Summary

  • Career-best 6-32 for Perry

  • Elwiss 46, Greenway 16 off 137 balls

  • England need Test record 263 to win

  • Australia lead 8-2 in multi-format series

  1. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 13:06 British Summer Time 14 August 2015

    Australia celebrateImage source, Getty Images
  2. Postpublished at 13:05

    Test Match Special will be speaking to author David Tossell, in around 10 minutes' time. You can listen to that via the icon on this live text commentary.

  3. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 13:04 British Summer Time 14 August 2015

  4. Postpublished at 13:03

    So, do England retreat into match-saving mode? Or can they still win this? If they try and block their way out of a hole, I worry they'll end up falling into it.

    Heather KnightImage source, Getty Images
  5. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 13:03 British Summer Time 14 August 2015

    81111

    England's golden girl not so shiny today! Game over!!! Disaster- Australia fully deserve to win this - simple

    Marcus in London

  6. Taylor's troublespublished at 13:01 British Summer Time 14 August 2015

    Sarah TaylorImage source, PA

    Sarah Taylor's pair of ducks is the 26th in women's Tests and the ninth by an England player.

  7. Lunchpublished at 13:00

    Eng 16-2

    England get through to lunch without further loss of wickets. Australia's morning couldn't have gone much better.

  8. Eng 15-2published at 12:57

    England are on the rack here, Ellyse Perry shaping the ball back into Charlotte Edwards' pads and she goes up for a strong appeal. Not out. Close though.

  9. 'Taylor is Perry's bunny'published at 12:56 British Summer Time 14 August 2015

    Izzy Westbury
    Middlesex captain on BBC Test Match Special

    "That's the moment. It's disappointing. The ball has pitched outside off stump and Taylor's foot was planted down the pitch with the bat dangling outside off. Taylor truly is Perry's bunny. She's had a pair of ducks and that's not good."

  10. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 12:53

    Taylor b Perry 0 (Eng 12-2)

    A horrible, horrible dismissal... Sarah Taylor's trigger movement sees her go back and across, exposing her off stick which is pegged back by Ellyse Perry. She was playing down Bakerloo to a ball heading down the Central Line. A pair in the match for England's golden girl.

    Perry takes the wicket of TaylorImage source, Getty Images
  11. Eng 11-1 (need 252 more to win)published at 12:51

    Sarah Coye is bowling at 60mph - a good 10mph slower than the likes of Katherine Brunt, but her nagging line and length is proving just as effective. After getting rid of Heather Knight with an inducker, she almost sees off Sarah Taylor with one which shapes the other way. Play and a miss.

  12. 'Shiver down my spine'published at 12:51 British Summer Time 14 August 2015

    Izzy Westbury
    Middlesex captain on BBC Test Match Special

    "That's a big blow for England. That's the first of 10 Australia are looking for. It was pitched far outside off, it came back, I think it was a good call.

    "This is a big, big moment in the match. I've got shivers down my spine. Sarah Taylor is in at a crucial juncture and I think this wicket will decide what will happen today."

  13. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 12:48

    Knight lbw b Coyte 5 (Eng 11-1)

    Oh dear... not what England needed. Sarah Coyte nips one back into Heather Knight, the front pad is planted and the finger goes up.

    Heather KnightImage source, Reuters
  14. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 12:47 British Summer Time 14 August 2015

    tms@bbc.co.uk

    Don't mean to be disrespectful to a fine county player, but Graeme Hick's eventual and much anticipated arrival on the Test scene as an England player. Anticlimax.

    Ralph Brooker in France

    For the record, Graeme Hick's Tests average was 31.32., compared to a first-class average of 52.2.

  15. Eng 11-0 (7 overs)published at 12:46

    Lauren Winfield is in pretty good touch this summer - scoring 99* for Yorkshire Women three weeks ago. The ball is finding the middle of the bat, but also the close fielders. She finally breaks the shackles by whipping four through the leg side. That'll do.

  16. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 12:44 British Summer Time 14 August 2015

    #bbccricket

  17. Eng 7-0 (target 263)published at 12:42

    Sarah Coyte, tattooed sleeve showing, tests Heather Knight with some nagging line and length. A play and a miss gets the wicketkeeper interested. Which ones to play, which ones to leave: a dilemma all opening batters wrestle with at one point or another.

  18. Postpublished at 12:42 British Summer Time 14 August 2015

    We're not sure if Shane Warne is watching the women's Ashes, but whatever he's watching, he has a very comfortable seat.

  19. Eng 7-0 (Knight 5, Winfield 2)published at 12:38

    Ellyse Perry is not threatening, sending down another set of six which aren't scored off but fail to trouble Lauren Winfield.

  20. Postpublished at 12:39 British Summer Time 14 August 2015

    New Zealand international Frances Mackay is enjoying the action at Canterbury.