Summary

  • Australia retain Ashes following narrow three-run win

  • Highlights on BBC iPlayer & BBC Two from 23:00 BST (Sunday)

  • Tourists now lead points-based multi-format series 8-6 with one ODI to play

  • Sciver-Brunt's brilliant 111* off 99 balls keeps England in contention

  • Australia's spinners take all wickets to fall

  • Beaumont (60) gets England off to good start

  • Wareham hammers 26 off final over as Australia post 282-7

  • Perry makes 91 after England fail to take three chances

  • Bell takes three wickets for England but proves expensive (3-85 off 9)

  1. 6 runs

    Aus 262-7published at 49.1 overs

    Six to start!

    Georgia Wareham uses the pace from Lauren Bell and pulls over Sophia Dunkley on the square-leg boundary.

    Lovely strike.

  2. Postpublished at 14:06 British Summer Time 16 July 2023

    Katherine Sciver-Brunt
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    That's an exceptional over from Nat, the penultimate over. That will give Lauren Bell more breathing room. She showed her experience, I'm probably being biased.

  3. Aus 256-7published at 49 overs

    Jonassen 5, Wareham 11

    Two singles end the over.

    Just five from the penultimate over.

    Superb stuff from Nat Sciver-Brunt.

  4. Aus 254-7published at 48.4 overs

    Three singles from the first four balls of Nat Sciver-Brunt's over.

    Can she get out of the over?

  5. How's stat?!published at 14:03 British Summer Time 16 July 2023

    It brought her demise eventually, but Annabel Sutherland scored the majority of her runs down the ground and through the mid-wicket region.

    Sutherland wagon wheel
  6. Postpublished at 14:03 British Summer Time 16 July 2023

    Katherine Sciver-Brunt
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    251-7 currently, two more overs. I think if England can restrict these last two overs to sevens, that would be a success.

  7. Postpublished at 14:02 British Summer Time 16 July 2023

    Katherine Sciver-Brunt
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    A lovely strike, all hands. She backed away to the leg side a little bit. Wareham can be dangerous, Bell hasn't come up against her all that often.

  8. Aus 251-7published at 48 overs

    Shot!

    Georgia Wareham backs away to the leg side, freeing up her hands and is able to loft over mid-off for four.

    She's a danger for England in the remaining 12 balls.

  9. Postpublished at 13:59 British Summer Time 16 July 2023

    Katherine Sciver-Brunt
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    EcclestoneImage source, Reuters

    That's something we see often here, when you are batting against spin trying to go downtown, you never quite hit it far enough. That's the thing I hope we know moving into the second innings.

  10. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 47 overs

    Sutherland c Capsey b Ecclestone 50 (Aus 240-7)

    Two wickets in the over! And two BIG ones!

    Annabel Sutherland tries to slog Sophie Ecclestone into Southampton but she can only pick out Alice Capsey on the long-on boundary.

    England have removed both set batters in the same over. Time for the squeeze!

  11. How's stat?!published at 13:57 British Summer Time 16 July 2023

    Phil Long
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    91 is Ellyse Perry's best score against England in ODIs.

  12. Postpublished at 13:57 British Summer Time 16 July 2023

    Katherine Sciver-Brunt
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Thank the lord! Just the four goes for Ellyse. She finally comes to an end, albeit right on the boundary going for it right at the end. An honourable innings, rode her luck the whole way through but she did well to get to 91.

  13. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 46.3 overs

    Perry c sub (Dean) b Ecclestone 91 (Aus 239-6)

    Ecclestone has got the wicket she and England wanted!

    Ellyse Perry looks hit over long-off but she is only able to pick out Charlie Dean on the boundary.

    A crucial breakthrough for England. Can they now squeeze?

  14. 50 runs

    50 for Sutherlandpublished at 46.2 overs

    A second international half-century for Annabel Sutherland.

    Her first was in the Test earlier in the series.

  15. Postpublished at 13:55 British Summer Time 16 July 2023

    Katherine Sciver-Brunt
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    I'm upset. This was England's game and in their hands, you concentrate on batting and bowling, the one you don't concentrate enough on is mindset and it is disappointing. It feels like a broken record saying how many times have England let Ellyse Perry off.

  16. Postpublished at 13:54 British Summer Time 16 July 2023

    Sophie Ecclestone is going to bowl her final over as England look to get the prize wicket of Ellyse Perry.

  17. How's stat?!published at 13:54 British Summer Time 16 July 2023

    According to CricViz's captaincy grid, which rates each bowler's chances of getting each batter out, Lauren Bell and Sophie Ecclestone are the best options to try and get Ellyse Perry out.

  18. Aus 238-5published at 46 overs

    Screams of "catchhhh itttt" as Ellyse Perry plinks a drive in the air but Charlie Dean is unable to get up in time from long-on to take the catch.

    Just four runs from Lauren Bell's over.

  19. Postpublished at 13:52 British Summer Time 16 July 2023

    Annabel Sutherland was superb in the Test and she's been brilliant again today.

    She's a magnificent timer of the ball.

  20. Postpublished at 13:50 British Summer Time 16 July 2023

    Ffion Wynne
    BBC Sport at The Ageas Bowl

    Perry & SutherlandImage source, PA Media

    Is it just me that's getting 'master and apprentice' vibes from Perry and Sutherland here?

    Ominous!