AUS-W vs ENG-W 1st ODI: Australia Starts Women’s Ashes with a Win

AUS-W vs ENG-W 1st ODI: The Women’s Ashes series has started. Today on 12 January, the first match of the three-match ODI series was played at North Sydney Oval ground, Sydney. Let us tell you that in this match, Australia won by 4 wickets due to the all-round play of Alyssa Healy and Ashley Gardner.

Australia Starts ODI Series with a 4-Wicket Win

In the match, Australia first bowled brilliantly and stopped England at just 204 runs, while after that Australia achieved this target by losing 6 wickets due to brilliant batting. With this, Australia has started the series in a great way.

On the other hand, if we give you information about this match, then the Australia Women’s team won the toss and decided to bowl first. After this, batting first, England were all out for a total score of just 204 runs in 43.1 overs. Captain Heather Knight played the best innings of 39 runs for the team, while White Hodge scored 38 and Amy Jones scored 31 runs.

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If we talk about the bowling of the Australia women’s team, Ashleigh Gardner got the maximum of 3 wickets. Kim Garth, Annabel Sutherland and Alana King got 2-2 wickets. Apart from this, Darcy Brown got 1 wicket.

After this, when Australia came out to chase the target of 205 runs given by England, it easily achieved this target by losing 6 wickets in 38.5 overs. Alyssa Healy, who was returning to the team after a long time, played a captaincy innings of 70 runs, while Ashleigh Gardner remained unbeaten by scoring 42* and returned only after winning the match for the team.

On the other hand, if we talk about England’s bowling, Lauren Player and Sophie Asleton got 2-2 wickets each. So Lauren Bell and Charlotte Dean got 1-1 success.