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England find themselves 10-0 down to Australia and with the possibility of a whitewash seemingly more and more likely after each match.
However, they strung together their best performance to date in Canberra and will look to bounce back ahead of the final T20I of the series.
Heather Knight is finally dismissed and England lose by 72 runs. Another tough day in the office for the visitors.
England now find themselves 12-0 down with just the Test to play. The possibility of a whitewash gets ever more likley.
Take a bow, Georgia Voll! Ecclestone slashes at a wide ball. It looks like it will just evade Voll at point but a full-length dive propels her to ball. Screamer!
Georgia Voll!
At full stretch, dives and takes a screamer! 🤯#Ashes pic.twitter.com/odR8Y0jIe8
— 7Cricket (@7Cricket) January 25, 2025
England tick along nicely after drinks before the English captain decides to take down King. First, she sweeps King for four, before clobbering the spinner down the ground for six.
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Dean looks to sweep Wareham but top edges the ball straight to square leg. Wareham has figures of 3-3 right now…
Darcie Brown gets her second of the match as Kemp looks to go over the top of the off side. The left-hander is out for five having looked to counter-attack.
England’s opener looks to go down the ground off the leg spinner but she doesn’t connect and finds the safe hands of Sutherland at long-on.
Amy Jones only lasts two balls as she is dismissed LBW looking to scoop. The keeper fails to get anything on it and reviews in vain.
Wyatt-Hodge carves Sutherland through backward point for back-to-back boundaries but the Australian all-rounder bounces back with a peach. The ball angles in and nips away (perfection) to take the top of Nat Sciver-Brunt’s off stump.
England find themselves in real trouble now. The captain joins Wyatt-Hodge at the crease with 140 required.
That's a BEAUTY from Annabel Sutherland to go straight through Sciver-Brunt!#Ashes pic.twitter.com/tJFERFhD1c
— 7Cricket (@7Cricket) January 25, 2025
Alana King fires one down the leg side, tickling the bottom edge of Alice Capsey’s bat, but the umpire says no. However, Australia review and the allrounder has to go.
Sophia Dunkley is unable to capitalise on her promotion to the top of the order, falling for five, as she skies her cover drive: simple catch for Litchfield.
Sophia Dunkley takes the first ball alongside Danni-Wyatt Hodge in a brand-new opening partnership for England.
Beth Mooney is stranded on 94* but the brilliant knock led her side to a respectable total.
The lack of a substantial inning around Mooney could come back to haunt them. It is the first innings of the T20 series that Australia have perhaps left something out on the field.
For England, spin was undoubtedly the more effective discipline – bowling 15 of the overs and taking four wickets.
Annabel Sutherland makes three off three as she looks to send Smith into orbit in the penultimate over.
She doesn’t middle any however and finds the hands of Nat Sciver-Brunt at long on.
Australia promote Grace Harris up the order and she instantly looks to take down Ecclestone, hitting her for a six and four on the spinner’s return.
But she picks out Capse at short fine leg with scoop off the bowling of Kemp next over.
Charlie Dean picks up her first wicket of the match as Ellyse Perry looks to squeeze one through the covers. But the all-rounder can only pick out Kemp on the ring.
Having passed fifty, Australia smashed Capsey and Smith for 14 and 10 in consecutive overs, including the left-arm spinner’s first boundary of the match.
Brilliant Beth Mooney dabs one into the covers to reach her fifty. It comes off 41 balls with minimal risk. Another substantial knock that puts Australia in command.
Ecclestone is back into the attack with immediate effect, dismissing the dangerous Litchfield with a slightly quicker delivery.
Bowled! Ecclestone knocks Litchfield over as she misses the attempted sweep #Ashes pic.twitter.com/Bup8BvMC4x
— 7Cricket (@7Cricket) January 25, 2025
Four overs without a boundary comes to a end as Mooney carts Filer for 12 from the ninth over, before Capsey concedes eight.
Australia’s in form star moves onto 44 from 34.
And there it is, the breakthrough. Voll looks for the slog sweep but can’t connect. Danni Wyatt-Hodge takes a good catch at deep midwicket off the bowling of Alice Capsey.
Alice Capsey gets a breakthrough for England in her first over as Georgia Voll hits her straight to the fielder #Ashes pic.twitter.com/BWUlhatT2y
— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) January 25, 2025
Even England’s trump card, Sophie Ecclestone, is unable to find a breakthrough with Mooney and Voll looking strong. Australia’s openers have barely conceded a chance.
England will be happy that Australia’s run rate hasn’t got out of hand but the lack of wickets is concerning.
Another tight over from Dean brings the run rate down to 7.3 but the major point of notice is that the misfielding begins. Sophia Dunkley lets a simple stop through her legs letting Australia scamper through for a single.
England’s two spinners concede 11 from their two overs, helping England slow the rampant partnership of Mooney and Voll.
Lauren Filer follows Kemp’s lack of control as she fails to find the right length and allows Georgia Voll to find the boundary on two occasions.
Beth Mooney finds the boundary three balls in a row to punish an erratic over from Freya Kemp. She lofts the first through the covers before dispatching two full tosses straight down the ground and then over midwicket.
