On Saturday, England defeated Australia by five wickets to win the best-of-three Twenty20 series 2-1 and preserve the women’s Ashes.
Although England handed Australia their first T20 series loss since 2017, Australia still leads the multi-format series by a score of six to four.
“We talked about trying to win the series, and the way we performed tonight was brilliant,” said England captain Heather Knight.
Australia scored 155-7 from their 20 overs in a rain-delayed encounter at Lord’s in front of a record crowd of 21,610 spectators for a women’s bilateral international in England.
At the halfway stage of the visitors’ innings, they were down 66-3. Ellyse Perry led the way with 34 points off 25 balls as they rallied.
England were given a revised goal of 119 off 14 overs because of a weather delay.
Thanks to Alice Capsey’s 46 off 23 balls, the hosts seemed to be cruising to victory.
And when Danielle Gibson struck her opening ball for four, Knight’s ladies crossed the finish line with four balls to spare despite losing three late wickets.
There are still three one-day internationals left in the series, and Australia just needs one victory to keep the Ashes.
After a difficult series start, Knight said, “We’ve kept our faith. “Another record-breaking environment helped us tonight, out here.
There is still a long way to go and little room for mistake, but we’ll focus on winning each game individually.
Alyssa Healy, the captain of Australia, is still optimistic that her team can recover from losing a T20 series for the first time since New Zealand defeated them 2-1 over six years ago.
They recently performed a pretty strong inning. We didn’t play well, and they batted pretty well,” added Healy.
When you are not quite on it in T20, you risk being attacked.
Fortunately, there are still three one-day matches left in the Ashes series.
