Summary

  • Eng win by 40 runs (won toss)

  • Australia retained Ashes in opening T20 on Friday

  • Hosts now lead multi-format, points-based series 8-6

  • Deciding game on Tuesday (2pts available)

Live Reporting

Mark Mitchener

  1. Isa Guha
    Ex-England seamer on BBC Test Match Special

    I think it's benefited Katherine being able to bowl outside the powerplay. She's really done a job for Heather Knight.

  2. Aus 68-5

    Brunt 3-0-6-2

    Delissa Kimmince joins Haynes at the crease, surely it's England's to lose from here? Brunt continues for her third over, Australia can only operate in singles, taking three from the over - they need 85 from 54 balls. Brunt is bowling beautifully, but unfortunately for England she only has one over left.

  3. Charlotte Edwards
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    This is poor cricket from Australia. With three people on the legside boundary, they're hitting into a breeze, and Gardner has picked out the fielder.

  4. wicket

    WICKET

    Gardner c Brunt b Hazell 8 (Aus 65-5)

    ...or does it? Gardner tries to take Hazell on again, and that's straight down Katherine Brunt's throat at deep mid-wicket!

    Australia need 88 from 60 balls, but have lost wickets in each of the last five overs.

  5. 6 runs

    Aus 65-4

    Haynes is off the mark, bending down to reverse-flick Hazell down to third man for four. And Gardner launches an incredible six with a powerful inside-out hit over long-off. Just when we were writing Australia off, a big over keeps them in the hunt...

  6. Jim Maxwell
    BBC Test Match Special

    Australia have gone from the penthouse to the cellar very quickly here.

  7. Charlotte Edwards
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    You feel that when Meg Lanning returns from injury, Elyse Villani's place will be most at risk. For me, Rachael Haynes has done enough to stay in the team.

  8. Aus 54-4

    Target 153

    All-rounder Ashleigh Gardner in next - and suddenly England are on top of the game. Gardner keeps picking out fielders, and only a top edge to third man off the last ball denies the Barnsley speedster a T20 wicket maiden.

  9. Jim Maxwell
    BBC Test Match Special

    Perry dragged it onto her foot, and it bounced off her foot onto the stumps. An unlucky dismissal, and England have their tails up.

  10. wicket

    WICKET

    Perry b Brunt 5 (Aus 52-4)

    Oh, if only England had some luck like this during the Test, the Ashes might still be alive - Perry aims a full-blooded pull shot at Brunt, and the ball squirms off her foot and rolls agonisingly onto the stumps!

  11. View from the press box

  12. Aus 52-3

    Target 153

    Captain Rachael Haynes joins Perry, who steers Gunn for a couple through the covers. Australia need 101 from 72 balls.

  13. Charlotte Edwards
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    Healy was going for mid-wicket, but didn't get enough on it and it went straight to mid-on. Three disappointing wickets for Australia, England haven't had to work hard for them.

  14. wicket

    WICKET

    Healy c Shrubsole b Gunn 24 (Aus 49-3)

    Medium-pacer Jenny Gunn, so experienced in putting the brakes on in mid-innings, strikes with her third ball - inducing the dangerous Alyssa Healy to hole out at mid-on.

  15. Aus 48-2

    Target 153

    Last week's Test double centurion Ellyse Perry is in at four, and off the mark with a single. Healy is still there on 24 from 20 balls.

  16. Charlotte Edwards
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    I can't see why she came out of her crease. You're not going to get away with that when Sarah Taylor's keeping.

  17. wicket

    WICKET

    Villani st Taylor b Brunt 1 (Aus 47-2)

    And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what you get when one of the world's best wicketkeepers is able to stand up to the stumps to one of the fastest bowlers in women's cricket. Villani, trying to bat outside her crease, misses and Sarah Taylor nonchalantly removes a bail before Villani can even get her bat back down.

  18. Aus 47-1

    Katherine Brunt replaces Shrubsole at what Jim Maxwell on TMS has dubbed "the Enid Bakewell End" - as England legend Bakewell, a veteran of the 1973 World Cup, is sitting there watching.

  19. Aus 47-1

    Target 153

    Elyse Villani in at three for Australia.

  20. Australia seamer Megan Schutt on TMS: "England were batting pretty well, but I just tried to bowl as many yorkers as I could. Beth Mooney started well and was unlucky with the run-out. When Alyssa Healy's in form, she's hard to stop, and hopefully she can see it through for us."