Women's Ashes Test: England v Australia – the fourth day live! | sport

62nd match: Australia 215-5 (Molineux 35, Perry 74) I like the way Knight keels herself, showing leadership. And I guess they should be about to shake hands? A victory is a victory and a victory, but this urn will be better badured with a groan than a blow. That said, it's a great team and the win is deserved.

61st out of: Australia 207-5 (Molineux 28, Perry 73) Well, it was a beautiful picture! Molineux cuts Gordon to four. Ten out of ten for the crunch.

60th on: Australia 200-5 (Molineux 23, Perry 71) Hum Not much to say, really. Knight bowling. An out of it.

59th on: Australia 199-5 (Molineux 23, Perry 70) A Gordon couple as the sun begins to set over this match. Perry must squirm if she wants this century.

58th on: Australia 197-5 (Molineux 22, Perry 69)

A little wisdom from Tat Wood in my mailbox:

It seems to me that the seemingly strange decisions of the two captains are guided by the simple fact that everyone only has that chance to be a test cricketer. So, I do not think they'll fly before they have to.

Perry has a chance for a significant first – a third century of successive testing.
I'm old enough to remember that Mike Deness was the captain and jokes about Rachael Heyhoe's replacement ("at least she wins on occasion").

The women's game now enjoys a certain degree of support (mainly because the ECB seems intent on making the men's game unappealing to children), but if the reduced number of players in testing and available slots makes things like today, the company will remain entire marginal.

The big winner here was Taunton. If the timing was logical, the regional courts would take advantage of women's cricket to stay afloat.

57th on: Australia 195-5 (Molineux 21, Perry 68) Molineux decides to make hay. She sends a Gordon over the border for four minutes. And an even better shot after the ball, through the covers and trying near the rope, but Elwiss finds the energy to stop it. Super set up.

Tuvic has a play on words to share:

Ellyse has surely seen another century of ashes in her vision of Perry-Pheral here …

56th on: Australia 188-5 (Molineux 15, Perry 67) Knight does a job for his team here – ah, until the full throw Molineux sends with a crack at the border.

54th on: Australia 180-5 (Molineux 9, Perry 66) Only one among Knight's over like Molineux and Perry is definitely boring. Shred them girls, crush them!

53rd on: Australia 179-5 (Molineux 9, Perry 65) BLA bla. A girl from Gordon.

A tweet has arrived from Africa. I like modern communication! – Although I really think that my children miss something by never having to write on a very thin blue paper in spider shape, scribble their deepest thoughts before posting it in the airmail post bag .

52nd on: Australia 179-5 (Molineux 9, Perry 65) Fran Wilson's tired legs fail to lift her high enough to take Molineux by car. She is the under-servant of Sarah Taylor, still wounded in the shoulder.

51st on: Australia 178-5 (Molineux 8, Perry 65) If this game does not really lead to anything, maybe the teams will shake hands sooner? Captains can consult in half an hour. Four on Shrubsole's over, an easy flight to the third man and beyond by Molineux.

50th on: Australia 172-5 (Molineux 4, Perry 65) What a failure on the part of the skipper: a leg bye, a wicket with a low roller and a full throw disappearing for four.

And from nowhere! Knight launches and pbades through Jonbaden with his third ball.

49th on: Australia 166-4 (Jonbaden 26, Perry 64) A single extract of Shrubsole's over. Congratulations to her for her efforts so late in the day.

An email from Pauline or Bruce. I am not sure. Anyway:

This proves that it should be a 5 day test.
The attitude, skills and performances of both teams were worthy of a five-day competition.
I do not understand how the sandpapergate slipped into the comment.
He rubs people in the wrong way. They never forget.

Maybe it's going against the grain. (Sorry) TBH, I'm above. If, as a crowd, we forgive Ben Stokes for fighting a fierce battle, we should forgive for cheating.

48th on: Australia 165-4 (Jonbaden 26, Perry 64) Jonbaden is a powerful Elswiss player. Another limit follows. Not a lot of pressure. Not much. Australia in the lead by 310 – go, give us a little gift for the last hour …

47th on: Australia 156-4 (Jonbaden 26, Perry 64) A crackling Shrubsole ball finds the edge of Perry's bat and Taylor can not put his paws on it. He grumbles for four others. I'm not sure that's why, but Taylor runs away at the end of the match and Jones puts on the gloves.

45th on: Australia 146-4 (Jonbaden 19, Perry 60) Perry battles the non-attacker. And then, a real shot, pushing forward and blocking Shrubsole with a magnificent defense. Maybe a moment for the purists.

Sarah Bacon hits her keyboard with fury.

What is …? !!! We are still batting! Ellyse Perry, famous for being a girl who has to be dragged and screamed after practicing baton training in nets, does not do favors to her – or to Australia – here. And while eliminating England before the end of the match is not guaranteed, a shot is surely justified, is not it? * Grinds teeth *

Your … frustration,

44th on: Australia 145-4 (Jonbaden 19, Perry 60) Elwiss dibble-dobbles on the location of the tiddlewinks.

OB Jato dropped a line:

I would not have wanted five days of this pleasure! However, there is no point crying over spilled milk or spoiled hours … At least Perry has crossed the 50-year mark in his test career, again! We hope Australia will declare as soon as possible, but we all know it will be a draw. It was a spectacular contest without a final winner – most cricket tests were set for you!

Thanks OB. I do not know if I would go as far as spectacular. More hard-fought? Determined? For me, the captains have "settled" a little too much for it to be spectacular. Thoughts?

43rd on: Australia 144-4 (Jonbaden 18, Perry 60) A better on of Shrubsole. The last ball jumps out of nowhere and hits Taylor behind the stumps – which turns around with the impact. It's hit somewhere near the left shoulder and it seems to be in a lot of pain – but it wriggles the fingers to the physio's satisfaction and everything seems fine.

Katherine Brunt did not go out after tea with a painful shoulder after diving undercover in the field.

42nd above: Australia 142-4 (Jonbaden 18, Perry 59) Elwiss book five points and a full draw that is treated with a high distain and a big Jonbaden heave through an extra blanket and over the rope.

41st on: Australia 138-4 (Jonbaden 14, Perry 59) So, no statement and there are only 41 overs of this test. Will they declare? When will they declare? A big thumbs up to England who always looks very spruce and has a great friendly group before the start.

Finally, Shrubsole gets his mittens on the ball. The first delivery is short and wide and Perry the cut for four. The backhand improves as Perry plays and misses, then treats the remaining balls with respect.

Romeo writes:

Tanya in the afternoon

I am really disappointed that Australia does not want to play properly.
of that. There are people who look down, more than there are
been on wet days, and they could just declare now and say, "Have a
go & # 39 ;. It's a shame they do not do it.

For the pleasure of the game and the reputation of women's cricket, I would like to see them declare. But I can see why Lanning does not have. She does not have to, she wins the Ashes with a draw, and the book Baggy Green will not please the crowd, even after the first leg.

We got there – the last session of the 2019 ash test and Australia … bat.

40th on: Australia 134-4 (Jonbaden 14, Perry 55) Knight returns to his winning hand – Laura Marsh, in what will probably be the last before tea break. Only one of them – but to be honest, the ball is now in the Australian camp. England looks and waits. And bowl.

And that's tea. Players get lost. Australia leads by 279 and there are at least 44 more players left in the day. A statement would leave England looking for 280 out of 41, a rate of more than six.

Something to ponder over a cup of tea and everything in the pantry.

39th on: Australia 133-4 (Jonbaden 14, Perry 54) Twice we see the Australian balcony where arms are crossed, in pockets or hidden.

38th on: Australia 131-4 (Jonbaden 13, Perry 53) We have been slow to wait until the referees replay a final call, which is a clever job of the Ecclestone-Taylor combo, but Perry is just at home. Then a slightly shorter ball from Brunt, and Perry leans back and sends a missive back for fifty others! Thus, in his last two trials … a double century, a century and fifty unbeaten. Pretty young girl.

Abhijato has a suggestion: "Give them 280 to chase an extra 40 players, in Australia … This could give one of the best results in Test history, regardless of gender, after all!

You never know, because Perry is now fifty and it's almost tea. What will Lanning do during the break?

37th on: Australia 125-4 (Jonbaden 13, Perry 47) After a third goal, Jonbaden sends Ecclestone for a border.

If Australia were to declare itself now, England should pursue six by one.

And hooray! An email arrives with pomp in my inbox.

Hello Tanya!

Hello Avitaj!

Steve Waugh would probably have said in this situation, huh?
Australia must surely support its bowlers on this ground .. (Okay, I admit that I just want to finish the last hour).

Oooh I do not know. Would he have applied enough mental disintegration?

36th on: Australia 120-4 (Jonbaden 9, Perry 46) Brunt runs a fraction wide and Jonbaden pbades through the covers, with a knee in the lower back, which slides along the grbad and on the boundary. Then again, a little less nicely, one edge in the ravine for four others.

35th on: Australia 112-4 (Jonbaden 1, Perry 46) Sophie Ecclestone is like a sleeveless sweater. The sky of Taunton is less blue blue than the cloudy ink. Short sleeves for drummers, sunglbades for referees. Jonbaden is close to the goal. Ah, now we have Katherine Brunt.

34th on: Australia 110-4 (Jonbaden 0, Perry 45) Elwiss crackles between the balls, tick, tick, tick. Perry shoots his first ball for four, just another single among the finals, the minutes, the over and the day.

33rd on: Australia 105-4 (Jonnasen 0, Perry 40) Whenever you see this problem, it seems a little better. A howler! It was very hard too. Beaumont and Ecclestone are totally delighted.

A superb shot of Tammy Beaumont on the short leg, while Mooney is going to have a huge slog, she gathers it in the folds of her sweater at the height of the belly. And England fired the manager!

32nd on: Australia 103-3 (Mooney 23, Perry 40) Just a couple of this Elwiss on.

This is very true:

31st on: Australia 100-3 (Mooney 23, Perry 37) Nice picture taken by Mooney on Ecclestone – a delightful walk for four people through the covers. Add one good-bye leg and one and there are six on the top. Perry is definitely fighting, jogging bluntly in a place where she normally feels comfortable – which of course will also fall prey to Meg Lanning's mind. A non-bowling Perry confuses the equation.

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30th on: Australia 94-3 (Mooney 18, Perry 37) Marsh finally rests when Knight turns to Elwiss and whispers instructions to him in the ear. Elwiss stands out and Australia has only one goal. We see Perry and the Australian coach leaning on a pad of paper …..

29th on: Australia 93-3 (Mooney 18, Perry 36) A Mooney clbad shot goes past the field players, across the covers and over the limit. A little less clbady, ​​a little more bades thereafter, up to four by the midwicket.

I'm just looking at a SKY badysis that shows Perry struggling with his back leg. As she approaches to quell the movement, she struggles to get up.

28th on: Australia 82-3 (Mooney 7, Perry 36) I like to watch Marsh Bowl, she walks on tiptoe, long arms elegant, almost ballistic. Mooney strikes three of her. And we continue in this period of non-arm's length fencing.

In the spirit of Lanning?

27th on: Australia 80-3 (Mooney 5, Perry 36) Gordon throws the ball well and Perry seems to be content to play it. Mooney has a lousy blow to the penultimate bullet – she must be responsible for the application of both.

26th on: Australia 78-3 (Mooney 4, Perry 35) Yum, yum, says Bel Mooney while Laura Marsh floats in her direction. Bang, she gets on one knee and pushes her to the edge of the midwicket. She is certainly happy to get things done a little bit. A session and a half to go … if Australia wants to win, she will have to withdraw the declaration from the horizon. Australians are now leading to 223.

25th on: Australia 73-3 (Mooney 0, Perry 34) Gordon has a spring in his step now. Some superb Brunt cover-ups prevent a Mooney limit. Then she casts an accusing glance on her elbow when you really feel bad and you hope the blood is flowing and you feel sympathy, but you only get a slight blush. And it drinks!

24th on: Australia 72-3 (Mooney 0, Perry 32) Two Wicket Marsh continues – his tenth of the day. A Perryish reader through the covers is the scoring shot of the end.

By the way, I've just returned from Old Trafford, where a T20 game is about to begin. The place is rammed, waiting lines go into the land, children, moms, jobs. The fantasy of the ECB writes big.

23rd on: Australia 67-3 (Mooney 0, Perry 28) What a window! What a delivery of pancakes! Yet, they all count – and Gordon strikes in the first. Lanning leans forward, the front leg is unbalanced, and then pbades through the back for four minutes before the breakthrough. Gently, gently, the cat monkey.