After victories within the one-off Test and opening T20, Australia had been only one win away from retaining the Urn heading into Wednesday evening’s T20 at The Oval. However, a terrific batting efficiency from Danni Wyatt helped England to their first win over the serial world champions since 2019 in entrance of a crowd of greater than 20,000.
Heather Knight’s aspect nonetheless path 6-2 within the multi-format collection and know their slim Ashes hopes will as soon as once more be on the road at Lord’s, the place tickets sails are closing in on 20,000, however will likely be buoyed by clearing what the skipper known as a “psychological hurdle”. England have renewed perception that they will pull again inside putting distance heading into subsequent week’s three ODIs.
“If the crowd on Saturday get to experience what anybody has experienced so far this week at Edgbaston and The Oval then we’re all in for such a treat and another inspiring occasion,” stated Clare Connor, England’s managing director of girls’s cricket.
Celebration: England saved their Ashes hopes alive with an exciting T20 win at The Oval
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MCC members attending the fixture face higher restrictions within the wake of Sunday’s controversy throughout the males’s Second Ashes Test.
Australian gamers had been confronted by members within the Long Room over the stumping of Jonny Bairstow in an incident the MCC chair, Bruce Carnegie-Brown, says “brought shame” on the membership.
The MCC have promised to take a “tougher stance on the general behaviour of members”, with the rope cordon separating gamers from spectators widened and members barred from the Pavilion staircase space – the place a number of Australian gamers had been heckled – whereas gamers are making their approach to or from the dressing rooms.
The measures will stay in place all through the summer time earlier than the membership conducts a evaluation forward of subsequent season.
