Women’s Ashes Test match: England v Australia, day two – live | Women’s Ashes

93rd over: Australia 351-7 (Sutherland 48, King 21) Will we see Sutherland notch up her 50 this over? Not if Cross has any say within the matter. She bowls a really straight one first up and Sutherland defends it again to her. Sutherland finally takes a single and provides King again the strike. Cross isn’t proud of the ball and takes it over to the umpire for a chat. The umpire thinks it’s high-quality, however Cross doesn’t look satisfied.

92nd over: Australia 350-7 (Sutherland 47, King 21) Filer continues her spell and on the second ball, King pulls out her pull shot previous deep midwicket for 4. Filer tidies up her size subsequent ball and King doesn’t play a shot, content material to let that one undergo to the keeper and leaves the subsequent ball as nicely. On the fifth ball of the over, she will get bat on ball, however mistimes it and may’t rating runs from it, so she goes again to leaving the ultimate ball of the over.

91st over: Australia 346-7 (Sutherland 47, King 17) Cross continues and on the third ball of the over, Sutherland performs an exquisite straight drive previous lengthy on for 4 and he or she instantly seems to be extra relaxed after being stifled for a number of overs. She’s content material to defend for the remainder of the over, as she will get near her half century.

ninetieth over: Australia 342-7 (Sutherland 43, King 17) Our first bowling change of the day and it’s Lauren Filer in to interchange Lauren Bell – a pleasant Lauren change from Heather Knight. Clive Woodbridge on Twitter thinks it ought to have been Filer from the beginning.

She begins with a sequence of dots and almost tempts King into throwing her wicket away on the fourth. King is beginning to look pissed off in any case these dots and a full toss on the final ball of the over offers her the discharge she must smack it away for a fast two.

89th over: Australia 340-7 (Sutherland 43, King 15) Cross resumes and Sutherland picks up the place she left off additionally. She doesn’t look overly completely happy concerning the dot balls – it’s a maiden from Cross.

88th over: Australia 340-7 (Sutherland 43, King 15) Bell returns for one more over and Sutherlands will get herself a bit extra strike. They’re taking part in with nice endurance to this point, the Australians. There’s no sense of dashing or urgency, simply discovering the gaps after they come. One comes on the third ball of the over and Sutherland works it to sq. leg for a simple single. King wastes no time taking part in an exquisite reduce shot previous deep cowl for 4. She resettles herself for the remainder of the over and goes into defensive mode.

87th over: Australia 335-7 (Sutherland 42, King 11) Sutherland will get her first have a look at the bowling for immediately and Cross comes into the assault. Off the second ball of the over, Sutherland flicks the ball to deep sq. leg for two. She’s wanting comfy and never feeling pressured to play pictures that aren’t there. The fifth ball of the over she steers one to quick third for a single and King closes out the over.

86th over: Australia 332-7 (Sutherland 39, King 11) Here we go, we’re underway on day two! Bell bowls the primary over of the day and King is on strike to start out us off. Bell will get a little bit of form early, however King safely defends it to quick midwicket. The second ball is wider, however King doesn’t fall into the lure and leaves it alone. On the third ball she takes a danger and sticks her bat out at one other vast ball and guides it previous third for a 4. She then sits again a bit and defends the final three balls of the over, content material together with her work.

What do we expect expensive OBO readers? Will England tear by means of these final three wickets and get on the market to bat early on day two?

We’re very near play getting underway – so shut that Gem is even going to cease taking part in this crucial episode of Keeping Up Appearances to present us 5 minutes of construct up earlier than the primary ball is bowled.

Ellyse Perry is appropriate right here, in fact. You don’t actually get something for a century, only one extra run on your workforce, not that vast within the scheme of issues. And but, we simply love spherical numbers, don’t we? Crazy that we’ve imbued the quantity 100 with such significance when you concentrate on it.

A terrific e-mail from reader Penelope, who is certainly in settlement that we’d like extra ladies’s Test cricket and extra 5 day ladies’s Tests.

Until the ladies get an honest variety of 5 day Tests, we shall be unable to actually see how the groups line up.

For occasion, your fantastic younger bowler Filer needs to be rested as she shouldn’t be used to longer periods over a number of days.

At least three 5 day Tests needs to be scheduled for the ladies, or how else can they play to their full potential?

Still, it’s nice to observe the present contest.

Cheers

Penelope

And this can be a good little bit of perspective on Perry’s batting performances in Tests to this point in her profession.

If you have been watching yesterday and all of a sudden realised that you just haven’t seen all that a lot ladies’s Test cricket earlier than, let this tweet from Dan Liebke put it into perspective for you.

If you’d prefer to examine a bit little bit of all the pieces, then Raf Nicholson has written a usually incredible match report that I believe you’ll love as nicely!

If Perry isn’t for you – maybe you’d want to examine debutant Lauren Filer? Well we’ve acquired one thing for you too!

Warm up into day two by studying the gorgeous phrases of Geoff Lemon and marvel at his comparability of Ellyse Perry to Arnold Schwarzenegger in a method that someway works?

Preamble

Megan Maurice