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The Ashes – England subside

If England win all three T20s and the test, they regain the Ashes. As they leave Hobart, they stand 0-6 points down, so their chances are slim. Here are the teams chosen for the third ODI: Australia Alyssa Healy (captain and w-k), Phoebe Litchfield, Ellyse Perry, Beth Mooney, Annabel Sutherland, Ashleigh Gardner, Tahlia McGrath, Georgia

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The Ashes – The First ODI

After a thoroughly frustrating warm-up match that lasted less than 29 overs – it rains in Australia too – England faced the first of three ODIs at Sydney North Oval. The two teams: Australia Alyssa Healy (captain & w-k), Phoebe Litchfield, Ellyse Perry, Beth Mooney, Annabel Sutherland, Ashleigh Gardner, Tahlia McGrath, Alana King, Kim Garth,

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2025 Women’s Ashes schedule confirmed

The schedule for England’s 2025 Women’s Ashes Series in Australia has been confirmed. Following a well-contested drawn and record-breaking Ashes series on home soil last year, Heather Knight’s outfit head down under to play a multi-format series to contest three ODIs in Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart. The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) Test will be a

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When a Draw is a Victory

England v Australia – Third ODI Taunton, 18 July On another tense and exhilarating day England achieved the apparently impossible. Here are a few stats to swivel the eyes: Australia hadn’t lost an ODI series since 2013. England beat Australia in the Ashes series of seven matches 4-3. Australia retain the Ashes. The series ended

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Catches win matches, or do they?

England v Australia First ODI Bristol, 12 July 2023 Have you studied sports psychology? No? Nor have I. So how do we explain how this game turned out the way it did? England won an extraordinary third match on the trot against an Australian eleven that is quite unused to reverses. In Australia’s innings England

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England ODI Squad Ashes 2023

After the Trent Bridge test match Jon Lewis has made two changes for his ODI squad to face Australia in the final trio of games in the 2023 Ashes. Tammy Beaumont and Lauren Filer reappear at the expense of Alice Davidson-Richards and Emma Lamb. Heather Knight (captain, Western Storm) Tammy Beaumont (The Blaze) Lauren Bell

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‘Aussie fans are leaving the ground’

England v Australia – Third T20 Lord’s – Attendance 21,610! England achieved the impossible by beating the world champions for the second time in three, to inflict a first series defeat on the Aussies for six years. Gold shirts were spotted leaving the ground before the final action. For most of the Australian innings the

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‘Australia never lose’

England v Australia – T20 The Oval Teams: England Heather Knight (captain), Lauren Bell, Alice Capsey, Charlie Dean, Sophia Dunkley, Sophie Ecclestone, Danielle Gibson, Sarah Glenn, Amy Jones, Nat Sciver-Brunt, Danielle Wyatt Australia Beth Mooney, Alyssa Healy (captain), Tahlia McGrath, Ashleigh Gardner, Ellyse Perry, Grace Harris, Annabel Sutherland, Georgia Wareham, Jess Jonassen, Megan Schutt, Darcie

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Can I play, please?

Who to choose for the rest of the Ashes Series On the first of next month England and Australia switch from the sublime, a five-day test match, to ..(ahem), a T20 blast/thump/smash/bash. But this will still form part of the ongoing Ashes series. After their loss at Trent Bridge, it presents England with a near

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