Australia retained the Ladies’s Ashes with an exciting three-run win over England within the second One-Day Worldwide at Southampton regardless of an unbeaten hundred from residence batter Nat Sciver-Brunt.
England, set 283 to win, completed agonisingly brief on 279 for seven when, with 5 wanted for victory off the final ball, Sciver-Brunt may solely handle a single, in opposition to Jess Jonassen, to be 111 not out.
Victory gave Australia an unassailable 8-6 factors lead within the multi-format sequence, with essentially the most England can now hope for is to finish all sq. at 8-8 by profitable the third and remaining ODI in Taunton on Tuesday.
However even when the sequence is shared, holder Australia will nonetheless retain the Ashes.
Key to its success at Hampshire’s headquarters on Sunday was the final over of its innings when Georgia Wareham smashed 26 runs off England fast Lauren Bell.
Double white-ball world champion Australia, victorious within the lone Check of the Ashes, had been 6-0 forward earlier than England rallied with three wins in a row – taking two of the three Twenty20s and the primary ODI – to stage the sequence at 6-6.
However Australia’s slim win on Sunday left England nonetheless on the lookout for its first Ashes sequence win since 2014.