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Live Reporting

by Sam Drury

  1. Henry Moeran
    Test Match Special commentator

    What a loose dismissal. This may well now be the final day of the women's Ashes.

    England are not far from packing their bags, going home and having some serious conversations.

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    WICKET

    Wyatt-Hodge c Brown b Gardner 2 (Eng 109-5)

    Was just about to say Tammy Beaumont and Danni Wyatt-Hodge look a little more relaxed against Ash Gardner's offies after milking a few singles at the start of the over...

    However, the latter gives her wicket away when she chips a sweep round the corner off Gardner and into the hands of Darcie Brown.

    A pretty average dismissal.

  3. How's stat?!

    Srinivas Vijaykumar
    Cricviz analyst

    Alana KingGetty Images

    Alana King now has 20 wickets in this Ashes series. Since the start of the multi-format points system for the Ashes in 2013, only Ash Gardner (23 wickets in 2023 in England) has taken more wickets in a series.

  4. Eng 106-4

    Impossible not to be captivated by Alana King. She plays the game with such joie de vivre - it must be infectious for her team-mates.

    Tammy Beaumont leans forward and a leg-break catches the edge of her bat but squirts past the fielder under the helmet at short cover and safe,

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    England have not been good in this series. But jeepers that's a ripper of a delivery from Alana King - good luck playing that!

    Ross

  6. Michelle Goszko
    Ex-Australia batter on BBC Sounds

    Alana King is having quite some series. She's just a joy to watch.

  7. Eng 104-4

    Bowling is all about partnerships.

    Ash Gardner playing her part, here. Chalking up another maiden to keep England under the cosh.

    Back to Alana King. What does she have up her sleeve now?

  8. Michelle Goszko
    Ex-Australia batter on BBC Sounds

    Wow, on the biggest stage she's turning it on. Alana King, take a bow.

  9. Eng 104-4

    Danni Wyatt-Hodge survives off four dots from Alana King in the next over.

    Still catching my breath after that delivery from Alana King. Wizardry, masterful.

    Spellbinding stuff.

  10. Henry Moeran
    Test Match Special commentator

    Beautiful bowling, wonderful bowling. It is absolutely magnificent.

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    WICKET

    Dunkley b King 4 (Eng 104-4)

    Ball of the series?

    From the Shane Warne End, Alana King is producing some truly top-quality leg-spin here.

    Sophia Dunkley's eyes follow a flighted delivery and she prods forward to defend where she thinks it's going to pitch.

    However, it drifts in and all of sudden she can sense what's about to happen from right under her nose. The ball grips, spins big, and hits the top of Dunkley's off stump.

    An absolute worldie of a delivery.

  12. Eng 100-3

    Truthfully the ball had been spinning a little too much with a few half-hearted lbw appeals from Alana King before that wicket. She was holding back the one which slides on, or goes back the other way.

    Anyway, no let-up. Ash Gardner knows her role here and is through another over - a maiden - in double quick time before tossing the ball back to King.

    She's turning the screw here.

  13. Michelle Goszko
    Ex-Australia batter on BBC Sounds

    Alana King set her up there. A couple of big turning leg-spinners, Nat Sciver-Brunt decided to sweep, all of a sudden she bowls a straighter one.

    All the drama here at the MCG.

  14. Ben Cameron
    BBC Test Match Special

    Alana King wins the battle. The beauty of leg-spin.

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    WICKET

    Sciver-Brunt lbw b King 18 (Eng 100-3)

    No, it cannot.

    Nat Sciver-Brunt attempts to defend but rather than a leg-spinner it's a delivery which straightens from Alana King and strikes the England on the knee roll.

    There was a suggestion it might have been slipping down leg but the DRS shows three reds.

    After a really positive start to the innings NSB is on her way.

    King dismisses Sciver-Brunt

  16. England review

    No bat. Can the ball-tracking technology save Nat Sciver-Brunt?

  17. Michelle Goszko
    Ex-Australia batter on BBC Sounds

    Nat Sciver-Brunt isn't sure here.

  18. England review

    Alana King gets one to skip on and hit Nat Sciver-Brunt on the front pad.

    It's given out lbw. NSB immediately sends it upstairs.

  19. Eng 100-2

    Nat Sciver-Brunt has good judgment here.

    Sweeping when the time is right, but not frightened to shoulder arms to Alana King either.

    She takes England up to a hundred by reaching forward to clinically sweep the Aussie leg-spinner to the fence for four.

  20. How's stat?!

    Srinivas Vijaykumar
    Cricviz analyst

    BeaumontGetty Images

    This is now Tammy Beaumont's highest score in the second innings in her Test career, going past the 37 (81) she scored in the draw against Australia at the North Sydney Oval in 2017.

    Her three previous Test fifties have all come in the team's first innings.