Summary

  • Australia win Ashes outright following victory on DLS method - report

  • England needed 18 runs off five balls when rain forced players from field

  • Australia recover from 114-5 to post 185-5

  • Hosts smash 48 off last three overs

  • McGrath (48*) and Harris (35*) do the damage

  • Second of three T20s, Canberra

Media caption,

Rain stops play with five balls remaining

  1. Aus 175-5published at 19.2 overs

    Lauren Bell has recovered and comes back to take the final over.

    Her first ball is a wide, perhaps unluckily. Harris then takes a two to point, then there should be another off side wide but Bell somehow gets away with it.

  2. Aus 172-5published at 19 overs

    And McGrath closes the over with a fourth four of the over, lashing through backward point.

  3. dropped catch

    Dropped catchpublished at 18.4 overs

    Aus 168-5

    And now McGrath is put down!

    An uppish drive to long-off, where Charlie Dean runs in and spills the ball trying to take the grab.

  4. Aus 166-5published at 18.3 overs

    And now Tahlia McGrath has a trio of consecutive boundaries.

    She whacks Ecclestone down the ground, the diving Kemp and Bouchier unable to cut the ball off despite the former making contact.

    One through square leg follows, before a ball breaks through Danni Wyatt-Hodge and to the ropes.

  5. 6 runs

    Aus 154-5published at 18 overs

    Media caption,

    Two huge sixes from Harris

    Grace Harris doing Grace Harris things.

    Back-to-back sixes for the Australian number seven, lifting Sarah Glenn down the ground and then clubbing the England leggie over the mid-wicket ropes.

    She sensibly defends the final delivery for a dot ball, but Australia took 17 off that over.

  6. Aus 137-5published at 17 overs

    A sort-of reverse shot brings McGrath a single as she retains the strike.

    Three overs to go, how far can Australia go here?

  7. Not outpublished at 16.4 overs

    Aus 136-5

    McGrath survives, just about sliding her foot back into the crease having attempted a flat-batted shot to Ecclestone's delivery.

    Two balls earlier, McGrath had picked up four through square leg.

  8. Umpire reviewpublished at 16.4 overs

    And now the umpires are consulting on a stumping.

    Might Ecclestone have removed Tahlia McGrath?

  9. Aus 132-5published at 16 overs

    Harris takes two through square to close the over.

    That's Dean done - she finishes with 2-28, with both wickets coming in the same over.

    Media caption,

    Two in an over - Dean dismisses Litchfield and Perry

  10. Not outpublished at 15.3 overs

    Close, very close.

    Harris survives as ball tracking has umpire's call on the leg stump.

    England retain their review.

  11. Umpire reviewpublished at 15.3 overs

    But does Dean have her revenge from the following delivery?

    She's struck Harris on the pads as she attempts a sweep.

    Nothing from the umpire but England are sending it upstairs...

  12. 6 runs

    Aus 128-5published at 15.2 overs

    Grace Harris goes after Charlie Dean!

    Absolutely walloped over mid-wicket for six, a classic bit of Harris hitting.

  13. Postpublished at 09:26 Greenwich Mean Time

    Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Annabel Sutherland picked out a fielder again, it was a little bit fuller from Freya Kemp. A crucial partnership to break and an easy catch for Sophia Dunkley.

    England have taken wickets at crucial moments throughout this series - this is another one of them.

  14. Aus 122-5published at 15 overs

    Grace Harris comes in for Australia and she takes a single from her second ball, knocking down the ground.

    Kemp then sends a ball way down the leg side - no elaborate plan on this occasion, Jones can't collect and it runs away for five wides.

  15. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 14.1 overs

    Sutherland c Dunkley b Kemp 18 (Aus 114-5)

    Partnership broken now, Alex!

    Kemp gets a wicket with her first ball after returning to the attack as Annabel Sutherland lofts her delivery straight into the hands of Sophia Dunkley at deep square leg.

    High in the air, and Dunkley drops to a knee as she takes the catch.

  16. Postpublished at 09:21 Greenwich Mean Time

    Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    This partnership has allowed itself just to settle and get used to this surface.

    Australia will have learned lessons that 140/150 isn't enough, you need much more runs and now they are beginning to accelerate.

  17. Aus 114-4published at 14 overs

    Back to back fours for McGrath!

    She clouts Glenn through mid-wicket then beats two diving fielders to send the ball to the ropes at long-on.

  18. Aus 104-4published at 13 overs

    Sciver-Brunt tightens it up, no further boundaries from the over.

    This partnership is beginning to build...

  19. Postpublished at 09:15 Greenwich Mean Time

    Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    A great shot from Annabel Sutherland. It wasn't a short ball, she has picked up a length ball off her hip and heaved it into the left-side. Maia Bouchier couldn't get there at all.

    The gears are being moved through now by Australia.

  20. 6 runs

    Aus 100-4published at 12.2 overs

    Four and a six for Sutherland!

    She whips the returning Nat Sciver-Brunt over her head, then punches a length ball through mid-wicket, clearing the ropes by the smallest of margins.

    Hundred up for the home side.