"It's Cricket's turn now": all eyes on the 2026 Women's T20 World Cup
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Henry Moeran is alongside England World Cup winners Katherine Sciver-Brunt and Alex Hartley as they look ahead to a huge summer of cricket for England's women, with the target of winning the T20 World Cup on home soil.
How has the preparation been? What is the strongest part of Charlotte Edwards' squad? And what are the minimum requirements for this set of players?
Test Match Special will have commentary of every ball of every match of the Women's T20 World Cup across BBC Sounds, 5 Sports Extra, and the BBC Sport app & website.
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| 0:42.0 | It's a huge summer for England's women hosting the T20 World Cup, |
| 0:46.3 | gets underway on the 12th of June, |
| 0:48.3 | and test match special will have ball-by-ball commentary of every single match of it. |
| 0:56.6 | New Zealand, the reigning champions, England, the last time they hosted a World Cup, ended up winning the thing. And I'm delighted to say I'm |
| 1:01.6 | alongside two members of that winning side in the form of Catherine Siverbrunt and also Alex |
| 1:08.0 | Hartley. So much to look forward to over the course of the next few weeks and months. |
| 1:13.6 | And one thing we can say is that this is an England side where although a different format, change is afoot. |
| 1:20.6 | Just what is it, three debutants and seven changes for the last time they played in international? |
| 1:26.6 | I mean it's a huge shift. |
| 1:28.3 | Yeah, it is and it's it's one that, you know, you look at how England played in that 50 over World Cup and it almost felt like a few changes were needed and only because it felt like we need, England needed more batting. I think their bowling's been their strength for such a long period of time. You know, you've got great bowlers sat on the sideline as well. But England need a little bit more with the bat, |
| 1:49.2 | and I guess this is a huge opportunity to try and find those batters, and especially left-handed |
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