NEW DELHI: In an exhilarating contest at Southampton, Australia secured a outstanding three-run victory over England within the second one-day worldwide to retain the Girls’s Ashes.
Regardless of an excellent unbeaten century by England’s Nat Sciver-Brunt, her workforce fell agonizingly brief, reaching 279-7 in pursuit of the goal of 283.
In a nail-biting closing ball, Sciver-Brunt might solely handle a single in opposition to Jess Jonassen, ending on 111 not out.
With this win, Australia now maintain an insurmountable 8-6 factors lead within the multi-format sequence.
The perfect England can obtain is an 8-Eight draw by successful the third and closing ODI in Taunton on Tuesday. Nonetheless, even within the occasion of a sequence draw, Australia will retain the Ashes.
The defining second of Australia’s triumph on Sunday got here within the final over of their innings, the place Georgia Wareham smashed 26 runs off England’s Lauren Bell.
As double white-ball world champions, Australia had initially taken a commanding 6-Zero lead within the sequence earlier than England mounted a comeback, successful three consecutive matches.
This included victories in two of the three Twenty20s and the primary ODI, leveling the sequence at 6-6. Nonetheless, England’s quest for his or her first Ashes sequence win since 2014 stays unfulfilled after Australia’s slender triumph within the second ODI.
Regardless of an excellent unbeaten century by England’s Nat Sciver-Brunt, her workforce fell agonizingly brief, reaching 279-7 in pursuit of the goal of 283.
In a nail-biting closing ball, Sciver-Brunt might solely handle a single in opposition to Jess Jonassen, ending on 111 not out.
With this win, Australia now maintain an insurmountable 8-6 factors lead within the multi-format sequence.
The perfect England can obtain is an 8-Eight draw by successful the third and closing ODI in Taunton on Tuesday. Nonetheless, even within the occasion of a sequence draw, Australia will retain the Ashes.
The defining second of Australia’s triumph on Sunday got here within the final over of their innings, the place Georgia Wareham smashed 26 runs off England’s Lauren Bell.
As double white-ball world champions, Australia had initially taken a commanding 6-Zero lead within the sequence earlier than England mounted a comeback, successful three consecutive matches.
This included victories in two of the three Twenty20s and the primary ODI, leveling the sequence at 6-6. Nonetheless, England’s quest for his or her first Ashes sequence win since 2014 stays unfulfilled after Australia’s slender triumph within the second ODI.
