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England Women announce Ashes Test squad

England Women announce their squad of 15 for the LV= Insurance Ashes Test match at Trent Bridge, with an England A side also selected. England Women have announced their Women’s Ashes Test squad for the 2023 Metro Bank Ashes Series, where Heather Knight’s outfit will kick off their Ashes summer with a five-day Test match

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Ashes ODI Sold Out!

Somerset County Cricket Club have announce that the Ashes ODI between England and Australia at the Cooper Associates County Ground on July 18th has SOLD OUT! The remaining 100 tickets were snapped up over the weekend meaning that this is the first ever Women’s International to sell out at the home of Somerset County Cricket

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Rain delays play in crucial Ashes test

Australia Women (337-9 dec and 12-2) lead England Women (297) by 52 runs Katherine Brunt took two early wickets in Australia’s second innings before the rain intervened to interrupt an intriguingly poised Test match at Canberra. Australia Women will resume on 12-2 on the final morning, leading by 52 runs. Before the rain came Heather Knight

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Final Ashes IT20 abandoned due to further rain

England Women v Australia Women – match abandoned due to rain The IT20 leg of the multi-format Women’s Ashes series ended with another abandoned game today, leaving the score at 4-2 to Australia heading into the Test match. The multi-format Ashes is the best of 16 points, with two points each for a white-ball game

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The Same Old Story – The Ashes get under way

England’s bowling proved no match for Australia’s top-order batters, Tahlia McGrath hitting a remarkable 91* of just 49 deliveries. It’s accepted policy that you bowl your best bowlers first, so Heather Knight asked Sophie Ecclestone to take the second over. The trouble is, it means she won’t be bowling when it really matters. Of course

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There’s an Ashes Series coming

On Thursday England start their quest for the Ashes. Let’s hope they have been entirely cut off from all media channels, or they will be aware of the abysmal, disheartening, unacceptable, abject (delete as preferred) performance of their menfolk in Australia (a 0-4 defeat). Much will depend on Lisa Keightley’s powers of psychology. As an

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Cutting it Fine

Late Alterations to the Ashes Programme Of the two alterations to England’s Ashes schedule in Australia, the timing and the sequencing, it is the sequencing that should prove far more important. The tour begins one week earlier than originally planned, on 20 January; or, if you include the two warm-up matches, 12 days earlier. Placing

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