England’s dismal Ashes tour ended with an innings-and-122-run hammering within the one-off Check as they grew to become the primary aspect to be whitewashed 16-0 within the historical past of the multi-format sequence after slumping towards Australia’s spinners once more.
The loss on day three of the pink-ball recreation on the MCG adopted six successive white-ball defeats, with England swept in each the one-day worldwide and T20 worldwide legs.
Heather Knight’s staff had really impressed earlier on Saturday in Melbourne, taking the ultimate 5 Australia wickets for 9 runs to dismiss the hosts for 440 earlier than reaching 79-1 of their second knock by means of Knight (32) and Tammy Beaumont (47).
Nonetheless, as soon as the skipper was caught at quick leg off Ash Gardner (4-39) halfway by means of the second session, these acquainted frailties towards spin got here to the fore as soon as extra as they had been bundled out for 148 in 68.4 overs.
Leg-spinner Alana King (5-53) fittingly took the profitable wicket of tailender Lauren Filer (14 off 45) as she earned her ninth scalp of the sport and twenty third of the sequence.
The 29-year-old earlier pinned Nat Sciver-Brunt (18) lbw earlier than bowling Sophia Dunkley (4) with a shocking supply that pitched outdoors leg stump and turned again to hit off – a ball her idol, the late Shane Warne, would have been happy with.
King then castled Beaumont off an inside edge, with that wicket sandwiched by off-spinner Gardner’s dismissals of Danni Wyatt-Hodge (2) and Amy Jones (6), with the batters out sweeping to backward sq. and snicking behind respectively.
That England collapse of 5-17 left the vacationers 117-7 on the dinner break and nonetheless trailing by 157 runs, all however guaranteeing that Australia would win the sport with over a day to spare.
That duly occurred with Ryana MacDonald-Homosexual (1) heaving a King full toss to deep midwicket, Ecclestone (18) hacking a half-tracker from Gardner to mid-on and Filer, after a dogged Tenth-wicket stand with Lauren Bell (0no off 30) that lasted 48 deliveries, spooning leg-side.
The England and Wales Cricket Board will now conduct a radical overview into the nightmare tour, which can absolutely embrace dialogue over the futures of Knight and head coach Jon Lewis.
Mooney makes Australia historical past earlier than Ecclestone clinches five-for
Earlier on, Beth Mooney (106) grew to become the primary Australian to attain a century in all three codecs of girls’s worldwide cricket.
Mooney joins England’s Knight and Beaumont and South Africa’s Laura Wolvaardt in attaining the feat after three one-day worldwide tons and two T20I a whole bunch.
Beth Mooney is the primary Australian – and fourth participant total – to attain a century in all three codecs of girls’s worldwide cricket
She was ultimately bowled by England fast Lauren Filer (2-86) as Australia had been all out for 440 with a first-innings lead of 270.
Tahlia McGrath (12) and Kim Garth (0) gifted their wickets after Australia resumed on 422-5 – McGrath spooning Ecclestone (5-143) to mid-on and McGrath edging a supply from Filer.
Ecclestone – who eliminated McGrath for the seventh time in internationals – trapped King (3) lbw after which clinched her third five-wicket haul in Assessments, all towards Australia, by catching Ellyse Perry (2) off her personal bowling because the batter aimed to work into the leg-side.
Perry slid down the order to No 10 after struggling a hip harm within the discipline whereas Australia rolled England for 170 on day one.
England opener Maia Bouchier’s rotten run within the multi-format sequence then continued as she was bowled by means of the gate for one by Darcie Brown’s fast nip-backer.
Bouchier scored simply 46 runs throughout seven innings with a better of 17 within the second ODI, a knock that was adopted by successive geese within the ODI finale and first T20 worldwide.
Knight and Beaumont went on to share a stand of 73 for England’s second wicket, with Knight getting off the mark courtesy of a stunning cover-driven 4 off Garth.
However as soon as spin got here on, the match resulted in a rush as Australia underlined their standing as the perfect girls’s staff on the planet, sealing the sweep and placing England out of their distress.
