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England give Sri Lanka the mother of all T20 beatings

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.

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