Women’s Ashes Test Match: Australia defeats England by 89 runs at Trent Bridge & takes a 4-0 points lead in multi-format series

Women’s Ashes Test Match: Australia defeats England by 89 runs at Trent Bridge & takes a 4-0 points lead in multi-format series

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In Women’s Cricket, Australia defeated England by 89 runs to win the one-off Ashes Test match at Trent Bridge and take a 4-0 points lead in the multi-format series. For Australia, Spinner Ash Gardner produced the second-best bowling match figures by a woman in history, clinching eight wickets as England were bowled out for 178 before lunch, in pursuit of 268 for victory, on day five. Gardner’s effort gave her an astonishing 12 wickets in the match after her four in England’s first innings.

Earlier in the day, England resumed their second innings at the overnight score of 116 for 5. Defeat felt cruel on Tammy Beaumont, who scored England women’s first double century, posting 208 in their first innings, and Sophie Ecclestone, who also took a 10-wicket haul in the match but was ultimately eclipsed by Gardner. The series continues with three T20s and three one-day internationals, all worth two points each, starting at Edgbaston on the 1st of July.