England Women beat Australia Women by 22 runs in NatWest Women’s T20 Quadrangular Series – Match Recap
England Women defeated Australia Women by 22 runs at County Ground, Bristol, on June 25, 2011, in a game of NatWest Women’s T20 Quadrangular Series. After winning today’s game, England has 4 points while Australia still has zero point in the series.
Winning the toss, Australia Women elected to field first. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Laura-Alexandra-Marsh-c72238 opened the innings of England Women. The start was marvellous as both the batters displayed very composed and calculated batting performances.
However, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Erin-Alyse-Osborne-c56181 while she was batting at 28. She played 23 deliveries and hit 4 sterling boundaries to forge an opening partnership of 59.
Edwards was joined by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Taylor-c92915 could not stay on the wicket for long and fell for just 3 off 3 balls.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Lydia-Sophie-Greenway-c73339 was the fourth batter of the English side to come on strike.
Edwards continued with her fireworks till the 14th over of the innings. When she was just 7 runs away from her 50 and tried to hit a boundary off Osborne, she was caught by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Alexandra-Joy-Blackwell-c43285. Edwards hit 2 fours off 43 deliveries, creating a strong base for
her side.
Edwards was succeeded by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sarah-Jane-Taylor-c88769 and she started advancing the innings brilliantly.
Greenway was the fourth wicket of England to fall. She got run-out for 18 off 17 balls. She lashed a boundary as well.
Sarah gave a rather tough time to the Australian bowlers in the death overs of the innings. She lasted till the final over and scored 25. Her batting partner, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Arran-Brindle-c45514 made 15 not out.
Sarah’s successor, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jennifer-Louise-Gunn-c66846 scored just two runs before getting caught on the last ball of the innings.
Thus http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 Women to chase down.
Australia started their innings in a lackluster way. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Leah-Joy-Poulton-c72374 could score only 29 for the first wicket partnership.
Nitschke was the first wicket to fall for 10. She was followed by Poulton who was caught by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sarah-c88757 in the 7th over. She played 16 balls and made 18.
After the early collapse of the opening order, the Australian batters came under pressure and the English bowlers gained confidence.
However, the one-down batswoman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Meg-Lanning-c75532, stabilised the innings by compiling 33 runs off 29 deliveries with the help of 2 fours.
Lanning could steer her side to victory but no other batswoman of Australia helped her out. Alex Blackwell, Jess Cameron and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Lisa-Carprini-Sthalekar-c73004 fell for 1, 13 and 14 respectively during Lanning’s stay on the wicket.
Thus Australia had lost 5 key wickets for just 89. The second half of their batting line-up proved to be http://www.senore.com/Cricket/A-Wall-c41352 of sand before the destructive bowling attack of England.
The entire team of Australia Women was washed out for just 114 runs in 18.1 overs.
With their fabulous performances in both batting and bowling departments, England women won the game.
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