Australia v England: Ladies’s Ashes second cricket one-day worldwide – dwell | Ladies’s Ashes
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The climate is a bit overcast in Melbourne which gladdens my coronary heart beneath a black treacle skied Blighty. Extra importantly it’ll present some first rate situations for each Laurens Bell and Filer to make early inroads with the shiny white Kookaburra.
Time to make a pre-play espresso, we’re about quarter-hour away from the primary ball. Tell us the place you’re tuning in from, furthest flung/most fascinating location will get an as but undisclosed prize*.
*OBO infamy not adequate for you eh? Eh?
The ECB have issued a fast replace on Kate Cross, it seems she continues to be not fairly totally match, I’m certain we’ll see her make an look within the sequence earlier than too lengthy.
“Kate Cross has remained in Sydney to coach and proceed her return to play.”
Each captains point out they need their sides to be extra “ruthless” and “medical” in at this time’s match. Australia have by no means misplaced on the Junction Oval, a incontrovertible fact that Alyssa Healy wasn’t conscious of as she was knowledgeable on the toss, “thanks for the great vibes earlier than we begin” she grins.
On the flip aspect, England have received the final seven matches by which they’ve chased… sport on!
Each groups are unchanged from Sydney:
Australia 1 Alyssa Healy (c & wk), 2 Phoebe Litchfield, 3 Ellyse Perry, 4 Beth Mooney, 5 Annabel Sutherland, 6 Ashleigh Gardner, 7 Tahlia McGrath, 8 Alana King, 9 Kim Garth, 10 Megan Schutt, 11 Darcie Brown
England 1 Tammy Beaumont, 2 Maia Bouchier, 3 Heather Knight (c), 4 Nat Sciver-Brunt, 5 Danni Wyatt-Hodge, 6 Amy Jones (wk), 7 Alice Capsey, 8 Charlie Dean, 9 Sophie Ecclestone, 10 Lauren Filer, 11 Lauren Bell
England win the toss and select to bowl first!
Heather Knight calls the coin appropriately and inserts Australia on a inexperienced tinged pitch that she thinks may assist her seamers. Groups incoming, will Kate Cross be match to play for the guests? They missed her expertise and tight lined nous in Sydney…
The boys’s Ashes is a good distance off in conventional months and weeks notation. Speaking about it at this distance is a breach of protocol, a pink flag, sign for a weary roll of the eyes. It’s Huge Three pandering, disrespectful to extra marginalised nations, a diminishing of the contests in between.
It additionally includes reaching rudely throughout the Ladies’s Ashes, which kicked off over the weekend in Sydney, all set to be a genuinely fascinating spectacle. Australia have the numbers, the celebs and the limitless all-rounders. England have depth, dependable medium tempo, dogged spin, and the quickest bowler in Lauren Filer, who was genuinely difficult in South Africa, however struggled to plant her ft throughout a rain-addled warmup this previous week.”
Some pre toss studying in your delectation:
Preamble
James Wallace
Whats up and welcome to the second instalment of the 2025 Ladies’s Ashes. Right this moment’s fifty over bout takes place in Melbourne’s Junction Oval and comes sizzling on the heels of the house aspect taking the spoils (two factors) in Sydney throughout the first encounter of the sequence on the weekend.
That first sport was a cushty win for Alyssa Healy’s expertise toting XI, albeit they didn’t must be in high gear to see off an undercooked England aspect.
Heather Knight will wish to see an enchancment in all departments from her staff at this time – the highest order batters have to not squander promising begins, kick on and make impactful scores and the bowling unit have to tighten up and fling down far fewer 4 balls.
Within the subject, England’s butter-fingered catching was notable as soon as once more after their probability squandering/turf bothering efforts in T20 World Cup a number of months again.
With two extra ODIs (together with this one) and three T20s up for grabs earlier than the historic day/evening Check match on the MCG on the finish of the month there are nonetheless loads of factors on provide and punches to be thrown in what might but change into a humdinger of a sequence.
I’m right here in an icily fronded and window-fogged London to convey you the primary half of the motion from Melbourne earlier than Martin Pegan will tag in for the chase.
Play will get underway in an hour’s time – 10.05am AEDT and 11.05pm GMT – do tell us if you’re tuning in by clicking the e-mail hyperlink on the left flank of this web page and typing out a missive. The OBO is nothing with out the wit and charisma of its punters (particularly within the wee small hours, belief me).
I’ll be again quickly with information of the groups and the toss and to hopefully trawl by way of your iridescent correspondence. No strain…
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