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Ladies’s Ashes: England pay for sloppiness as Australia retain trophy
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Ladies’s Ashes: England pay for sloppiness as Australia retain trophy

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By Tycoon Herald 8 Min Read Published January 20, 2025
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Earlier than we start any form of Ashes assault on England, it’s price accepting simply how good Australia are.

After sweeping their opponents within the Ladies’s Ashes ODIs, the Southern Stars secured victory within the opening T20 – and with it an Ashes retention – with out captain Alyssa Healy and star all-rounder Ash Gardner, attributable to foot and calf accidents respectively.

These high-profile absences didn’t unduly have an effect on Australia with Healy’s alternative on the high of the order, debutant Georgia Voll, and Gardner’s within the center, Grace Harris, every chipping in with the bat in a 57-run win for the dominant hosts in Sydney.

Australia’s batting line-up is deeper than a skinflint’s pockets they usually have extra individuals adept at spin than a political get together. Put merely, they’re higher than England.

Ladies’s Ashes: England pay for sloppiness as Australia retain trophy
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Australia’s Alana King and Beth Mooney have a good time retaining the Ladies’s Ashes

Whereas the hole appeared to shut as England fought again from 6-0 down for a creditable 8-8 draw on residence soil in 2023, the distinction between the perimeters now could be chasmic.

The vacationers are 8-0 down after 4 video games and though one other 8-8 stalemate remains to be inside their grasp – in the event that they win the ultimate two T20s and sole Take a look at match – a scarring defeat, such because the 12-4 reverses in 2019 and 2022, is feasible and maybe possible.

Sloppiness prices England as Australia retain Ashes

What is going to frustrate England is for a way robust Australia proceed to be – this can be a facet that that has not misplaced an Ashes since 2014 and received six of the 9 T20 World Cups and 7 of the 12 ODI variations – the perilous place they discover themselves in is in partly their very own fault. Right down to the personal sloppiness. Their very own poor choices.

England's Sophie Dunkley, Women's Ashes, T20 cricket (Associated Press)
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England’s Sophie Dunkley trudges off after being dismissed in Sydney

Take Monday’s T20 opener as the newest instance. Two Freya Kemp wides within the first over helped Australia rack up 11. Lauren Bell was then wayward in a second over during which Sophia Dunkley let a ball by way of her legs and allowed the hosts to steal a single.

Bell went on to drop Voll at quick superb leg within the third, wicketkeeper Amy Jones grassed Beth Mooney – who made 75 – on 16 within the seventh. Nat Sciver-Brunt and Charlie Dean left a catch for one another within the eighth with Mooney on 23.

All that, coupled with Australia’s class – Phoebe Litchfield’s change hit for six off Sarah Glenn was a factor of dazzling magnificence – meant the hosts raced to 90-1 at midway.

It was a dominant place Australia wouldn’t squander, regardless of Dunkley’s boundary-laden 59 from 30 balls in England’s run chase threatening a heist at one stage. Ultimately, the margin of victory was good-looking. A thrashing, in reality.

England wanted a win (or some rain) to maintain the Ashes alive however neither materialised, as Heather Knight’s group got here up quick in crunch sport once more, one thing that’s changing into a worrying pattern.

Amy Jones, England, Women's Ashes (Getty Images)
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England are enjoying a strong Australia but additionally have their very own sloppiness guilty for tumbling 8-0 down

England discovered wanting in huge video games once more

Already on this multi-format sequence, they’ve wasted the prospect to win the second ODI attributable to enjoying out too many dot balls, injudicious shot choice and an ill-judged non-single from Jones that uncovered No 11 Bell to the lethal correct Megan Schutt.

That adopted on from a glut of soppy dismissals and fielding blemishes within the opening ODI, which England misplaced by 4 wickets.

ASH GARNDER
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Australia’s Ash Gardner took an excellent boundary catch to take away Sophie Ecclestone within the third ODI in Hobart

Australia displayed uncommon indicators of frailty in each video games however the vacationers couldn’t pounce they usually had been then blown away within the third as Ash Gardner adopted a century with a elegant boundary catch in a surprising fielding show from the house group.

Australia know the best way to win when it issues and England do not.

We now have seen that within the final two T20 World Cups with Knight’s facet folding within the 2023 semi-final in opposition to South Africa after which wilting in opposition to West Indies in 2024 whereas Knight was off the sector nursing a calf pressure as they had been dumped out within the group stage.

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Highlights from Dubai as England were eliminated from the Women's T20 World Cup after falling to a six-wicket loss at the hands of West Indies.

Highlights from England’s harrowing defeat to West Indies as they exited final 12 months’s T20 World Cup within the group stage

Strain on Knight and Lewis?

Now one other shot at profitable the Ashes has slipped by and can absolutely result in questions in regards to the futures of Knight and coach Jon Lewis.

England are trophyless in huge tournaments because the 50-over World Cup in 2017 and Lewis’ Jonball method – a give attention to aggression that he realized from working with Brendon McCullum and Ben Stokes within the early knockings of Bazball – has introduced entertaining cricket however no silverware, which is what he was appointed to ship.

England head coach Jon Lewis during a nets session at The Cloud County Ground, Chelmsford. Picture date: Tuesday May 28, 2024.
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Is England head coach Jon Lewis beneath stress after the Ashes struggles?

Knight has been captain since 2016 so might really feel time is correct handy over the reins and give attention to batting, but with no apparent successor – her costs crumbling in opposition to West Indies confirmed an absence of management from elsewhere – and the carrot of a T20 World Cup on residence turf in 2026, she could possibly be tempted to hold on.

She has the backing of her gamers – Dunkley, if somewhat predictably, says the group are “100 per cent” behind Knight – however one thing might have to vary for England to interrupt out of this big-game trough, whether or not that’s captain, coach or enjoying personnel.

Australia could also be too robust however England must be stronger.

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