England W vs Sri Lanka W: The 12th match of the Women’s ODI World Cup 2025 between England and Sri Lanka is to be played in Colombo. The England team has been undefeated in this tournament so far, while the Sri Lankan team is looking for its first win.
NZ vs BAN, ICC Women’s World Cup 2025: Today the 12th match of the ICC Women’s ODI World Cup 2025 will be played between England and Sri Lanka. Both the teams will face each other at the R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka. The match will start at 3:00 pm Indian time. While on one hand England has dominated this tournament, on the other hand Sri Lanka has not won a single match. England has played 2 matches and won both. At the same time, Sri Lanka has lost 1 in 2 and 1 was canceled due to rain. But, today the Sri Lankan team has a great opportunity to make a comeback.
Who has the upper hand on the Colombo pitch, the batsman or the bowler?
Talking about the pitch at Colombo ground, there is some help for the batsmen in the beginning, but as the match progresses, the spin bowlers start working their magic. So far, only those teams have been more successful on this ground, which have good spin bowlers or which have played the spinners well. In the last 11 matches at Premadasa Stadium, the average score of the first innings has been 252 and that of the second has been 214. The highest Women’s ODI chase on this ground is 278, which was done by Sri Lanka against India. Australia had crushed Pakistan badly in the last match on this ground.
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How is the condition of the last 10 ODIs between England and Sri Lanka?
If we look at the last 10 ODI matches between the England women’s team and the Sri Lankan women’s team, the English team has won all the matches. This means that England has completely dominated Sri Lanka. Last time in the year 2023, when the Sri Lankan team went on a tour of England, they had to face defeat in the ODI series by 2-0. Both the teams are going to face each other for the first time since the 2017 Women’s World Cup. The last time the two faced each other in the World Cup, England had won by 7 wickets.
All eyes will be on England captain Nat Cyber Brunt
All eyes are going to be on England women’s team captain Nat Cyber Brunt. The form of this player is quite excellent. Apart from this, he has scored 4124 runs for England in 123 ODI matches at an average of 46.34, in which the strike rate is 95.18. This batsman has a total of 9 centuries in his name in the ODI format. Whereas, the highest individual score is 148. If Sri Lanka wants to win this match, then Brunt will have to be disposed of cheaply.
England Women Probable Playing 11: Tammy Beaumont, Amy Jones (wk), Heather Knight, Nat Syber Brunt (c), Sophia Dunkley, Emma Lamb, Alice Capsey, Charlie Dean, Sophie Ecclestone, Lynsey Smith, Lauren Bell.
Bangladesh Women Probable Playing 11: Chamari Atapattu (captain), Hasini Perera, Harshita Madavi, Vishmi Gunaratne, Kavisha Dilhari, Neelakshi de Silva, Anushka Sanjeevani, Sugandika Kumari, Achini Kulasuriya, Udeshika Prabodhani, Inoka Ranaweera.
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