2-12) defeated
Zimbabwe HP 98 (Nyasha Gwanzura 33, Adel Zimunu 22, Henriette Ishimwe 4-26, Marie Bimenyimana 2-12) by 33 runs

POTM: Henriette Ishimwe

Rwanda 155/5 (Gisele Ishimwe 66, Fanny Utagushimaninde 46, Sugeni Kananji 2-32) defeated
Malawi 87/7  (Angela Lumbe 42, Ruth Uwimana 3-6) by 68 runs

POTM:  Ruth Uwimana

Nigeria 117/5 (Salome Sunday 33, Esther Sandy 24, Christabel Chukwuonye 24, Laura Cardoso 1-10) lost to
Brazil 120/3  (Monnike Machado 48*, Roberta Moretti 43*) by 7 wickets

POTM: Monnike Machado