England Women’s Cricket Team

For the first time since 2017, a major women’s global cricket event is being staged in England. The ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 runs from June 12 to July 5, and the hosts come in carrying the weight of expectation that home tournaments always bring. Charlotte Edwards took over as head coach in April 2025, Nat Sciver-Brunt leads the side, and England have enough quality across both departments to challenge any team in this draw. They last won the T20 World Cup in 2009. Lord’s hosts the final this time.

England Women

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Administration & Support Staff

Following a management restructure in 2025, England’s support unit for the 2026 campaign:

Managing Director of England Women’s Cricket: Clare Connor
Head Coach: Charlotte Edwards (appointed April 2025, former England captain)
Assistant Coach, Spin Bowling: Tom Smith (joined early 2026)
Assistant Coach, Batting: Jon Lewis
Assistant Coach: Luke Williams

History

England did not just participate in the early history of women’s cricket. In a real sense, they started it.

The inaugural Women’s Cricket World Cup was held in England in 1973, two years before the men’s equivalent was first played. England won it, beating Australia in the deciding round-robin match by 92 runs, with Enid Bakewell among the central figures of that tournament.

In the decades since, England have been one of the few sides capable of consistently breaking through Australia’s grip on the sport. Their World Cup record across formats:

Tournament	Championship Years	Total Titles
ICC Women’s ODI World Cup	1973, 1993, 2009, 2017	4
ICC Women’s T20 World Cup	2009	1

The 2009 season is the one England cricket people still talk about. They won both the ODI World Cup and the inaugural T20 World Cup within months of each other. No nation has done that in women’s cricket since.

England’s record in Women’s T20 World Cup

Year	Round	Position	Mat	Won	Lost	NR
2009	Champions	1/8	5	5	0	0
2010	Group Stage	5/8	3	1	2	0
2012	Runners-up	2/8	5	4	1	0
2014	Runners-up	2/10	6	4	2	0
2016	Semi-finals	4/10	5	4	1	0
2018	Runners-up	2/10	6	3	2	1
2020	Semi-finals	4/10	5	3	1	1
2023	Semi-finals	3/10	5	4	1	0
2024	Group Stage	6/10	4	3	1	0
Total	1 Title		44	31	11	2

England Women’s Key Players

Nat Sciver-Brunt

Sciver-Brunt captains the side and is, on most serious assessments, one of the two or three best all-rounders in the women’s game right now. She bats with authority in the middle order, holds innings together when the top order has wobbled, and bowls medium-pace that takes wickets at useful moments rather than just filling overs. Captaining England at a home World Cup is a different kind of pressure from leading on tour. She has handled pressure well before.

Sophie Ecclestone

Ecclestone has been the world’s top-ranked T20I bowler for long enough that it has stopped being news. What she does is accurate left-arm spin with enough variation in flight and turn to keep batters guessing even when they know what she is trying to do. Opposition teams plan specifically for her overs, and it usually does not help them much. She will bowl through the middle of this tournament, and those spells tend to be where matches are won.

Danni Wyatt-Hodge

Wyatt-Hodge is walking into her eighth T20 World Cup. That is a career that stretches back through most of the modern era of women’s T20 cricket, and she is still at the top of the England order, still hitting the ball as hard as she did earlier in that run. She opens the batting and goes hard early, reading conditions well enough to adjust without losing the aggression. England’s totals usually reflect how her powerplay goes.