Australia move one step closer to Women's Ashes clean sweep with 72-run win against England in third T20 in Adelaide
Updated 25/01/2025 at 13:08 GMT
Australia went 12-0 up in the Women's Ashes after beating England by 72 runs in the third T20 of the series. Beth Mooney stood out for the hosts, hitting 94 not out before her side limited the visitors to just 90 to wrap up a convincing victory. Australia have already retrained the Women's Ashes, but they now have a Test match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground to look ahead to.
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Australia moved one step closer to a clean sweep in the Women's Ashes after beating England by 72 runs in the third T20 of the series.
Beth Mooney hit 94 not out as the hosts finished their innings on 162-5 before bowling their rivals out for 90 in Adelaide.
The result means Australia are 3-0 up in the Women's Ashes ahead of the final fixture, a highly-anticipated Test match at Melbourne Cricket Ground on January 30.
England captain Heather Knight admitted that England struggled to build momentum with the bat after top-scoring for the visitors with a knock of 40.
"Look, they are playing well, I thought it was an outstanding innings by Beth Mooney," she said in her post-match interview. I actually thought we bowled pretty well, identified that spin was pretty hard, went pretty spin heavy in the middle, and it worked pretty well for us.
"It felt like it was on, the pitch was pretty decent, but obviously when you lose all those wickets it is hard to catch up. The pitch was OK, maybe kept it a bit low, I think they went into the wicket with lots of their balls and were quite smart with how they bowled.
"We lost all the momentum, kept losing wickets and weren't able to get that partnership together, unfortunately. We have got to draw a line under the T20s, the Test match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground is going to be really cool.
"We have to see that as a one-off Test match that we are going to try and win."
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Georgia Voll and Mooney took the Aussies to 56 before the former was caught by Danni Wyatt-Hodge.
Phoebe Litchfield was the next to go, bowled by Sophie Ecclestone to leave her side on 83-2.
Ellyse Perry and Grace Harris hit 12 and 11 runs respectively to help the hosts up to 139-4 before Annabel Sutherland was caught to leave Australia on 162-5 after 20 overs.
England suffered a disastrous start to their innings as Sophia Dunkley, Alice Capsey and Nat Sciver-Brunt fell in quick succession.
That left the visitors on 23-3, and things went from bad to worse as Wyatt-Hodge went to take them to on 39-4.
Amy Jones was then bowled out lbw for a duck before Freya Kemp was caught by Harris.
Charlie Dean and Ecclestone were the next to go, leaving England on 77-8 before Australia dispatched Linsey Smith and Knight to wrap up the win.
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