Summary

  • England hold nerve to win by three runs - Australia now lead points-based series 6-2

  • Australia slip to 75-4 & 160-7 after being 59-0

  • Perry's late onslaught - 51 off 27 balls - not enough for Australia

  • Ecclestone reaches 100 T20 wickets - the quickest to the mark

  • England set Australia 187 to win, despite losing five wickets for 19 runs in 23 balls

  • Sutherland takes two wickets in two balls and superb catch

  • Wyatt top-scores with 76 off 46 balls

  • Next match: Third T20 at Lord's, Saturday (18:35 BST)

  • Highlights on BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport app from 23:00 BST

Live Reporting

Callum Matthews and Mike Peter

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    Feels like the only issue left in this series is if England can avoid losing every match. Mismatch I'm afraid.

    Jim, Sevenoaks

  2. Aus 16-0

    Target 187

    Eh! You don't see that too often.

    Alyssa Healy tries to reverse sweep Charlie Dean, but with the back of her bat!?!

    Amy Jones goes up for a catch and then contemplates a stumping.

    Healy survives though and bunts the final ball to the cover boundary.

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

    It's great that England have a genuine off-spinner in the team and they are bringing her on to the Australian left-hander. That might give England an advantage.

  4. A change of pace for England as off-spinner Charlie Dean, who is back into the side tonight, comes on.

  5. Aus 9-0

    Target 187

    Brilliant from Sophie Ecclestone at mid-off.

    Beth Mooney advances down the track and drives away, but Ecclestone, at full stretch, does superbly to stop it.

    Just three singles from the first five balls. Can Lauren Bell get out of the over? No. Alyssa Healy uses her feet and threads perfectly through point for Australia's first boundary.

  6. Aus 4-0

    Target 187

    One of the Australia players is having some treatment on her right foot in the dug-out.

    Not what I particularly wanted to see while I try and eat a choccy biscuit.

  7. Right-arm seamer Lauren Bell is going to bowl the second over.

  8. Beth Mooney was in fine form in the first T20...

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

    I look at the T20 batting rankings and Tahlia McGrath is number one. I always think, surely it should be Beth Mooney... but then I see Beth is at number two. One of five Australians in the top 10. England don't have any.

  10. Aus 2-0

    Target 187

    Catch it! No. Just short. Beth Mooney has a little push at Nat Sciver-Brunt but the edge drops just short of Heather Knight at slip.

    The left-hander gets off the mark next ball with a drive out to deep point.

    Good start for England, though.

  11. Aus 1-0

    Target 187

    Decent start from Nat Sciver-Brunt.

    Alyssa Healy pushes the first ball into the covers for a single, before two drives from Beth Mooney find fielders.

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

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    If England can win the powerplay, and put scoreboard pressure on Australia, they have a chance. It's do or die for England now.

  13. Right, the players are back out there.

    Nat Sciver-Brunt, who has been struggling with a knee injury, is going to take the new ball.

  14. A large part of England's 186-9 was down to opener Danni Wyatt.

    She made 76 off 46 balls and here are some of her best shots for you to enjoy.

  15. Want to see the middle-order collapse that Ffion mentions?

    Here you go.

    England lost five wickets for 19 runs in 23 balls to move from 110-1 to 129-6.

  16. Ffion Wynne
    BBC Sport at The Oval

    I timed my walk around The Oval rather badly as England's middle order collapsed, but the atmosphere is genuinely amazing.

    Not quite as lively as Edgbaston, probably because it's midweek - but definitely similar crowd numbers, which is absolutely incredible and at such an iconic ground, too.

    England haven't played here since 2009, when they beat Australia in the final of the first T20 World Cup...

  17. Thanks Mike.

    This would be Australia's highest chase in T20 cricket. Admittedly they probably don't let teams make 186 very often!

    If they do it you have to sort of just say well done and move on, but England have given themselves a chance of keeping the Ashes alive.

  18. Well, England were flying there, reaching 100 for the loss of one wicket.

    But a flurry of dismissals soon found them 119 for 6.

    They continued to bat aggressively, with Danni Wyatt top scoring with 76 and have reached a competitive total for the world champions to face.

    Here's Callum Matthews for the chase.

  19. England's Danni Wyatt talking to Sky Sports: "It was a little bit tricky, I found it hard to hit the sightscreen but any width and short was easier and sat up.

    "We are really happy with 186 but we'll have to bowl well to restrict them to that.

    "I just wanted to keep batting my way and if the ball was there to hit it. I just wanted to keep hitting boundaries and backed myself and said to relax.

    "Charlie Dean has been bowling really well in practice so hopefully she can take that into the game. I'm really confident the girls can do it tonight."

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

    England kept losing wickets but they kept coming hard.

    That is what Jon Lewis has asked for. They know they will find it hard to beat England with that attacking state of mind.