England have launched their home Women's Twenty20 World Cup in brutal fashion, crushing Sri Lanka by 87 runs at Edgbaston.
After making the highest total in tournament history, 1-219, on the back of an unbeaten 105 by opener Danni Wyatt-Hodge, England dismissed Sri Lanka for 132 on Friday (local time).
Left-arm pacer Freya Kemp took a career-best 4-21, including three wickets in one over that reduced Sri Lanka to 8-92.
But it was England's record-setting batting that shone on a sunny evening in front of 14,865 fans.
Wyatt-Hodge and Amy Jones, pushed up the order to open, combined for 100 inside 10 overs. Jones was dropped on 12 and 48 and was out for 53 off 38 balls, but her 135-run stand with Wyatt-Hodge was England's highest opening partnership in T20 World Cup history.
