Ladies’s Ashes: Australia v England, first one-day worldwide – stay | Ladies’s Ashes

Australian XI: Alyssa Healy (c & wk), Phoebe Litchfield, Ellyse Perry, Beth Mooney, Annabel Sutherland, Ash Gardner, Tahlia McGrath, Alana King, Kim Garth, Megan Schutt, Darcie Brown.

England XI: Tammy Beaumont, Maia Bouchier, Heather Knight (c), Nat Sciver-Brunt, Danni Wyatt-Hodge, Amy Jones (wk), Alice Capsey, Charlie Dean, Sophie Ecclestone, Lauren Filer, Lauren Bell.

No Kate Cross, who hasn’t recovered from her again harm. England will miss her within the energy play and it leaves an inexperienced tempo bowling assault.

Successful captain Alyssa Healy says. “I believe there may be at all times a bit of bit in it early, and although we’re beginning a bit later than we might domestically, hopefully if we are able to get the job performed early on and get a few wickets we are able to limit them to one thing chaseable. I’m again out within the gloves right now, its been a few months. No crew modifications from the final recreation in New Zealand.”

11 January: First ODI (11:30pm GMT), North Sydney Oval (2 factors)

13 January: Second ODI (11:05pm GMT), CitiPower Centre, Melbourne (2 factors)

15 January: Third ODI (11:05pm GMT), Ninja Stadium, Hobart (2 factors)

20 January: First T20 (08:40am GMT), Sydney Cricket Floor (2 factors)

23 January: Second T20 (08:40am GMT), Manuka Oval, Canberra (2 factors)

25 January: Third T20 (08:10am GMT), Adelaide Oval (2 factors)

30 January-2 February: One-off Check (03:30am GMT), Melbourne Cricket Floor (4 factors)

“Beautiful sunshine this morning. Forecast the most effective it has been all week (thundery rain hasn’t materialised) though chance of showers afterward this afternoon. That’ll be good for England who’re more likely to play Filer – she slipped over about 4 occasions whereas bowling right here on Thursday throughout the deserted Gov Common’s XI match.

Not been confirmed but however Kate Cross unlikely to characteristic for England – solely joined within the heat up yesterday very minimally.”

Hi there! The clock has tocked. The gates are open. The limbs are stretched and the coin is polished. Welcome, from a snowy Manchester, to a sunny Sydney, the place England and Australia are maneouvering into place within the first match of the Ladies’s Ashes – an ODI on the North Sydney Oval.

It was eleven years in the past that England final gained the Ashes and, regardless of Australia falling earlier than the ultimate hurdle within the T20 World Cup earlier this 12 months, the hosts stay the favourites. They greedily wolfed up each India and New Zealand in sequence earlier this summer season, although England too arrive on the again of a succesful tour – theirs in South Africa earlier than Christmas.

A powerful begin might be important as a result of your entire Ashes, consisting of six white-ball video games (three 50-over, three T20) and one Check, is being crammed into three weeks. Fall behind early and the sequence might slip out of attain – regardless of the multi-point Check being the final recreation of the sequence.

Play begins at 10.30 on the floor, 11.30GMT. Do be a part of us. The snacks are on the sidetable.