England has underachieved since successful the 2017 Ladies’s World Cup, and it’s decided to place that proper when it hosts the Twenty20 version on house soil in June, captain Nat Sciver-Brunt stated.
The 33-year-old changed Heather Knight as all-format captain in April final 12 months, and the T20 World Cup might be her second main Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) occasion as captain and her first at house.
Sciver-Brunt led the group on the 50-over World Cup final 12 months in India and Sri Lanka, the place it was knocked out within the semifinals by South Africa.
“We’d have favored to have received much more than now we have finished and we’d clearly like that to vary this summer time,” she instructed BBC Sport on Monday.
“A win may change what girls’s cricket appears like on this nation. Simply the carrot of that’s sufficient to encourage anybody, actually. It definitely may change what this group is about. We didn’t actually do it after 2017, however being a persistently good group is one thing that everybody tries to do. I’m hoping we could be a persistently good group and we’d love to start out off with a T20 World Cup win.”
England is drawn in Group B alongside defending champion New Zealand, West Indies, Sri Lanka, Eire and Scotland. It opens its marketing campaign within the 12-team match towards Sri Lanka on June 12.
Printed on Apr 28, 2026