Australia v England: Girls’s Ashes second cricket one-day worldwide – dwell | Girls’s Ashes
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Key occasions
thirty second over: Australia 153-7 (King 1, Garth 0) Kim Garth and Alana King are on the crease, Australia have misplaced 5 wickets for 22 runs.
WICKET! McGrath b Filer 1 (Australia 153-7)
Lauren Filer returns and scuds one by Tahlia McGrath’s defences. Leg stump knocked again and Australia are tottering now!
WICKET! Gardner b Capsey 2 (Australia 150-6)
Alice Capsey is on one in Melbourne! She flights a scrumptious off break that grips and turns previous Ash Gardner’s groping blade, the ball hits the stumps and sends the bails flying into the air like a pair of quizzical eyebrows.
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Capsey has 3-12 off 4 overs and has bent the match England’s manner.
thirty first over: Australia 150-5 (McGrath 0, King 0)
thirtieth over: Australia 150-5 (Gardner 1, McGrath 0) 150 up for Australia however their nostril is bloodied. Ecclestone’s seventh over disappears in flash for only one Ash Gardner single.
twenty ninth over: Australia 149-5 (Gardner 1, McGrath 0) Tahlia McGrath joins Gardner. England can instantly dare to dream of proscribing Australia to lower than 250, or perhaps even much less. Capsey finishes with a dot to make it a wicket maiden.
WICKET! Perry lbw b Capsey 60 (Australia 149-5)
A HUGE wicket for Capsey and England as Ellyse Perry is trapped LBW! There’s a torturously lengthy await either side because the third umpire has a glance to resolve if there was an inside edge however the spike on snicko was bat hitting pad… as soon as that was waved by England have been in enterprise, the ball was happening to knock out center stump. Perry on her manner for a really properly made 60.
Effectively performed Alice Capsey, she didn’t let her head go down after the drop and has now picked up two essential wickets.
twenty eighth over: Australia 149-4 (Perry 60, Gardner 1) Ecclestone practically snares Gardner, the batter seems to be aggressive and makes an attempt a booming drive, dragging her again foot out of the crease within the course of. Amy Jones whips off the bails and vociferously appeals. Shut! The replays present Gardner simply managed to get her foot again in time.
twenty seventh over: Australia 146-4 (Perry 58, Gardner 0) Essential passage of play proper now, Ash Gardner joins Perry within the center.
WICKET! Sutherland c Knight b Capsey 11 (Australia 146-4)
Knight clings on within the covers! Capsey has the wicket of Sutherland in her second over and that sound you’ll be able to hear is the English sigh of reduction! Sutherlan aggressive and got here down the wicket however didn’t fairly get to the pitch, she hit it properly however within the air and Knight plucked it out of the air on her proper hand facet.
twenty sixth over: Australia 142-3 (Perry 56, Sutherland 9) Ecclestone will get out and in of her fifth over for the price of simply two runs. England nonetheless eager about the catch little doubt, Sutherland is such a harmful participant, in the event that they pocketed her there then they’d have been on high for the primary time within the collection.
twenty fifth over: Australia 140-3 (Perry 55, Sutherland 8) DROP! Alice Capsey comes on to bowl and shells an opportunity off her first ball! Surtherland bunted a ball again simply above head peak however the likelihood caught Capsey off her guard and she or he snatched at it. That’s an enormous second!
Sutherland shrugs it off and performs a superbly checked drive over mid-off for SIX. That won’t make Capsey really feel any higher, neither will the reminiscence of dropping a dolly in Sydney, England can’t afford to present lives to this stellar Aussie batting line up.
twenty fourth over: Australia 132-3 (Perry 54, Sutherland 1) Annabel Sutherland is the brand new batter, Ecclestone has a slip in place and finishes the over with a full ball that the brand new batter drives for a single. England have a sniff.
WICKET! Mooney lbw b Ecclestone 12 (Australia 131-3)
Ecclestone and England name for a overview after a ball grips and turns again into the left-handed Mooney, beating her ahead pod and thudding into the again leg. This shall be shut…
GONE! Three reds on the DRS and England mob their star spinner. Pretty ball and an excellent overview after the umpire was unmoved.
twenty third over: Australia 127-2 (Perry 52, Mooney 10) Chic batting from Ellyse Perry! She whips Charlie Dean by midwicket for 4 after which launches an off drive off the following ball to make it consecutive boundaries and convey up her FIFTY. She’s not even midway to creating her common* on this floor.
*103 runs, as you’re asking. I do know.
twenty second over: Australia 117-2 (Perry 43, Mooney 9) Ellyse Perry makes use of her ft and lofts Ecclestone again over her head for SIX! That’s some shot, particularly off Ecclestone. The Aussies regarded to assault the left-arm spinner within the first sport and that appears to be the tactic once more, to not let her wheel away, be part of the dots and construct strain.
Ooooft! Practically a run out as Perry drops into the off facet and Mooney comes for the one, Perry hesitates briefly earlier than committing and it might have price her had Wyatt-Hodge’s throw hit the stumps moderately than ricocheting off her bat as she stretched for her floor.
twenty first over: Australia 108-2 (Perry 35, Mooney 8) Charlie Dean has discovered her groove, touchdown the ball on a postage stamp and never giving any width, simply two runs off the over.
twentieth over: Australia 106-2 (Perry 34, Mooney 7) Ecclestone and Mooney measurement one another up, 4 dot balls to the bowler and a wrist-snapping cowl drive for 4 by the batter. Correct criggit.
nineteenth over: Australia 100-2 (Perry 34, Mooney 2) Knight brings in a slip to Mooney, I like that intent from the England skipper, her facet must maintain taking wickets, the Aussie batting card is longer than a lemurs story. Mooney likes to return and punch by the off facet so it’s ploy to have a catcher in case the sting is discovered. Good over from Dean, simply two singles off it and the hundred up for Australia.
18th over: Australia 98-2 (Perry 33, Mooney 1) Ecclestone roared with delight when she bagged the wicket and she or he roars with one thing approaching disgust as she bowls too full to Perry who drives by the covers, Maia Bouchier then dives over the ball and it skims away to the fence. The center overs tussle begins!
WICKET! Litchfield lbw b Ecclestone 29 (Australia 92-2)
Ecclestone strikes along with her second ball! Litchfield makes an attempt a reverse-sweep however the ball is simply too full and hits her on the shin in entrance of the stumps. The umpire raises the digit of doom and Litchfield trudges off, opting to not overview after a quick dialogue with Perry. England wanted that.
seventeenth over: Australia 90-1 (Litchfield 27, Perry 28) Ellyse Perry opens the shoulders, dancing down the wicket and lofting Charlie Dean over long-on for SIX! Sweetly struck, Perry laps Litchfield within the runs and the partnership approaches fifty. Sophie Ecclestone is warming up, England want their star bowler to step up.
sixteenth over: Australia 82-1 (Litchfield 26, Perry 21) Sciver-Brunt is correct, touchdown it on a size exterior off stump, simply three singles eked off the over.
fifteenth over: Australia 79-1 (Litchfield 25, Perry 19) Properly performed from Litchfield as she will get the reverse-ramp out to Charlie Dean and nails it for 4.
Speaking of ominous. I’ve simply heard my toddler mee-maw from the following room. This OBO might be about to get a visitor ‘star’. Sleep eh, who wants it… erm EVERYONE.
PleasePleasePleaseLetMeLetMeLetMe… get by this shift unscathed.
14th over: Australia 73-1 (Litchfield 20, Perry 18) Knight brings in a foolish mid-on for Litchfield who’s struggling to time the ball. Australia take 4 from the over and that’ll be drinks. Electrolytes, get your Electrolytes!
Foolish mid-on eh? The thoughts wanders again to this…
thirteenth over: Australia 69-1 (Litchfield 17, Perry 17) Bosh! Filer whangs down one other brief ball however Perry is onto it in a flash, carving over level for 4 runs. Perry has began very properly, ominous indicators for England.
twelfth over: Australia 62-1 (Litchfield 16, Perry 11) 5 runs off Sciver-Brunt, Perry picks off a few twos into the leg facet and nabs the strike off the final ball with a single in the identical space.
eleventh over: Australia 57-1 (Litchfield 16, Perry 6) Filer returns and bangs just a few briefly, Perry seems uncomfortable to at least one that bounces sharply and it takes her glove however lands wanting slip. Each batters are watchful and use smooth palms to drop into the gaps and rotate strike, 4 single off the over.
tenth over: Australia 53-1 (Litchfield 14, Perry 4) Litchfield picks up her second boundary by driving Sciver-Brunt down the bottom. Australia convey up fifty within the tenth over.
ninth over: Australia 48-1 (Litchfield 9, Perry 4) Lauren Bell is discovering a pleasant little bit of form on the market, she jags one away that Perry inside edges onto her pad. Shot! There’s the category of Perry although, places the final ball out of her thoughts after which stands tall to punch by level off the again foot to open her account with a boundary.
Right here comes Ellyse Perry along with her ABOVE ONE HUNDRED AVERAGE ON THIS GROUND.
WICKET! Healy c Jones b Bell 29 (Australia 43-1)
There it’s! Bell sends down a magnificence that attracts Healy into the drive and shapes away late, taking the sting and Amy Jones does the remaining with the gloves. Massive wicket! The girl in kind heads again to the sheds.
eighth over: Australia 43-0 (Litchfield 9, Healy 29) Nat Sciver-Brunt replaces Filer and is greeted by a lighting handed Healy who pulls her first supply away for 4! Three additional singles make it seven off NSB’s first over. England want a breakthrough…
seventh over: Australia 36-0 (Litchfield 8, Healy 23) Healy practically drags on first ball with a waft exterior off stump, the ball runs away for a single and brings Litchfield on strike. All of a sudden the Aussie openers look in a little bit of strife! Litchfield practically chops on herself after which there’s large enchantment for a caught behind however the umpire rightly says no and England, rightly, don’t overview. Simply the one run off the over.
sixth over: Australia 35-0 (Litchfield 8, Healy 22) Litchfield has struggled to time the ball thus far, particularly compared to the positively purring Healy, however she does get a pull shot away off Filer to notch up her first boundary. England haven’t regarded that threatening thus far, the solar is totally out and the wicket is getting extra biscuit colored by the minute.
“I’m checking in from Salvador, Bahia in NE Brazil, the cradle of capoeira!” says Cressida Evans. “The place, sadly everybody thinks cricket is an offshoot of baseball. By no means thoughts, come on ladies!”
The cradle of capoeira certainly! We’ll do properly to beat that Cressida.
fifth over: Australia 30-0 (Litchfield 4, Healy 21) A tighter over from Bell, dot balls maintain Litchfield tied down and the opener makes an attempt a dangerous trot down and loft excessive, the ball lands over the infield and plugs, the batters come again for 2 runs.
4th over: Australia 28-0 (Litchfield 2, Healy 21) Filer seems extra settled after the bottom has been sawdusted and hamered at her finish, an honest over is blotted by a half volley on the final that Healy pings away in entrance of sq. for 4. Chic batting from the Aussie captain.
third over: Australia 23-0 (Litchfield 1, Healy 17) One other good over for Australia as Healy test drives Bell down the bottom for 4. The Aussie skipper is in high quality fettle. Bell provides away one other couple of wides down the leg facet and Litchfield will get off the mark with a squeeze to sq. leg off an honest yorker.
2nd over: Australia 15-0 (Litchfield 0, Healy 12) Alyssa Healy is off to a flier! She pulls Filer’s first ball away over midwicket for 4 and follows up subsequent ball by crunching the over correction half volley away by the covers for 4 extra. Filer is having some bother along with her touchdown foot and the bottom employees are summoned to do some earth pummelling. Filer’s first ball again is pushed for an additional 4 by Healy!
The England seamer doesn’t look blissful, I feel she feels the earth is shifting beneath her ft, and never in a Carole King kinda manner.
Lauren Filer will share the brand new ball.
Andy Roberts is off one thing of a future (aptly given his title) within the emails.
“Hey James, Andy in FNQ listening alongside and loving the early begin – cricket underway at 9am is a superb begin to the day! Wanting ahead to Healy and co. dominating once more, really feel they’ve only a bit an excessive amount of class throughout the board for England (or anybody else actually). HOWEVER…”
(right here it comes… gulp)
“I’ve a little bit of a gripe. I really like the Guardian OBO protection, however am pissed off that for cricket in Australia the Guardian constantly shows the rating the mistaken manner round. If I’m watching cricket performed in Australia, on a Guardian Australian version web page, the wickets actually ought to be BEFORE the runs. I perceive that for cricket in England or elsewhere the reverse is true, however that is match is being performed in AUSTRALIA and I entry the OBO through The Guardian AUSTRALIAN version. I hope I can rely on you to encourage the editors to make the suitable modifications.”
I kind of see what you might be saying Andy however my mind, coronary heart, hell, my soul, simply gained’t enable me to do it the Antipodean manner. Discuss an previous canine and new methods, I can barely get myself into matching socks lately man! `Subsequent you’ll be asking me to catch with my palms dealing with upwards and begin ingesting beer out of miniscule receptacles…. Simply kidding cobbah.
There undoubtedly is a cause why we do it this manner, to maintain it uniform and all that more than likely. The Guardian huge canine editors will in fact all be studying this proper now as they talk about my inevitable and hefty pay rise so perhaps certainly one of them shall be in contact.
1st over: Australia 2-0 (Litchfield 0, Healy 0) Lauren Bell begins for England with the ball. She bowled properly within the first sport however exhibits some indicators of nerves early on by spearing a pair down the leg facet to provide the umpire an early arm stretch.
Bell is into her groove quickly sufficient although, the remainder of the over is full because the tall seamer goes looking for some early swing, she’ll have to seek out it pronto, the solar is beginning to burn by in Melbourne. Litchfield defends and it’s simply two runs off the primary over.
Ben Mimmack is an early contender within the OBO mailbag:
“It’s in all probability not very fascinating, seeing as virtually everybody within the US appears to be shifting right here lately, however I’m following from Dallas, TX. It’s far-flung from each the UK and Aus although and nonetheless a bit snowy from the winter storm we had final week. Cheers!”
Nice to have you ever on board Ben. I used to be going to name you ‘cowboy’ then however thought higher of it.
The gamers are popping out as I kind – yeehaw!
The climate is a bit overcast in Melbourne which gladdens my coronary heart beneath a black treacle skied Blighty. Extra importantly it’ll present some first rate circumstances for each Laurens Bell and Filer to make early inroads with the shiny white Kookaburra.
Time to make a pre-play espresso, we’re about quarter-hour away from the primary ball. Tell us the place you might be tuning in from, furthest flung/most fascinating location will get an as but undisclosed prize*.
*OBO infamy not adequate for you eh? Eh?
The ECB have issued a fast replace on Kate Cross, it seems she continues to be not fairly totally match, I’m certain we’ll see her make an look within the collection earlier than too lengthy.
“Kate Cross has remained in Sydney to coach and proceed her return to play.”
Each captains point out they need their sides to be extra “ruthless” and “scientific” in right this moment’s match. Australia have by no means misplaced on the Junction Oval, a incontrovertible fact that Alyssa Healy wasn’t conscious of as she was knowledgeable on the toss, “thanks for the great vibes earlier than we begin” she grins.
On the flip facet, England have gained the final seven matches during which they’ve chased… sport on!
Each groups are unchanged from Sydney:
Australia 1 Alyssa Healy (c & wk), 2 Phoebe Litchfield, 3 Ellyse Perry, 4 Beth Mooney, 5 Annabel Sutherland, 6 Ashleigh Gardner, 7 Tahlia McGrath, 8 Alana King, 9 Kim Garth, 10 Megan Schutt, 11 Darcie Brown
England 1 Tammy Beaumont, 2 Maia Bouchier, 3 Heather Knight (c), 4 Nat Sciver-Brunt, 5 Danni Wyatt-Hodge, 6 Amy Jones (wk), 7 Alice Capsey, 8 Charlie Dean, 9 Sophie Ecclestone, 10 Lauren Filer, 11 Lauren Bell
England win the toss and select to bowl first!
Heather Knight calls the coin accurately and inserts Australia on a inexperienced tinged pitch that she thinks may assist her seamers. Groups incoming, will Kate Cross be match to play for the guests? They missed her expertise and tight lined nous in Sydney…
The boys’s Ashes is a good distance off in conventional months and weeks notation. Speaking about it at this distance is a breach of protocol, a crimson flag, sign for a weary roll of the eyes. It’s Massive Three pandering, disrespectful to extra marginalised nations, a diminishing of the contests in between.
It additionally entails reaching rudely throughout the Girls’s Ashes, which kicked off over the weekend in Sydney, all set to be a genuinely fascinating spectacle. Australia have the numbers, the celebrities and the countless all-rounders. England have depth, dependable medium tempo, dogged spin, and the quickest bowler in Lauren Filer, who was genuinely difficult in South Africa, however struggled to plant her ft throughout a rain-addled warmup this previous week.”
Some pre toss studying to your delectation:
Preamble
James Wallace
Whats up and welcome to the second instalment of the 2025 Girls’s Ashes. At this time’s fifty over bout takes place in Melbourne’s Junction Oval and comes scorching on the heels of the house facet taking the spoils (two factors) in Sydney throughout the first encounter of the collection on the weekend.
That first sport was a cushty win for Alyssa Healy’s expertise toting XI, albeit they didn’t need to be in high gear to see off an undercooked England facet.
Heather Knight will wish to see an enchancment in all departments from her crew right this moment – the highest order batters must not squander promising begins, kick on and make impactful scores and the bowling unit must tighten up and fling down far fewer 4 balls.
Within the discipline, England’s butter-fingered catching was notable as soon as once more after their likelihood squandering/turf bothering efforts in T20 World Cup just a few months again.
With two extra ODIs (together with this one) and three T20s up for grabs earlier than the historic day/night time Check match on the MCG on the finish of the month there are nonetheless loads of factors on supply and punches to be thrown in what might but develop into a humdinger of a collection.
I’m right here in an icily fronded and window-fogged London to convey you the primary half of the motion from Melbourne earlier than Martin Pegan will tag in for the chase.
Play will get underway in an hour’s time – 10.05am AEDT and 11.05pm GMT – do tell us in case you are tuning in by clicking the e-mail hyperlink on the left flank of this web page and typing out a missive. The OBO is nothing with out the wit and charisma of its punters (particularly within the wee small hours, belief me).
I’ll be again quickly with information of the groups and the toss and to hopefully trawl by your iridescent correspondence. No strain…
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