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)

Live Reporting

Callum Matthews and Sam Drury

  1. Aus 31-2

    Superb delivery from Kate Cross. The ball nips back to beat Ellyse Perry's inside edge as the Australia all-rounder pushed forward on the drive.

    This has been a very good start for England.

  2. Phil Long
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    Alyssa Healy's poor Ashes continues - she has only made one half-century in this series.

  3. Aus 31-2

    Beth Mooney is in at four for Australia and gets off the mark in style with a crunching drive through the covers for four.

    This is a crucial partnership for the tourists, two very experienced players at the crease and they'll need to use that experience following the loss of two early wickets.

  4. Alex Blackwell
    Former Australia batter on BBC Test Match Special

    BellGetty Images

    She's got to happy with that, Lauren Bell. Getting a wicket of that stature. She's a tall athlete and gets extra bounce off that pitch.

  5. Two wickets now for Lauren Bell. Here is the first of them, Phoebe Litchfield trapped lbw for four...

  6. Ffion Wynne
    BBC Sport at The Ageas Bowl

    That is a pretty horrific shot.

    Alyssa Healy just offering England a bit of catching practice. England will be delighted with this start.

  7. Alex Blackwell
    Former Australia batter on BBC Test Match Special

    Fair play to Kate Cross, who pinned down Alyssa Healy in the previous over. Lauren Bell bowled into the wicket, it was catching practice.

  8. wicket

    WICKET

    Healy c Capsey b Bell 13 (Aus 27-2)

    Such a soft dismissal for Alyssa Healy!

    The Australia skipper gives Alice Capsey catching practice at short third as Lauren Bell sends down a short, wide delivery.

    Two wickets for Bell and both Aussie openers are gone.

  9. How's stat?!

    Alex Blackwell mentioned how Lauren Bell's short ball is proving effective in this series. Today, bar one four, her short stuff has either taken a wicket or resulted in a dot ball.

    Lauren Bell

  10. Aus 27-1

    Good over from Kate Cross.

    Three from the over, two via an inside edge from Alyssa Healy, who then guides the last to deep third for a single.

  11. Alex Blackwell
    Former Australia batter on BBC Test Match Special

    This move to have Jones up to the stumps it's really working to Healy. Not allowing Cross to change her length and Healy is getting trapped on the crease at the moment.

  12. Aus 24-1

    Big appeal for lbw as Kate Cross raps Alyssa Healy on the pad.

    With Amy Jones up to the stumps, Healy is caught on the crease.

    Given not out and England didn't review. That looked close, though.

  13. Alex Blackwell
    Former Australia batter on BBC Test Match Special

    HealyReuters

    It's beautiful out there today, the crowd is almost full, there's hardly a spare seat out there.

  14. Aus 24-1

    Edged... and four.

    Back-to-back boundaries for Ellyse Perry but the second is far less controlled.

    Shorter and slightly wider delivery from Lauren Bell, Perry slashes at it and the ball flies off the edge but just out of reach of Heather Knight at slip.

  15. Aus 20-1

    Ellyse Perry is off the mark with a boundary.

    It's a swinging delivery that comes back a long way from Lauren Bell but Perry times it well, picking the gap between mid-wicket and mid-on.

    The outfield is fast and the ball races to the boundary cushion.

  16. Henry Moeran
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    England's fielding at Bristol, and I don't use this word lightly, was pants.

  17. Aus 15-1

    Kate Cross got Alyssa Healy lbw at Bristol and is clearly trying to repeat that dismissal.

    However, for the second time in the over, that leads to a leg-stump delivery that the Australia opener can punish through the leg side.

  18. Aus 11-1

    Full, on the pads and whipped away for four by Alyssa Healy.

    That was a bit of a gimme from Kate Cross.

  19. Alex Blackwell
    Former Australia batter on BBC Test Match Special

    The other thing I like about Bell, she is willing to go to the short delivery, which Australia have done throughout this series. Bell has really grown throughout this series and is becoming a real leader.

  20. Aus 7-1

    Ellyse Perry is in at three for Australia and sees out the remainder of the over.

    She's in early again but these situations won't faze her.