ENGLAND v AUSTRALIA, Women’s Ashes Test, Trent Bridge, Day Four on Sunday.
SCORE: England (463 and 5-116) want 152 runs to beat Australia (473 and 257) with 5 wickets in hand.
SUMMARY: A topsy-turvy day the place either side appeared like they had been in management at completely different phases. Australia fell from 1-149 to 7-198 of their third innings, earlier than Alyssa Healy scored an important 50 after being dropped first ball. England then took 3-0 to complete the innings as Sophie Ecclestone completed her second five-wicket haul of the match. England had been cruising at 0-55 in reply, earlier than Ashleigh Gardner took three fast wickets and Tahlia McGrath one in a collapse of 4-18 for England. Kim Garth additionally eliminated Sophia Dunkley late to go away Australia on high.
PLAYER OF THE MOMENT: Ashleigh Gardner. Was Australia’s finest bowler within the first innings and has now turned the sport on its head within the second. Her three wickets in her first three overs took England from accountable for the match to on the again foot and needing a day-five miracle.
KEY MOMENT: Amy Jones’ drop of Alyssa Healy first ball. Healy had scored three straight geese in Test match cricket till that time and edged Kate Cross exterior off. Jones put it down, Healy scored an important 50 and Australia had one thing to bowl at.
STAT OF THE DAY: England have to publish the very best rating within the fourth-innings of a girls’s Test to chase down 268 win at Trent Bridge, with the present mark 9-245 from final yr in Canberra.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “This is a sign of why (the fifth day) is important.” – Beth Mooney, with this Test solely the second girls’s one in historical past to have 5 days scheduled. It means a end result can be achieved, ending a run of six straight drawn Tests courting again to 2017.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
