Summary

  • AUSTRALIA WIN BY 63 RUNS

  • Series now level at 2-2 on points

  • Edwards (58) hits 46th ODI half-century

  • Lanning (104) scores sixth ODI century

Live Reporting

Mark Mitchener

  1. Scorecard update

    Scorecard

  2. Ebony Rainford-Brent
    Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

    They are about 10-15 runs over par. What I like about Australia is that they have learned from their mistakes. They wanted to make sure they built early doors. They built a base which allowed Lanning and Perry to get into the game and build a positive total.

  3. Aus 259-6

    Sciver, having picked up a couple of late wickets, re-ties her hair between deliveries as Erin Osborne comes out for the last two balls of the innings. A leg bye gets Healy back on strike for the last ball, she steps across to bunt a single to short fine leg and England must score 260 to win.

  4. Ebony Rainford-Brent
    Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

    Jonassen went miles to wide to leg side there. Sciver is bowling a lot of slower balls and good ones, with a lot of variation.

  5. wicket

    WICKET

    Jonassen st Taylor b Sciver 6 (Aus 257-6)

    Jonassen is miles down the track, swings and misses, the ball is called wide but this time Taylor makes no mistake.

  6. Missed stumping

    Aus 255-5

    Sciver to bowl the last over - preferred to Brunt or Cross, who have one over left - and the left-handed Jonassen whips the first ball over the bowler's head for four. A single brings Healy back on strike, now is that a stumping chance missed? Tough, but probably yes, as Taylor can't take the ball cleanly.

  7. Aus 250-5

    Jess Jonassen in, and off the mark with a single. Only three runs from the over means Knight finishes with 2-44 from nine overs.

  8. Ebony Rainford-Brent
    Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

    England will be very pleased with this last over from Heather Knight. Every run counts.

  9. wicket

    WICKET

    Blackwell b Knight 8 (Aus 249-5)

    Thankfully for England, the missed stumping does not cost any runs as off-spinner Knight picks up her second wicket, bowling Blackwell as the former skipper tries to hit through the leg side.

    Alex Blackwell bowledGetty Images

  10. Missed stumping

    Aus 249-4

    Nearly a second stumping as Blackwell comes down the track to Knight - but this time a fumble from Taylor keeps Blackwell in.

  11. Aus 243-4

    Wicketkeeper Alyssa Healy is in at number six - watched from the stands by her fiance Mitchell Starc - and she's been promoted above Jess Jonassen, who opened in the last game. She guides her second ball for four.

  12. wicket

    WICKET

    Lanning st Taylor b Sciver 104 (Aus 241-4)

    Sciver deceives Lanning as she comes down the track to a slower ball, and quick as a flash, Sarah Taylor removes a bail and the skipper is stranded. A few of the England players make sure they congratulate Lanning on an excellent century before she leaves the field.

  13. Aus 238-3 (Knight 8-0-41-1)

    New batter Alex Blackwell gets the reverse sweep out first ball, Rebecca Grundy gives chase and cuts off the four as they run three. Lanning then plays a similar reverse sweep, misses and Knight raises both hands to appeal for lbw - but it's not out.

  14. wicket

    WICKET

    Perry b Knight 48 (Aus 235-3)

    Ellyse Perry falls two short of what would have been a women's ODI record of seven successive fifties as she's beaten in the flight and bowled by Heather Knight - who, for someone who's only been bowling regularly in internationals for a year or so, has been doing a very steady job for her side today.

  15. Aus 234-2 (Lanning 103*, Perry 48*)

    The ones and twos continue to flow. Looking like a monumental run chase for England here.

  16. Ebony Rainford-Brent
    Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

    For me, she's up there with the best. She was unfortunate with that lbw shout in the first match but she'll be one of the finest cricketers if she carries on in this vein.

  17. 100 runs

    100 for Meg Lanning

    Australia captain Meg Lanning completes a marvellous century from 92 balls as she guides sixth bowler Natalie Sciver's medium pace for two through third man - it's her sixth ton in 38 ODIs. And she's still only 23...

    Meg LanningGetty Images

  18. Aus 225-2

    More accumulation from the third-wicket pair against Knight - Lanning, on 96, pushes a quick single to Georgia Elwiss at mid-off and puts in the full-length dive but the throw is wide. Five singles from Knight's seventh over.

  19. Aus 220-2 (Lanning 95*, Perry 43*)

    Perry has played the supporting role in this partnership - she reaches 42 by flicking Cross down the leg side for four, and for such a powerful striker of the ball, it's surprising that's only her second boundary today. Lanning, meanwhile, gets off the unlucky-for-Aussies 87 by slogging Cross for consecutive fours through square leg.

    Meg LanningPA