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Women's Ashes, archetypal T20: Sydney Cricket Ground
Australia 198-7 (20 overs): Mooney 75 (51); Ecclestone 2-26
England 141 (16 overs): Dunkley 59 (30); Wareham 3-25
Australia won by 57 runs, pb bid 8-0
Australia retained the Women's Ashes astatine the earliest accidental with a 57-run thrashing implicit England successful the archetypal T20 astatine the Sydney Cricket Ground.
England slumped to 141 each retired successful 16 overs aft being acceptable an imposing 199 to win, contempt Sophia Dunkley's superb 59 from 30 balls successful her archetypal quality of the tour.
Dunkley enactment England successful a large presumption by reaching 62-3 from the six-over powerplay and 96-3 astatine the halfway mark.
But the past 7 wickets fell for 45 runs arsenic Australia turned the screw, with leg-spinners Alana King and Georgia Wareham taking 2-14 and 3-25 respectively.
The triumph gives Australia an 8-0 points pb successful the multi-format series, meaning England tin lone gully if they triumph each of their remaining matches.
Dunkley's fearless attack from fig 3 was each the much awesome considering England had suffered different top-order failure, with openers Maia Bouchier and Danni Wyatt-Hodge falling for ducks successful the archetypal 2 overs.
Nat Sciver-Brunt's 20 was the adjacent apical people arsenic England buckled nether the run-rate pressure, but they besides paid the terms for conceding excessively galore runs via immoderate escaped bowling and respective mistakes successful the tract contempt winning the toss.
Beth Mooney made 75 from 51 balls astatine the apical of the bid for Australia, but she was dropped by Amy Jones connected 16 and determination was different missed accidental connected 23 erstwhile a miscommunication betwixt Nat Sciver-Brunt and Charlie Dean saw them permission a straightforward drawback to 1 different and it yet plugged successful the outfield.
Sophie Ecclestone's exceptional figures of 2-26 were an outlier successful an unconvincing bowling effort, arsenic each different bowler finished with an system complaint of much than 8 an over.
The 2nd of 3 T20s, each worthy 2 points each, takes spot successful Canberra connected Thursday.
More to follow.
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