The Ashes: England confident before must-win Ashes T20 at The Oval

On paper, the equation for England going into the 2nd Ashes T20 astatine The Oval is simple.

Alyssa Healy's Australia clasp a six-point vantage aft winning the Test match, worthy 4 points, and the archetypal T20 astatine Edgbaston.

England present request to instrumentality 9 points from a imaginable 10 successful bid to regain the Ashes.

It is simply a pugnacious task against immoderate side, fto unsocial the existent treble satellite champions and Commonwealth Games winners.

"We've seen weirder things hap than that successful cricket," said spinner Sophie Ecclestone of England's chances of overturning a 6-0 deficit.

"We're up for the situation - we cognize precisely what we request to do. We're truly not acold distant from them and that makes america assured going into the remainder of the series."

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Ecclestone has been cardinal to England's quality to propulsion Australia adjacent successful some encounters truthful far, taking 10 wickets successful the Test lucifer astatine Trent Bridge and 2-24 astatine Edgbaston arsenic the visitors scraped a triumph disconnected the penultimate shot of the game.

The left-arm spinner, who is ranked fig 1 successful the satellite successful T20s, added that the grounds crowds seen successful the bid person fixed England an other boost contempt the results.

And she believes that akin scenes astatine 1 of England's astir historical grounds, The Oval, could springiness them the borderline connected Wednesday.

"All the hard enactment we enactment successful connected and disconnected the field, it makes it each worthy it erstwhile you locomotion retired successful beforehand of crowds of astir 20,000 and cognize that you're inspiring the adjacent generation.

"We cognize it's going to beryllium a hard task to triumph 5 retired of five, but with the assemblage down us, we're confident."

The attendance crossed some games truthful acold has already eclipsed that of the full bid of England's past location Ashes successful 2019.

England seamer Lauren Bell echoed Ecclestone's content but added that the bid had been "frustrating" truthful acold due to the fact that of however adjacent they person been to overcoming Australia's greatness.

"As a whole, this bid has decidedly shown that we're closing the gap," said Bell.

"We've got content arsenic a dressing country that we're getting there, but they are evidently the champion squad successful the satellite and we'll person to play astatine our champion to bushed them.

"There are conscionable a fewer moments wherever we tin beryllium better, and if we triumph a fewer much of those truly important moments we've got a accidental of getting implicit the line."

Australia person won a singular 23 retired of their past 24 T20s, the sole decision coming from a ace implicit against India successful December 2022.

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