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by Matthew Henry & Timothy Abraham

  1. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    This was more of a 'we'll go upstairs because we've got two in the bank'.

  2. McGrath is struggling here...

  3. Australia review

    Given lbw! But Tahlia McGrath reviews...

    I must admit I thought this hit outside off stump.

  4. Aus 261-6

    Georgia Wareham, brought into this match for Darcie Brown, is in at number eight. It's a move that has only strengthened Australia's batting.

  5. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    England will have wanted take that wicket a lot earlier to break that partnership. It will slow things down.

  6. wicket

    WICKET

    Gardner c Beaumont b Bell 102 (Aus 257-6)

    And now Ash Gardner is out. She tries to biff away a Lauren Bell slower ball but doesn't get all of it. The catch is well taken by Tammy Beaumont in the deep.

    That could help England but I fear Gardner has already taken the game away from the tourists.

  7. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

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    What an innings form Ash Gardner, she's shown real maturity. She put the pressure back on England when they needed her to.

  8. Aus 258-5

    "She's scored all round the ground and now she's showing us her power game," notes Mitchell Starc on the TV. He's spot on.

    A game-changing, perfectly-played knock.

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  9. How's stat?!

    Srinivas Vijaykumar
    Cricviz analyst

    Ash Gardner is the 22nd player to score an ODI century for Australia in Women's ODIs - one short of the 23 centurions for England in this format.

  10. 100 runs

    100 for Ash Gardner

    There it is!

    Ash Gardner is beaming as all of her team-mates and this crowd rise to celebrate her first international hundred.

    One of the best I've seen in a good while.

  11. Aus 253-5

    Gardner 99, McGrath 52

    Ash Gardner takes a single at the end of the over to keep the strike and, more importantly, move to 99 not out.

    She has been superb. She deserves this.

    She looks calm on the outside as she chats between overs...

  12. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Ash Gardner has batted well here. First the partnership with Beth Mooney to keep Australia in the game, now this one with Talia McGrath.

  13. Aus 252-5

    Four more to Ash Gardner.

    It's not good bowling but the Australia is now on 98...

  14. Aus 248-5

    Ecclestone redeems herself a little with a diving stop but no-one is stopping this one as Ash Gardner helps herself after Nat Sciver-Brunt bowls down the leg side.

  15. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    That is poor fielding again from Sophie Ecclestone.

  16. 50 runs

    50 for Tahlia McGrath

    Misfield, four, fifty for another Aussie.

    What was I saying about the bingo card?

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  17. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    England are under a bit of pressure here to close the innings. They need to break this partnership.

  18. Aus 239-5

    Gardner 90, McGrath 46

    Sophie Ecclestone looks to be OK after that blow to the finger.

    With a good position squandered, a middle-order batter nearing a maiden century, bowling being brutally punished and catches going down, we're an England injury away from shouting "LINE" on an England Ashes down under bingo card.

    Another four means Tahlia McGrath now has a damaging 47 not out from 37 balls.

  19. Aus 231-5

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    The highest chase in a women's ODI on this ground is 269. For what it is worth, two scores over 300 have been chased in men's ODIs too, including 321 in just 37 overs by a Virat Kohli-inspired India against Sri Lanka.

    It is a chaser's ground.

  20. Aus 223-5

    Sophie Ecclestone took a blow to her thumb while bowling in the over prior to that chance. I wonder if it played a part.

    Ash Gardner ends the over by cutting Lauren Bell for another four. This is starting to feel very 'England Down Under'...