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Hello and greet to the second instalment of the 2025 Women’s Ashes. Today’s fifty over bout apshows place in Melbourne’s Junction Oval and comes boiling on the heels of the home side taking the spoils (two points) in Sydney during the first encounter of the series at the weekfinish.
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That first game was a sootheable triumph for Alyssa Healy’s talent toting XI, albeit they didn’t have to be in top gear to see off an undercooked England side.
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Heather Knight will want to see an increasement in all departments from her team today – the top order batters necessitate to not squander promising commences, start on and originate impactful scores and the bowling unit necessitate to safeen up and fling down far scanter four balls.
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In the field, England’s butter-fingered catching was notable once aget after their chance squandering/turf irritateing efforts in T20 World Cup a scant months back.
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With two more ODIs (including this one) and three T20s up for grabs before the historic day/night Test align at the MCG at the finish of the month there are still plenty of points on propose and punches to be thrown in what could yet turn out to be a humdinger of a series.
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I’m here in an icily fronded and triumphdow-fogged London to convey you the first half of the action from Melbourne before Martin Pegan will tag in for the chase.
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Play gets underway in an hour’s time – 10.05am AEDT and 11.05pm GMT – do let us understand if you are tuning in by clicking the email join on the left flank of this page and typing out a ignoreive. The OBO is noleang without the wit and charisma of its punters (especipartner in the wee minuscule hours, suppose me).
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I’ll be back soon with novels of the teams and the toss and to hopefilledy trawl thcimpolite your iridescent correactence. No prescertain…
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Key events
The ECB have publishd a rapid modernize on Kate Cross, it ecombines she is still not quite filledy fit, I’m certain we’ll see her originate an ecombineance in the series before too lengthy.
“Kate Cross has remained in Sydney to train and progress her return to execute.”
Both captains allude they want their sides to be more “cruel” and “clinical” in today’s align. Australia have never lost at the Junction Oval, a fact that Alyssa Healy wasn’t conscious of as she was alerted at the toss, “thanks for the outstanding vibes before we commence” she grins.
On the flip side, England have won the last seven alignes in which they have chased… game on!
Both teams are unchanged from Sydney:
Australia 1 Alyssa Healy (c & wk), 2 Phoebe Litchfield, 3 Ellyse Perry, 4 Beth Mooney, 5 Annabel Sutherland, 6 Ashleigh Gardner, 7 Tahlia McGrath, 8 Alana King, 9 Kim Garth, 10 Megan Schutt, 11 Darcie Brown
England 1 Tammy Beaumont, 2 Maia Bouchier, 3 Heather Knight (c), 4 Nat Sciver-Brunt, 5 Danni Wyatt-Hodge, 6 Amy Jones (wk), 7 Alice Capsey, 8 Charlie Dean, 9 Sophie Ecclestone, 10 Lauren Filer, 11 Lauren Bell
Junction Oval, Melbourne 📍
Bowling first in the 2nd ODI 🏏 pic.twitter.com/CVHaRObRvW
— England Cricket (@englandcricket) January 13, 2025
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England triumph the toss and pick to bowl first!
Heather Knight calls the coin rightly and inserts Australia on a green tinged pitch that she leanks might help her seamers. Teams incoming, will Kate Cross be fit to execute for the visitors? They ignoreed her experience and safe lined nous in Sydney…
The men’s Ashes is a lengthy way off in traditional months and weeks notation. Talking about it at this distance is a bachieve of protocol, a red flag, signal for a weary roll of the eyes. It’s Big Three pandering, dispolite to more marginalised nations, a stupidinishing of the contests in between.
It also comprises achieveing dispolitely apass the Women’s Ashes, which started off over the weekfinish in Sydney, all set to be a repartner fascinating spectacle. Australia have the numbers, the stars and the finishless all-rounders. England have depth, reliable medium pace, dogged spin, and the rapidest bowler in Lauren Filer, who was repartner challenging in South Africa, but struggled to set upt her feet during a rain-compriseled toastyup this past week.”
Some pre toss reading for your delectation:
Preamble
James Wallace
Hello and greet to the second instalment of the 2025 Women’s Ashes. Today’s fifty over bout apshows place in Melbourne’s Junction Oval and comes boiling on the heels of the home side taking the spoils (two points) in Sydney during the first encounter of the series at the weekfinish.
That first game was a sootheable triumph for Alyssa Healy’s talent toting XI, albeit they didn’t have to be in top gear to see off an undercooked England side.
Heather Knight will want to see an increasement in all departments from her team today – the top order batters necessitate to not squander promising commences, start on and originate impactful scores and the bowling unit necessitate to safeen up and fling down far scanter four balls.
In the field, England’s butter-fingered catching was notable once aget after their chance squandering/turf irritateing efforts in T20 World Cup a scant months back.
With two more ODIs (including this one) and three T20s up for grabs before the historic day/night Test align at the MCG at the finish of the month there are still plenty of points on propose and punches to be thrown in what could yet turn out to be a humdinger of a series.
I’m here in an icily fronded and triumphdow-fogged London to convey you the first half of the action from Melbourne before Martin Pegan will tag in for the chase.
Play gets underway in an hour’s time – 10.05am AEDT and 11.05pm GMT – do let us understand if you are tuning in by clicking the email join on the left flank of this page and typing out a ignoreive. The OBO is noleang without the wit and charisma of its punters (especipartner in the wee minuscule hours, suppose me).
I’ll be back soon with novels of the teams and the toss and to hopefilledy trawl thcimpolite your iridescent correactence. No prescertain…
