Capsey powers England to T20 sequence win and retains Ashes alive
England 121 for five (Capsey 46, Wyatt 26, Sciver-Brunt 25) beat Australia 155 for 7 (Perry 34, Sciver-Brunt 2-31) by 5 wickets DLS technique
Alice Capsey discovered some well timed kind to assist England to an exciting victory which sealed the T20I leg for the hosts and stored their Ashes hopes alive.
Chasing a revised goal of 119 from 14 overs, Danni Wyatt’s 26 from 15 balls began the rain-reduced run chase off brightly but it surely was Capsey’s 46 from 23, together with a stand of 68 off 44 balls for the third wicket with Nat Sciver-Brunt that gave England sufficient of a buffer forward of some late drama within the type of wickets to Georgia Wareham and Jess Jonassen within the final two overs.
England, taking part in at Lord’s for less than the second time since their 2017 World Cup victory, thrilled a crowd of 21,610, a document for a girls’s bilateral fixture in England, with their five-wicket victory, the primary time Australia have misplaced a sequence because the 2017-18 Ashes, when additionally they misplaced the T20 leg. Australia nonetheless lead this multi-format sequence by six factors to 4, with England needing to win all three ODIs if they’re to win again the Ashes.
Beth Mooney and Ashleigh Gardner each contributed 32 runs and Ellyse Perry was pivotal in including 34 off 25 balls to assist rescue the Australians from 66 for 3 and put up a decent goal of 156. That was revised when the rain which had briefly halted play throughout Australia’s innings returned in the course of the interval and delayed the restart significantly.
Capsey comes good
Wyatt picked up from her match-defining half-century on Wednesday to set England’s run chase off to a vibrant begin with six fours on her technique to 26. Wyatt, so sturdy in opposition to spin, crunched the offspin of Gardner for back-to-back fours by way of the covers and crashed Megan Schutt for 3 extra, together with a deft steer by way of deep third in order that by the point she edged behind trying to chop on the finish of the shortened four-over powerplay England have been 39 for 1. Dunkley skied the very subsequent ball from Darcie Brown down Jonassen’s throat at backward level however then Capsey stepped in.
Capsey, who had scores of three and 5 within the first two matches, discovered some nice contact on the excellent second. She launched Jonassen for six over deep midwicket and after seven overs, the midway level of their innings, England have been 65 for two. A intelligent scoop by Capsey to the rope by way of third introduced up the fifty-partnership with Sciver-Brunt and England wanted 26 off 4 overs.
Wareham conceded simply 4 runs off the eleventh however then Capsey unleashed a large six into the stands over deep midwicket off Schutt adopted by 4 down the bottom to launch the strain on England. She holed out to Gardner 4 runs shy of her half-century however her stand of 68 off 44 balls with Sciver-Brunt was decisive. There was to be extra drama although, Sciver-Brunt bowled by Wareham with England nonetheless needing two runs off the final seven balls and Jonassen trapping Heather Knight lbw with the primary ball of the ultimate over. Then Dani Gibson, who made her worldwide debut within the first match of this T20 sequence, calmly reverse-swept Jonassen for 4 to seal victory with 4 balls to spare.
Dream begin for England
Offspinner Charlie Dean opened the bowling and conceded 10 off the primary over, together with back-to-back fours by way of the covers and nice leg by Alyssa Healy. But a change to the Nursery End within the fourth over yielded a wicket first ball when Dean pinned Healy again in her crease and struck the entrance pad immediately in keeping with center stump. Mooney was gradual to get going with simply 4 runs off 11 balls after 4 overs. She broke the shackles considerably with a sweep off Dean which beat a sprawling Lauren Bell at sq. leg after which Dean parried a pointy caught-and-bowled likelihood, which umpire Sue Redfern managed to evade with a sway of the pinnacle.
At the tip of the powerplay, Australia have been 36 for 1 they usually have been 37 for two a short while later when Tahlia McGrath lofted Gibson’s back-of-a-length ball straight to Capsey at mid off. By the time she fell trying to lap Sciver-Brunt solely to see her stumps splayed, Mooney had reached 32 from 27 balls, together with three fours off Sarah Glenn’s first over, twice by way of midwicket after which down the bottom and Australia have been 66 for 3 on the midway level of their innings.
Prime Perry
England negated the specter of Gardner on 32 from 25 deliveries with an excellent take over head peak by Amy Jones off Sciver-Brunt with Perry nonetheless settling in. Perry had virtually seen her facet residence with a barnstorming 51 not out from 27 balls in Australia’s three-run defeat at The Oval and, after a quick rain interruption with Australia 106 for 4 after 15 overs right here, she went on the assault once more. Perry pulled the primary ball after the rain break, from Gibson, over backward sq. leg for six and helped herself to 17 runs off Sciver-Brunt within the 18th over, together with three fours in 4 balls, all behind the wicket.
Perry was adjudged lbw to Bell within the nineteenth over and, given the stage of the sport, she referred to as for a assessment. But with the DRS down, she needed to abide by the on-field choice, which replays later confirmed was the correct one. Grace Harris took up the duty with an efficient 25 from 15 after Bell dropped a sitter at backward level off the primary ball of the ultimate over.
Harris was put down by Gibson at lengthy on subsequent ball then capitalised by discovering the boundary large of lengthy on. Sophie Ecclestone took issues into her personal fingers when she bowled Annabel Sutherland with the penultimate ball of the innings, with Harris run out on the final.
Valkerie Baynes is a basic editor, girls’s cricket, at ESPNcricinfo