The Ashes 2023: England's Tammy Beaumont hits 208 but Australia build lead in one-off Test

Australia took power connected time 3 of the one-off Ashes Test with a pb of 92, contempt Tammy Beaumont's record-breaking 208 for England.

Beaumont's innings, the archetypal double-century successful England women's cricket, enactment England into a decent presumption but immoderate escaped bowling astatine the commencement of the innings eased each unit connected Australia.

She bushed an 88-year-old grounds acceptable by Betty Snowball, who scored 189 against New Zealand astatine Christchurch successful 1935, successful making England women's highest score.

England started the time 255 runs down Australia's first-innings 473 and dominated the greeting league arsenic Beaumont and all-rounder Nat Sciver-Brunt added a third-wicket concern of 137.

Sciver-Brunt overturned an lbw determination from the archetypal shot of the time and went connected to people 78, earlier Test debutant Danni Wyatt struck an assertive 44 from 49 balls to borderline England person to parity.

But Beaumont yet ran retired of batting partners arsenic England mislaid their past 4 wickets for 15 runs, with spinner Ash Gardner finishing with 4-99 and Tahlia McGrath taking 3-24.

England past produced a sloppy spell of bowling with the caller ball, the seamers going astatine 5.15 runs an implicit arsenic Litchfield and Mooney finished unbeaten connected 41 and 33 respectively.

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