Women’s Ashes 2025: Australia win series outright after rain-affected T20 in Canberra

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Women’s Ashes 2025: Australia win series outright after rain-affected T20 in Canberra

England remain winless in the Women’s Ashes as Australia won a dramatic rain-affected encounter by six runs in the second T20 to complete an outright series victory.

Set a challenging 186 to win in Canberra, England needed 18 from the last five ****** with Heather Knight unbeaten on 43 before heavy rain fell and no further play was possible.

England finished on 168-4, an agonising six runs short of the required score set by the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) method.

The result sees Australia take a 12-0 lead in the points-based multi-format series, which ends England’s hopes of a draw.

Rain had also disrupted the tourists’ chase after 8.4 overs, with England two runs ahead of DLS at 69-1, but it eased enough for play to resume with no overs lost.

Knight’s brilliant partnership of 65 in 6.5 overs with Nat Sciver-Brunt kept England in contention throughout before the final result was taken out of their hands and the captain walked off visibly upset.

Opener Danni Wyatt-Hodge’s 52 from 40 ****** at the top of the order kick-started England’s brave effort, supported by Sophia Dunkley’s 32, but ultimately they were left to rue a sloppy final three overs of their bowling innings which conceded 48 runs.

They were in the game when the hosts stuttered to 137-5 after 17 overs, only for Tahlia McGrath and Grace Harris to bludgeon their way to 185-5.

McGrath, standing in for captain Alyssa Healy because of a foot injury, smashed an unbeaten 48 from 35 ****** and Harris launched three sixes in her 17-ball 35.

Off-spinner Charlie Dean was the pick of the bowlers with 2-28 but she dropped McGrath on 42 on another poor night for England’s catching statistics, with Lauren Bell and Freya Kemp also putting down chances off Georgia Voll and Annabel Sutherland – they were not particularly costly in terms of runs, but it remains a big concern for Knight’s side going forward.

The third and final T20 takes place in Adelaide on Saturday, followed by the one-off Test match in Melbourne on 30 January.

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