Women’s Ashes 2025 LIVE: Australia v England 2nd ODI

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There are some major questions ahead of this second ODI and let’s start with Australia first.

Ash Gardner revealed that she had been dealing with a pesky tennis elbow recently in the post match presser, not that it stopped her from taking three wickets and 42 runs with the bat.

Can the all-rounder back up her heroics? There is no reason why not. Her captain Alyssa Healy was also nursing a knee injury, not that it stopped her throwing herself around behind the wickets and then scoring an outstanding 70 runs.

Ellyse Perry will be disappointed with her 14 runs on her home deck at North Sydney and will be looking to turn things around in Melbourne. Similarly, opener Phoebe Litchfield will want to start afresh after her four runs in the first ODI.

Now onto England, there are possibly more questions than is allowed within this humble blog, but firstly, can they do better with the bat and set a total of just 204 runs?

North Sydney’s wicket was proving a delight for bowlers with lots of turn, but the English batting lineup can still do far better, and all-rounder Nat Sciver-Brunt, so often their inspiration will want to lift for Melbourne.

Similarly their openers of Tammy Beaumont and Maia Bouchier managed 13 and 9 runs respectively, and left their captain Heather Knight with a major hole to dig out of and she valiantly tried with 39 runs, but this cannot happen again.

There were also dropped catches in the field, notably from the world’s best bowler Sophie Ecclestone who somehow lost control of the ball allowing Gardner to stay in and guide Australia home. As everyone’s grade cricket coach told them as a youngster, certainly mine did on the rainy ovals of Ireland, catches win matches and England will know that only too well.

Alyssa Healy looks dejected after being dismissed for 70 runsCredit: Getty Images

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