Live Cricket Score | Australia Women vs England Women Live Score & Commentary | AUS-W vs ENG-W Scorecard, Womens Ashes

1st T20 • Adelaide Oval • Adelaide

England Women

169/4 (20)

Australia Women

170/1 (17)

AUS-W won by 9 wickets

Info

Fantasy

Live

Scorecard

Playing XI

Player of the Match Tahlia McGrath

91(49)

3/26

ENG-W s

AUS-W s

Info

England Women s

169/4 (20)

Batters

Tammy Beaumont

125.00

c & b A King

Danielle Wyatt

129.63

b T McGrath

Natalie Sciver

139.13

b T McGrath

Heather Knight

(C)

111.11

Not out

Amy Jones

66.67

c GM Harris b T McGrath

Sophia Dunkley

200.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 4, LB: 4, NB: 1, W: 4)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 8.45)

169/4

Did not Bat

Maia Bouchier, Katherine Brunt, Sophie Ecclestone, Sarah Glenn, Freya Davies

Bowlers

EXT

7.00

7.25

6.50

11.50

13.50

7.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Tammy Beaumont

c & b A King

1-82

10.1

Natalie Sciver

b T McGrath

2-141

16.3

Danielle Wyatt

b T McGrath

3-142

16.5

Amy Jones

c GM Harris b T McGrath

4-154

18.4

Australia Women s

170/1 (17)

Batters

Meg Lanning

(C)

145.45

Not out

Alyssa Healy

77.78

c NRS Sciver b S Ecclestone

Tahlia McGrath *

185.71

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 1, NB: 0, W: 7)

TOTAL

(17 Ov, RR: 10)

170/1

Did not Bat

Rachael Haynes, Ashleigh Gardner, Grace Harris, Nicola Carey, Jess Jonassen, Alana King, Tayla Vlaeminck, Megan Schutt

Bowlers

EXT

8.00

7.25

10.33

9.67

13.00

17.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Alyssa Healy

c NRS Sciver b S Ecclestone

1-26

3.5

Match Info

Date & Time

20 Jan, 01:40 PM IST

Venue

Adelaide Oval

Match

1st T20,

Womens Ashes

Umpires

Bruce Oxenford (Australia) , Claire Polosak (Australia) , Michael Graham-Smith (Australia, TV)

Referee

Steve Bernard (Australia)

Toss

Australia Women elected to bowl

Player of the Match Tahlia McGrath

91(49)

3/26

Commentary

That's it for this game everyone!! We hope that you enjoyed this live coverage. Stay tuned on Sportskeeda for all the live cricketing updates from around the world. This is Navjeevan Rajput and alongside me, Pratyush Rohra signing off, till next time take care and stay safe!!

Heather Knight (England Captain): Tammy and Wyatt at the top were outstanding with the bat. The pitch was good and it got better under the lights actually. With the ball, we just missed our lengths, and McGrath batting like that just made it hard for us to set the field right for her.

Meg Lanning (Australia Captain): The pitch was pretty hard to defend on so it was probably a par score. McGrath was great with the ball getting those wickets in the death overs as we were actually looking at 20-30 more runs. Watching McGrath bat from the other end was quite intimidating as well. It was a good wicket to bat on and it was nice to get some runs today.

Tahlia McGrath (Player of the match): It was a lot of fun. This is my home state. I was looking forward to this fixture and getting us off to a winning start. A bit of disjointed preparation. Bubble life is tough. We were looking forward to playing some cricket and getting out of the hotel. It was a really nice wicket out there. Dani Wyatt beautifully. We were just trying to restrict her. While batting, it was skidding on nicely. So, we were just looking to play straight and make the most of that.

McGrath went on reach her maiden T20I half-century and showed no signs of stopping. Meg supporting her from the other end played her part too and made this chase quite a simple one for Australia in the end. The duo stitched an unbroken 144 runs partnership to get Australia across the line with 3 overs to spare.

McGrath coming in to bat next came to the rescue once again for Australia as she kept the score moving alongside Meg and found the boundaries consistently to keep the Australian side on top. England was just not able to slow down that scoring rate.

Coming in to chase, Australia were looking good with their scoring as Alyssa and Meg opened the batting for them found the runs quickly. However, the partnership was broken quickly as Ecclestone got the wicket of Alyssa, and that put pressure on Australia.

Meg puts on the finishing touches and that makes it a record run-chase for Australia. McGrath was the stand-out performer and most certainly should be the player of the match for getting 3 wickets with the ball initially and now playing a 91 run knock and remaining not out.

overs

170 /1 score

runs

Meg Lanning *

64 (44)

Tahlia McGrath

91 (49)

Heather Knight

0 /17

16.6 Heather Knight to Meg Lanning, FOUR! LANNING FINISHES IT OFF IN STYLE! Tossed up low full toss, Lanning gets down on one knee and sweeps it away into the deep square leg ropes. Australia have made this run chase look like a walk in a park. It's a record chase in T20Is. Australia Women win by 9 wickets and take the first two points in the series.

16.5 Heather Knight to Meg Lanning, FOUR! Flighted delivery outside off-stump, asking for trouble there. Lanning loves the square cut and crunches it past point to find the boundary. That's 3000 T20I runs for Meg Lanning.

16.4 Heather Knight to Tahlia McGrath, tossed up delivery around the off-stump, McGrath eases it down to long-off for a single

16.3 Heather Knight to Tahlia McGrath, FOUR MORE! Another one down the leg side and that's easy pickings from McGrath. Swept away past short fine leg and she's moved into the nineties

16.2 Heather Knight to Tahlia McGrath, FOUR! Flighted full and down the leg side, McGrath nails the sweep to beat the fielder at deep backward square leg and find the ropes

16.1 Heather Knight to Tahlia McGrath, tossed up full delivery outside off, McGrath drives it to point but there's no run there

Heather Knight right-arm orthodox brings herself on!

Too many wide deliveries bowled in the last few overs. That will most certainly take away the chance for McGrath to score a century here. Australia needs just 17 runs in 24 balls. No real demons on this surface and England would feel they were 10-15 runs short with the bat now.

overs

153 /1 score

runs

Meg Lanning *

56 (42)

Tahlia McGrath

82 (45)

Sophie Ecclestone

1 /29

15.6 Sophie Ecclestone to Meg Lanning, good length delivery around off-stump, Lanning prods forward to defend this into the covers, no run

15.5 Sophie Ecclestone to Meg Lanning, good length slider into the pads, Lanning tucks it away towards fine leg to scamper back for a brace. Excellent running!