Women’s Cricket Daily – 22 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

  • Victory to West Indies over Sri Lanka gives them three from three and one foot in the door of the finals. Both them and England are on 6 points with a 4 point gap to New Zealand in 3rd place on 2 points.
  • A come from behind win over India has given South Africa’s finals chances a major boost. Australia sit at the top of Pool A with 6 points, then there’s a logjam with three teams on four, separated by NRR: India, South Africa and Bangladesh.
  • All teams have now played three games which gives our Player of the Tournament page some reasonable data. Marizanne Kapp sits at the top of the table just ahead of Smriti Mandhana and  Hayley Matthews.
  • Today is a rest day for the World Cup.
  • Did you do our cricket grounds quiz? quiz? How well do you know your international cricket grounds? Test yourself: Grounds for a Quiz.

Overnight Scores

World Cup

Sri Lanka 98 (Nilakshi de Silva 30, Hayley Matthews 3-15, Karishma Ramharack 2-15) lost to
West Indies 99/5 (Stafanie Taylor 27*, Kavisha Dilhari 2-22) by 5 wickets

POTM: Hayley Matthews

India 158/7 (Shafali Verma 31, Marizanne Kapp 2-27, ) lost to
South Africa 161/4 (Marizanne Kapp 81*, Tazmin Brits 40, Shree Charani 3-24) by 6 wickets

POTM: Marizanne Kapp