Summary

  • Australia retain Ashes and now lead multi-format series 8-4

  • Sciver top-scores with 45; Skipper Knight out first ball

  • Brown takes 4-34 as England's chase hindered by poor shots

  • England limit Australia to 205-9

  • Three wickets for Cross & Brunt; Mooney hits 73

  • Lanning passes 4,000 WODI runs - third Australian to do so

  1. Postpublished at 08:32 Greenwich Mean Time 3 February 2022

    England are still in the box-seat run-rate wise, but wickets in hand are starting to become a concern.

    Worm
  2. Postpublished at 08:31 Greenwich Mean Time 3 February 2022

    Alex Hartley
    England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Sophia Dunkley is such a wonderful young talent. She holds the bat with a wide grip, different from other players, so she hits the ball in peculiar areas. She slaps the ball and is so powerful.

  3. Postpublished at 08:31 Greenwich Mean Time 3 February 2022

    Leg-spinner Alana King enters the attack and Sophia Dunkley comes to the crease.

  4. Postpublished at 08:30 Greenwich Mean Time 3 February 2022

    Kristen Beams
    Ex-Australia leg-spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    To say Australia needed that wicket is an understatement.

  5. Postpublished at 08:30 Greenwich Mean Time 3 February 2022

    At the point Amy Jones hits the ball, it's definitely above waist height.

    And I don't think you could've been certain it was dropping low enough had she missed it.

  6. Postpublished at 08:30 Greenwich Mean Time 3 February 2022

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  7. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 20 overs

    Jones c Perry b McGrath 16 (Eng 74-4)

    Amy Jones is walking off. She's been given out.

    Hmmmmm. I'm not sure about that. From one angle it looked definitely above waist height. I think England can feel a bit aggrieved here.

    The upshot though is that England have lost their fourth wicket at a terrible time.

    Jones picked out Ellyse Perry at deep square leg off a borderline full toss from Tahlia McGrath.

    The debate about this one will rage on, you reckon.

  8. Postpublished at 08:27 Greenwich Mean Time 3 February 2022

    Kristen Beams
    Ex-Australia leg-spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    The players are standing around unsure what to do - nobody knows whether to celebrate the wicket, and the batter doesn't know whether to walk off.

  9. Postpublished at 08:26 Greenwich Mean Time 3 February 2022

    She could get a reprieve...

    The third umpire is taking a long time over this.

  10. Postpublished at 08:26 Greenwich Mean Time 3 February 2022

    Kristen Beams
    Ex-Australia leg-spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Amy Jones stood there in utter disappointment.

  11. Postpublished at 08:26 Greenwich Mean Time 3 February 2022

    Oh this is tight!

    But I think it's above Amy Jones' waist height and should be called a no-ball...

  12. Third umpirepublished at 08:25 Greenwich Mean Time 3 February 2022

    Amy Jones has battered a full toss from Tahlia McGrath straight down the throat of a fielder.

    They are checking the no-ball though...

  13. Postpublished at 08:23 Greenwich Mean Time 3 February 2022

    Kristen Beams
    Ex-Australia leg-spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    England don't need to take any risks at the moment.

  14. Eng 71-3published at 18.2 overs

    Shot! Amy Jones bashes another lofted drive down the ground for four off Jess Jonassen.

  15. Eng 66-3published at 18 overs

    Need 140 more to win

    Australia turn to Tahlia McGrath to try and break this partnership.

    And she almost does first up, finding Nat Sciver's outside edge, but the ball flies safely away through a vacant cordon.

    The next absolutely fizzes up off a length, leaving Alyssa Healy no chance standing up to the stumps as it deflects off her shoulder and away for a bye.

  16. Postpublished at 08:16 Greenwich Mean Time 3 February 2022

    Kristen Beams
    Ex-Australia leg-spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    That was a really nice shot from Amy Jones. Jess Jonassen didn't put that into the wicket enough, it had a little bit more air. Australia need to catch Jones on the crease a little more. Australia need to dry up the boundaries like England did. If there are long periods without one you'll see English wickets fall.

  17. Eng 63-3published at 17 overs

    Target 206

    Hello! Amy Jones lofts a drive back over Jess Jonassen's head and away for four.

    A welcome first boundary in six overs for England.

  18. Postpublished at 08:12 Greenwich Mean Time 3 February 2022

    Kristen Beams
    Ex-Australia leg-spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Australia's players are in a huddle at drinks and they be looking up at the scoreboard thinking 'we need some more wickets' with Danni Wyatt and Sophia Dunkley yet to come before England's experienced lower order.

  19. drinks break

    Drinks breakpublished at 08:12 Greenwich Mean Time 3 February 2022

    Time for both sides to take stock.

  20. Eng 59-3published at 16 overs

    Sciver 32 off 44 balls

    It's been a fine innings by Nat Sciver so far.

    A couple of streaky shots but otherwise she's been busy. The type of innings where you look up at the scoreboard and the batter has passed 30 without much fuss.

    England will need her to take this deep.