Australia Women vs England Women Match Stats

Short of a good length, on the stumps, Amy Jones quickly goes deep inside the crease and pulls it along the ground to deep mid-wicket. Ellyse Perry scoots to her right and puts in a dive to intercept the ball. However, her feet get very close to the ropes while tumbling over, but she just about manages to keep them inside the field of play. That was hit too hard and Ellyse Perry does extremely well and saves a certain boundary. Two taken!

Jones now slog sweeps this full ball to deep mid-wicket, but doesn't run.

Full and drifting across, Jones tries to sweep but she only manage a bottom edge onto the pads. 

JUST IN! Just around off, on a fuller length, Amy Jones drags this through square leg and calls for two instantly. However, Lauren Bell is a bit slow to scamper back for the second and reach at the bowler's end. Sensing this, the fielder from the deep throws flat towards the bowler's end where Gardner collects it on the bounce and takes off the bails. The side-on replay shows that Bell had made her ground by just dragging the bat into the crease. Two runs taken!

Tossed up, on middle, Amy Jones charges down the track and whips it to long on but does not take the run.

Manages to keep it to a dot! Fires it in, very full and outside off, Amy Jones miscues her shot, straight back at the bowler. Lauren Bell will face the start of the next over. England Women need 30 more runs off 36 balls.

Lands it full and on middle, Lauren Bell blocks it forward.

At the stumps from Schutt, on a fuller length, Lauren Bell does well again to push it back to the bowler.

Dot again! Pitches it well outside off on a length, Lauren Bell tries to slash away to the off side but misses.

Nicely played! Just around off on a fuller length, Lauren Bell opens the bat face and guides off the thick outside edge to deep third for a single.

In the gap but doesn't take the single off the penultimate ball! Length ball, outside off, Amy Jones backs away and cuts it hard to deep point. Can she rotate the strike in the next ball to retain it for the next over?

No, she cannot! Well bowled, very well bowled by Schutt! She bowls it according to the field and angles on the pads, Amy Jones can only nudge it with soft hands to short fine. Lauren Bell will take the strike in the next over!

Play and a miss! Length ball, skidding through quickly outside off, Bell goes back and across to punch to the off side but misses.

HUGE SWING AND A MISS! Fired in full and outside off, Bell takes her front foot out and swings but misses on the outside edge.

She does well! Full and outside off, kept out safely.

Full and just outside off, Bell gets forward to defend and gets an outside edge rolling to short third. No run.

Nice and full, darted outside off, Lauren Bell leans on a defends it out.

An arm ball, fired on the pads on a length. Lauren Bell missed to glance and got pinged on the thigh pad. England Women need 29 more runs off 24 balls while Australia Women need just 1 wicket.

IN THE AIR...land safe! Runs a single on the first ball! Outside off on a fuller length, Amy Jones creates some room for herself and slices it over backward point for a quick single. Good work by Alana King as she motors to her left and keeps it to just a single.

NERVY! Just around off, nipping away from a fuller length, Lauren Bell pushes hard at it and misses on the outside edge.

Well blocked by Bell! An attempted yorker on the stumps, Lauren Bell bends low and digs it out safely.

Almost an action-replay of the previous delivery! Megan Schutt fires in a yorker on the stumps, tailing a bit in as well. Lauren Bell again bends low and gets her bat down in time to block it out.

On a length, with an extra bit of bounce, outside off, Lauren Bell is taken aback by the bounce, hangs her bat away from the body and just fends it in front of backward point.

Well played by Bell! Straight and full, on middle, Lauren Bell prods forward and presents a solid front foot defence. A single run from this over. More importantly, Amy Jones will take the strike in the next over. 

Seeing Amy Jones covering her stumps, Annabel Sutherland cannons in a yorker on the legs, Amy Jones flicks it to the leg side but doesn't run.

A cracking shot down the ground, but a dot in the end! A full one, on the stumps, on middle and leg, Jones clears her front foot and drills it down to long on.

PUT DOWN! An incredibly difficult chance, but it nearly stuck in her hands! A full ball again on off, Amy Jones smashes it hard and straight back to the bowler. Annabel Sutherland bends low on her follow-through and tries to take the catch by stretching both her hands over her head. The ball hits and pops out of the palms and lobs near the strip.

PLAY AND A MISS! Fired full and outside off, Jones swings and misses on the outside edge.

FIVE NO BALL! Can it get more dramatic than this? A huge error from Sutherland and Jones pounces on it! A waist height NO BALL on the pads, Amy Jones shuffles across and uses the ball's pace and hits it over the short fine fielder for a boundary. FREE HIT COMING UP! The field cannot be changed for this!

Sutherland follows the batter as Jones shuffles way outside off and digs it short into the surface. Jones goes for a heavy across and hits it to deep square leg but doesn't take the run.

DRAMA! Sutherland fires it over the waist height again and on the body, Amy Jones is deep inside the crease, but walks a few steps ahead and nudges it off the inside half of the bat to deep backward square leg. Lauren Bell is already more than halfway through but Jones sends her back. Bell turns around and scoots to get back to the bowler's end. Does well to reach home. Annabel Sutherland and Alyssa Healy are visibly not happy with the decision by the on-field umpire! And now, the umpire requests Sutherland to go out of attack for bowling two waist-height No Balls in an over. A NO BALL CALLED AND FREE HIT COMING UP...

IN THE AIR...DROPPED! Surprisingly, Jones doesn't run off the Free Hit! This is banged in short by McGrath, Jones pulls it aerially to deep square leg where it's dropped by Alana King. It wouldn't have counted even if she had pouched it. But more importantly, Jones doesn't rotate the strike and exposes Bell to face the next over. Everyone was concentrating on the catch and maybe, Jones felt, the game was done, totally forgetting the Free Hit. Hence she did not run.

OUT! KNOCKED HER OVER! AUSTRALIA WOMEN COME FROM THE BRINK OF DEFEAT AND WIN A THRILLER! Couldn't be a more perfect ball to a tailender, and this one had Bell's name on it! Megan Schutt steams in full tilt and spears in a pinpoint yorker, right at the base of the middle stump. Lauren Bell is late to bring her bat down in time and the ball beats the bat to crash into the stumps!