England (2pts) won by seven wickets
Eng 125-3 (Taylor 50, Edwards 39, Osborne 2-22)
Aus 122-8; Perry 30, Sciver 2-18
Australia lead series 8-4 on points
Ebony Rainford-Brent
Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special
Quote MessageAustralia will still give themselves a little bit of hope. You'd say it was very much in England's favour but Australia will hope to tie a few new batsmen up.
Edwards st Healy b Osborne 39 (Eng 82-2)
Image source, PAEdwards slides her bat along the ground - but did she get it back in time? No - the verdict is out. The England skipper walks off to warm applause, but will be disappointed not to have seen her side home.
Ebony Rainford-Brent
Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special
Quote MessageCharlotte Edwards isn't renowned for moving the quickest, she got her feet stuck.
With Harris looking unlikely to make the breakthrough, the Southern Stars turn back to fellow off-spinner Osborne - and when Edwards over-reaches herself coming a yard down the track, Australia appeal for a stumping...
Alison Mitchell
BBC Test Match Special
Quote MessageBit of a headache for Meg Lanning here about how they are going to break this partnership.
Image source, Getty ImagesCoyte in for her third over, but Taylor and Edwards are both using their feet well against the seamers to put them off their length. Five from the over, with both batters eyeing up half-centuries - this stand is worth 75.
In tennis terms, Australia have three match points to win the Women's Ashes. And unless they break this partnership, they'll be down to two.
The cap-wearing Grace Harris to continue, her off-spin looks fairly innocuous but it's sometimes those sorts of bowlers who get you out. Remember Steve Smith getting Alastair Cook out last Friday? A quieter over for England, four singles from it so they're keeping the run rate pretty constant - 48 needed from 48 balls.
Ebony Rainford-Brent
Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special
Quote MessageThey're getting a good measure of the pitch, which the Australians struggled to do.
Captain Lanning rotates her bowlers, Sarah Coyte has switched to the Hayes Close End, but it's business as usual for the old firm of Edwards and Taylor - the captain does well to find a gap wide of mid-on for four, while Villani does well to chase one to the long-off boundary. The hosts need 52 from 54 balls to keep the series alive.
Quote MessageWe're going well and these two are building a good partnership so the nerves are in a good place. We're all aware we need to win this one to stay in it and it's a case of turning things around. The girls bowled fantastically and that was backed up in the field. We love playing here at Chelmsford and the crowd have been phenomenal.
Lauren Winfield, England opener on Sky Sports
Grace Harris into the attack - and she's bowling in a cap! Time to enter her into the cap-bowling hall of fame which includes Geoffrey Boycott (of course) and ex-Australia all-rounder Lisa Sthalekar. Though listed on the TV caption as "right-arm medium", it looks like Harris is bowling off-spin, though at one point she bowls an enormously high full toss of the sort you'd see on a village green. It's not signalled as a no-ball though, as the bemused Taylor knocks it away for a single.
England are at the halfway point of their innings in all senses - 10 overs gone, 62 runs scored, 61 needed.
Image source, ReutersAll too easy for Taylor as Jonassen bowls an inviting full toss and the Sussex wicketkeeper lifts it back over her head for four. A single takes Taylor to 29 from 21 balls - Edwards is batting more serenely, but knocks a two to third man to bring up the fifty stand. The singles are flowing very freely. 66 needed from 66.
Another high full toss, this time from a spinner, doesn't tempt the umpire so signal a no-ball - but Edwards swats it away for a single.
England need 76 from 72 balls - were it to rain now, they're 35 ahead on Duckworth-Lewis.
Izzy Westbury
Middlesex captain on BBC Test Match Special
Quote MessageCould that be a turning point? It should have been taken. Those last two balls I have started to get a little bit jittery. It's much easier when you're playing.
Eng 45-1
Spin from both ends as off-spinner Erin Osborne comes to the party, bowling round the wicket from the River End. Osborne had the briefest of stays with the bat, hitting her only delivery for a single and being run out coming back for the second. But she's let down when Edwards skips down the track and is dropped by Villani leaping to her left at mid-off. Could be crucial.
Izzy Westbury
Middlesex captain on BBC Test Match Special
Quote MessagePerhaps a little lack of concentration from Meg Lanning not putting a fine-leg or a third man for Taylor. Some of those runs could have been saved. This was the point where Australia had a little glimmer of explosiveness.
Image source, Getty ImagesWith the powerplay fielding restrictions over, Australia turn to Jess Jonassen's left-arm spin, but England are happy to milk her first over for a couple of singles, a carefully dabbed two to third man and a well-run three from a delicate Taylor paddle-sweep.
Charles Dagnall
BBC Test Match Special
Quote MessageA much more productive powerplay for England than Australia.
Taylor tries a dab to third man, it flies off an inside edge to fine leg but some great backing up from Edwards ensures it's a comfortable single. At the risk of a commentator's curse, but I have to say it, these two are being really positive between the wickets. Australia were 26-1 at this stage.