ENGLAND v AUSTRALIA, Women’s Ashes Test, Trent Bridge, Day Five on Monday.
SCORE: Australia (473 and 257) beat England (463 and 178) by 89 runs.
SUMMARY: After England resumed on 5-116 chasing 268, the hosts whittled the margin right down to 127 runs earlier than Ashleigh Gardner took maintain. After eradicating England’s greatest three batters on the fourth night, Gardner took all 5 wickets on Monday to complete the job rapidly for Australia. Gardner’s 8-66 gave her figures of 12-165 for the match and ensured England would not survive till lunch. Australia now take a 4-0 factors lead within the multi-format collection, with wins in two of the six remaining white-ball matches set to be sufficient to retain them the Ashes.
PLAYER OF THE MOMENT: Ashleigh Gardner. Her unimaginable day-five efficiency gave her the most effective innings and match figures in historical past by an Australian girl and the second better of all-time in each classes.
KEY MOMENT: Alyssa Healy’s stumping of rival glovewoman Amy Jones. After Jones put Healy down on 0 on day 4 earlier than Healy made 50, Healy did not provide Jones the identical probability on Monday. The Australian keeper briefly fumbled an Ashleigh Gardner ball that ripped off the pitch, however managed to regain management in time and and whip off the bails earlier than Jones may make a second effort to get her bat over the road. With 117 nonetheless required at that time and solely the tail left to bat with Danni Wyatt, the sport was pretty much as good as over.
STAT OF THE DAY: The outcome marks the tip of six straight attracts in girls’s Tests, and reveals why the addition of a fifth day for the primary time since 1992 was so vital.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “She’s going to be a real leader in this group for a long period of time. I hope that today gives her that confidence. I’m sure it will.” – Alyssa Healy, on what 26-year-old Ashleigh Gardner’s record-breaking Test can do for Australia’s future.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
