Women's Ashes: England v Australia, 3rd T20, Cardiff, as it happened

Summary

Eng 114-5 - win by five wickets
Sciver hits career-best 47 for England
Aus 111 all out - Shrubsole 4-11, Sciver 4-15
Blackwell 24 & Harris 24 (3 sixes)

Live Reporting

Mark Mitchener

Captain's viewpublished at 10:24 British Summer Time 31 August 2015
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I’m convinced it is a doubled-sided coin! The conditions are fine and we hope to put a score on. We would have bowled but we will deal with it. It is time for our batters to stand up. We had a good celebration on Friday. But we are back on board today to finish the series on a high. It is important we finish as well as we can. England will come out fighting so we need to match them.
Australia captain Meg Lanning
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Ebony Rainford-Brent
Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special
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Winfield can hit the ball hard - I think maybe it's about mentally being switched on to the higher level. I think England will look to keep her around.
Captain's viewpublished at 10:23 British Summer Time 31 August 2015
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I've done well with the tosses this series. Hopefully Katherine [Brunt] and Anya [Shrubsole] can produce a big effort today. There has been rain overnight and hopefully we can make most of it and out the Aussies under pressure. It has been disappointing. It is now about playing for pride. This T20 is a series in a series and the team is determined to put in a performance. None of the batters have performed well this series but today is another chance.
England captain Charlotte Edwards
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Ebony Rainford-Brent
Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special
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A big game for England, they need to fight for pride. Lauren Winfield has a lot of talent, but she's not been able to find ehr mark in this series. Dani Wyatt has had a stop-start England career, but she's scored a truckload of runs in county cricket so it's a good opportunity for her.
Weather forecastpublished at 10:21
BBC Weather's Chris Fawkes: "We had a few spots of rain earlier, but things will improve, the cloud will slowly thin and we should see a few sunny spells later this afternoon. It should be a dry match - they might need the floodlights, but I don't think the weather will affect the match."
Pitch (less than) perfect?published at 10:19
A sub-plot to today's internationals at Cardiff was the departure of head groundsman Keith Exton less than a week ago, following an investigation into an unfit pitch for a recent Glamorgan v Hampshire game. Chief executive Hugh Morris stresses the decision was mutual, but accepts the pitch will be focused on today.
Live nowpublished at 10:15
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"It's overcast, its' time to huddle up and get those jackets on," warns Alison Mitchell.
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Get involvedpublished at 10:11
So, what do you make of that England change - and would you make further changes (in personnel or tactics) after this series defeat?
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England team line-uppublished at 10:07
Australia team line-uppublished at 10:06
Toss and team newspublished at 10:05
England have won the toss and elect to field first. They make one change, with Georgia Elwiss preferred to Lauren Winfield, while Danielle Wyatt moves up from number eight to open.
Australia are unchanged, but from their team sheet it looks like a change in the batting order with captain Meg Lanning opening, Jess Cameron at three and Ellyse Perry down from opener to four.
Carry on Captainpublished at 10:03
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The Women's Ashes, sadly for England, are no longer at stake as Australia have an unassailable 10-4 lead going into this final game which is worth two points in the multi-format series, after the Southern Stars won the second T20 at Hove.
Captain Charlotte Edwards insisted after that game that she wanted to carry on as skipper. She said: "I feel I have a lot to contribute to this team.This is not the time to walk away from English cricket. I don't think one bad series defines me as a player or captain."
Double-header alertpublished at 10:00
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Morning, everyone. I'm sure there will be a slight end-of-term feel about today's double-header from Cardiff. There will be a prize-giving later, but everyone knows who's going to be picking up a trophy.
With England and Australia's men meeting at 15:00 BST for a one-off Twenty20 international, we'll be talking about that a lot more later, but for now we're concentrating on the final match of the Women's Ashes at 10:30.