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| Australia 328-7 (85 overs): Perry 99, McGrath 61; Ecclestone 3-71 |
| England: Yet to bat |
| Scorecard |
England spinner Sophie Ecclestone's 3 wickets near the one-off Test against Australia evenly poised aft the archetypal time astatine Trent Bridge.
After winning the toss, Australia were successful power astatine 226-3 earlier losing 3 wickets for 12 runs successful the abstraction of 24 balls, including all-rounder Ellyse Perry for 99, arsenic England pulled it backmost connected the opening time of the multi-format Women's Ashes series.
Ecclestone took 2 wickets successful 3 balls, bowling skipper Alyssa Healy for a duck, earlier debutant Lauren Filer dismissed Perry with a crisp 76mph delivery.
A seventh-wicket concern of 77 betwixt Ash Gardner (40) and Annabel Sutherland (39 not out) past steadied Australia's advancement arsenic they finished connected 328-7, aft Gardner fell to Lauren Bell precocious successful the day.
England seamer Kate Cross took the archetypal wicket of the bid arsenic Phoebe Litchfield fell for 23 connected Test debut, earlier Filer had opener Beth Mooney caught astatine gaffe for 33 for her archetypal planetary wicket.
Perry, who was dropped connected 10, and Tahlia McGrath added 119 for the 3rd wicket arsenic England's seamers toiled connected a level transportation successful the day session.
Ecclestone (3-71) was the lone bowler to connection skipper Heather Knight control, bowling a mammoth 31 overs astatine an system complaint of 2.29 runs per over, portion the 4 seamers combined went astatine 4.34.
The five-day Test is worthy 4 points successful the multi-format series, and is followed by 3 Twenty20 internationals and 3 one-day internationals.
More to follow.
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