Australia v England: Women’s Ashes second cricket one-day international – live

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4th over: England 15-1 (Bouchier 7, Knight 2) Garth works away outside Knight’s off-stump with the England skipper happy to leave anything too wide to worry about. Knight clips to mid-wicket for a couple without any risk.

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3rd over: England 13-1 (Bouchier 7, Knight 0) Schutt continues to keep Bouchier playing cautiously with Healy up at the stumps as the England opener plays and misses at a couple. Bouchier can’t be held back for too long though as the aggressive right-hander dances down the pitch and pulls a shorter delivery over mid-wicket.

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2nd over: England 8-1 (Bouchier 3, Knight 0) After a couple of wide balls Garth straightens up and has the ball swinging around. Beaumont is almost caught at point after trying to use the movement back into her to nudge the ball to the on-side, then is out later in the over when trapped dead in front from much the same delivery.

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WICKET! Beaumont lbw Garth 3 (England 8-1)

Kim Garth gets the early breakthrough after Alyssa Healy has no hesitation to send a lbw appeal upstairs for a review. The Australian pacer swings the ball from outside the off-stump as Beaumont moves across and tries to clip it away onto the on-side. But there is too much movement and if not for the front pad the ball would have cannoned into middle stump.

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1st over: England 2-0 (Bouchier 2, Beaumont 0) Megan Schutt finds her line outside off and just back of a length as the usually assertive Maia Bouchier starts watchfully. A swipe narrowly misses the edge before the opener dabs a square drive almost to the rope to get the chase underway.

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Martin Pegan

Thanks James and dare I say thanks to England and their spin twins for breathing life into the Women’s Ashes just as Australia looked set to put together an ominous total at the Junction Oval that might net them two more points and a 4-0 lead in the series.

But after Alyssa Healy (29), Phoebe Litchfield (29) and Ellyse Perry (60) led the way to propel Australia to 131 for two in just the 24th over, Sophie Ecclestone (4 for 35) and Alice Capsey (3 for 22) sparked a collapse as the hosts were skittled for 180. It is Australia’s lowest ODI total since 2009.

It was expected that the pacers would have more of an impact with a green tinge to the pitch and a grey hue in the sky, and England won’t be expecting a comfortable chase with Australia blessed with variety in their attack. Openers Tammy Beaumont and Maia Bouchier are making their way out to the middle with the Australians trailing behind and Megan Schutt with ball in hand. Let’s get into it!

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James Wallace

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Seven wickets fell to spin in the middle overs as England put the skids on Australia and then ramped up the pressure. Capsey and Ecclestone the star performers and an all round better showing in the field to boot.

Australia will be disappointed with their efforts, especially as Ellyse Perry looked set for a big one before falling LBW to Capsey for 60, the part time spinner taking three wickets in consecutive overs to tilt the game England’s way. Kudos too to Heather Knight for making the decisive bowling change.

There’s plenty in the pitch for Australia’s bowlers but England have given themselves a brilliant chance of levelling up the series. Time for a spot of lunch for the players and a meeting with the pillow for me. Martin Pegan will be here shortly to guide you through the chase. Thanks for your company and comments, ta-ra.

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Australia all out for 180!

Lauren Bell skittles Kim Garth to close out the innings, England will need to score 181 runs to level the series!

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44th over: Australia 180-9 (Garth 9, Brown 4) Two singles off Filer as Australia eke out every run. A reminder that if England win this game then both sides will be level on 2 points apiece with four white ball games left worth 2 poinst each The pink ball Test closes out the series and is worth four points, the series needs to be alive for that historic occasion.

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43rd over: Australia 178-9 (Garth 8, Brown 3) Bell can’t find the final wicket, over to Lauren Filer.

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42nd over: Australia 174-9 (Garth 6, Brown 0) No five-fer for Ecclestone as Brown shuts up shop and blocks the over out. A fantastic spell though from England’s talismanic spinner, 4-35 off ten overs and her best figures against Australia.

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WICKET! Schutt c Wyatt b Ecclestone 0 (Australia 174-9)

Schutt tries a hack against the spin and gifts an easy catch. Australia capitulating in Melbourne. England need one more to finish the job. Ecclestone has three balls left… Darcie Brown takes guard.

Sophie Ecclestone and England celebrate the dismissal of Megan Schutt at the Junction Oval. Photograph: James Ross/AAP
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41st over: Australia 173-8 (Garth 7, Schutt 0) Just a single off Bell, here comes Ecclestone with her last over.

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40th over: Australia 172-8 (Garth 5, Schutt 0) Megan Schutt arrives in the middle and Australia still have ten overs left to bat, when was the last time that happened? It’s a wicket maiden for Ecclestone who now has 3-34 off nine overs. The ponytailed assassin.

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WICKET! King c Wyatt-Hodge b Ecclestone 13 (Australia 172-8)

Ecclestone snares King! The batter goes back to cut but can’t keep the ball on the deck, Wyatt-Hodge holding a good tumbling catch at backward point.

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39th over: Australia 174-7 (King 13, Garth 5) Alice Capsey’s potentially match tilting spell comes to an end as Lauren Bell is reintroduced. Bell is on the button and there are just two singles off the over, King and Garth looking to get themselves in and use up the overs. They obviously don’t give a fig about a potential earlier bedtime for your flagging OBO scribe. Such a cruel world.

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38th over: Australia 170-7 (King 12, Garth 4) Here’s Sophie Ecclestone. She has three overs up her sleeve and stitches together five dots to Alana King. Make that six, it’s a maiden.

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37th over: Australia 170-7 (King 12, Garth 4) Capsey continues and gets in and out of the over for just two singles. She has 3-22 off seven overs. England will be hoping she transfers some of this confidence over into her batting.

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36th over: Australia 168-7 (King 11, Garth 3) Filer loses her grip of the ball this time and sends down a dangerous beamer to King. She gets a warning from the umpire, another one of those and she’s done for the day with the ball. King can’t get anything on the free hit that follows. Australia rebuilding, if they can get up and past 200 then they are right back in this game, there’s plenty in this pitch and they have the bowlers to exploit it. England dearly want to get these last three wickets cheaply and keep the chase as low as possible.

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35th over: Australia 164-7 (King 9, Garth 2) Knight keeps Capsey going, I wonder if she’s tempted to bring Ecclestone back to try and shoot out the final three wickets. Four off the over as King and Garth rotate strike.

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34th over: Australia 160-7 (King 6, Garth 1) Lauren Filer is giving it her all out there, she steams in and hits the deck three times in her follow through, resembling fellow pace merchant Mark Wood as her forward momentum throws her off her feet. Three off the over as England look to blow away Australia’s lower order.

Lauren Filer hits the deck three times in one over in the second Women’s Ashes ODI at the Junction Oval. Photograph: James Ross/AAP
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33rd over: Australia 157-7 (King 5, Garth 0) Capsey nearly has her third maiden on the bounce but then drops one short and Alana King doesn’t miss out, flaying away for four through point. King and Garth are both aggressive batters who like to get bat on ball and find the boundary, their side need them right now with 17 overs left in the innings.

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32nd over: Australia 153-7 (King 1, Garth 0) Kim Garth and Alana King are at the crease, Australia have lost five wickets for 22 runs.

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WICKET! McGrath b Filer 1 (Australia 153-7)

Lauren Filer returns and scuds one through Tahlia McGrath’s defences. Leg stump knocked back and Australia are tottering now!

Tahlia McGrath is bowled by Lauren Filer to leave Australia in trouble at the Junction Oval. Photograph: Robert Cianflone/Getty Images
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WICKET! Gardner b Capsey 2 (Australia 150-6)

Alice Capsey is on one in Melbourne! She flights a delicious off break that grips and turns past Ash Gardner’s groping blade, the ball hits the stumps and sends the bails flying into the air like a pair of quizzical eyebrows.

Capsey has 3-12 off four overs and has bent the match England’s way.

31st over: Australia 150-5 (McGrath 0, King 0)

Alice Capsey and England celebrate the dismissal of Ashleigh Gardner at the Junction Oval. Photograph: Robert Cianflone/Getty Images
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30th over: Australia 150-5 (Gardner 1, McGrath 0) 150 up for Australia but their nose is bloodied. Ecclestone’s seventh over disappears in flash for just one Ash Gardner single.

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29th over: Australia 149-5 (Gardner 1, McGrath 0) Tahlia McGrath joins Gardner. England can suddenly dare to dream of restricting Australia to less than 250, or maybe even less. Capsey finishes with a dot to make it a wicket maiden.

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WICKET! Perry lbw b Capsey 60 (Australia 149-5)

A HUGE wicket for Capsey and England as Ellyse Perry is trapped LBW! There’s a torturously long wait for both sides as the third umpire has a look to decide if there was an inside edge but the spike on snicko was bat hitting pad… once that was waved through England were in business, the ball was going on to knock out middle stump. Perry on her way for a very well made 60.

Well played Alice Capsey, she didn’t let her head go down after the drop and has now picked up two crucial wickets.

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28th over: Australia 149-4 (Perry 60, Gardner 1) Ecclestone nearly snares Gardner, the batter looks to be aggressive and attempts a booming drive, dragging her back foot out of the crease in the process. Amy Jones whips off the bails and vociferously appeals. Close! The replays show Gardner just managed to get her foot back in time.

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27th over: Australia 146-4 (Perry 58, Gardner 0) Crucial passage of play right now, Ash Gardner joins Perry in the middle.

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WICKET! Sutherland c Knight b Capsey 11 (Australia 146-4)

Knight clings on in the covers! Capsey has the wicket of Sutherland in her second over and that sound you can hear is the English sigh of relief! Sutherlan looked to be aggressive and came down the wicket but didn’t quite get to the pitch, she hit it well but in the air and Knight plucked it out of the air on her right hand side.

Alice Capsey and England celebrate taking the scalp of Australia dangerwoman Annabel Sutherland. Photograph: Robert Cianflone/Getty Images
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26th over: Australia 142-3 (Perry 56, Sutherland 9) Ecclestone gets in and out of her fifth over for the cost of just two runs. England still thinking about the catch no doubt, Sutherland is such a dangerous player, if they pocketed her there then they would have been on top for the first time in the series.

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25th over: Australia 140-3 (Perry 55, Sutherland 8) DROP! Alice Capsey comes on to bowl and shells a chance off her first ball! Surtherland bunted a ball back just above head height but the chance caught Capsey off her guard and she snatched at it. That’s a big moment!

Sutherland shrugs it off and plays a perfectly checked drive over mid-off for SIX. That will not make Capsey feel any better, neither will the memory of dropping a dolly in Sydney, England can’t afford to gift lives to this stellar Aussie batting line up.

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24th over: Australia 132-3 (Perry 54, Sutherland 1) Annabel Sutherland is the new batter, Ecclestone has a slip in place and finishes the over with a full ball that the new batter drives for a single. England have a sniff.

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WICKET! Mooney lbw b Ecclestone 12 (Australia 131-3)

Ecclestone and England call for a review after a ball grips and turns back into the left-handed Mooney, beating her forward pod and thudding into the back leg. This will be close…

GONE! Three reds on the DRS and England mob their star spinner. Lovely ball and a very good review after the umpire was unmoved.

Beth Mooney is dismissed for 12 in the second Women’s ODI between Australia and England. Photograph: James Ross/AAP
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23rd over: Australia 127-2 (Perry 52, Mooney 10) Sublime batting from Ellyse Perry! She whips Charlie Dean through midwicket for four and then launches an off drive off the next ball to make it consecutive boundaries and bring up her FIFTY. She’s not even halfway to making her average* on this ground.

*103 runs, as you’re asking. I know.

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22nd over: Australia 117-2 (Perry 43, Mooney 9) Ellyse Perry uses her feet and lofts Ecclestone back over her head for SIX! That’s some shot, especially off Ecclestone. The Aussies looked to attack the left-arm spinner in the first game and that looks to be the tactic again, to not let her wheel away, join the dots and build pressure.

Ooooft! Nearly a run out as Perry drops into the off side and Mooney comes for the single, Perry hesitates briefly before committing and it would have cost her had Wyatt-Hodge’s throw hit the stumps rather than ricocheting off her bat as she stretched for her ground.

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21st over: Australia 108-2 (Perry 35, Mooney 8) Charlie Dean has found her groove, landing the ball on a postage stamp and not giving any width, just two runs off the over.

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20th over: Australia 106-2 (Perry 34, Mooney 7) Ecclestone and Mooney size each other up, four dot balls to the bowler and a wrist-snapping cover drive for four by the batter. Proper criggit.

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19th over: Australia 100-2 (Perry 34, Mooney 2) Knight brings in a slip to Mooney, I like that intent from the England skipper, her side need to keep taking wickets, the Aussie batting card is longer than a lemurs tale. Mooney likes to go back and punch through the off side so it’s a good ploy to have a catcher in case the edge is found. Nice over from Dean, just two singles off it and the hundred up for Australia.

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18th over: Australia 98-2 (Perry 33, Mooney 1) Ecclestone roared with delight when she bagged the wicket and she roars with something approaching disgust as she bowls too full to Perry who drives through the covers, Maia Bouchier then dives over the ball and it skims away to the fence. The middle overs tussle begins!

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WICKET! Litchfield lbw b Ecclestone 29 (Australia 92-2)

Ecclestone strikes with her second ball! Litchfield attempts a reverse-sweep but the ball is too full and hits her on the shin in front of the stumps. The umpire raises the digit of doom and Litchfield trudges off, opting not to review after a brief discussion with Perry. England needed that.

Phoebe Litchfield is dismissed attempting a reverse-sweep for Australia against England. Photograph: James Ross/AAP
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