Assn of Cricket StatisticiansMay 8
Just caught up with this BBC Radio 4 documentary on the women's Ashes of 2005, after a quick dash through the earlier history of women's cricket.
Main conversation features Claire Taylor, Holly Colvin, Rosalie Fairbairn and Laura Kelly MacLeod, assistant coach Neil Rider and journalist Alison Mitchell.
#WomensCricket #WomensAshes #CricketOnRadio
hypocaustFeb 2, 2025

Stats highlights and trivia from the third and final day of the Women's Ashes Test at the MCG, which began with Beth Mooney etching her name in the record books before Alana King and Ash Gardner spun Australia to a historic whitewash.

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https://emergencycricketblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/02/womens-ashes-test-day-03-by-the-numbers/

Women’s Ashes Test – day 03 by the numbers

Stats highlights and trivia from day three of the Women’s Ashes Test at the MCG.

Emergency Cricket Blog
rustyFeb 1, 2025

Whoa! Over on BBC Sport English fans are sticking knives into their women's #cricket team. Almost seems like part of the problem, being incensed because they were comprehensively beaten by a better team. And yet, hardly any of them even mention Australia in their comments. It's like a sense of entitlement that they should've been better.

Having watched the whole #WAshes series, I wouldn't say it's a skills/talent issue so much as an attitude problem (just like the men's team). Lots of fine skills on display, but did they think it would be a walk in the park? That they just had to tun up and that was enough?

#womensashes

Show threadhypocaustFeb 1, 2025

The 14 wickets taken by Alana King (9-98) and Ash Gardner (5-69) at the MCG were the most taken by Australian women's spinners in a Test since at least the 1950s (the number of bowlers with mixed styles makes it hard specify precisely how many fell to spin or pace in that era).

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Show threadhypocaustFeb 1, 2025

Alana King (9-98) is the second legspinner to take nine wickets in a Women's Ashes Test.

The other was Australia's Peggy Antonio (9-91) at Northampton in 1937.

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Show threadhypocaustFeb 1, 2025

Most runs scored in a multi-format Women's Ashes series:

409 Beth Mooney AUS in 2025
404 Nat Sciver-Brunt ENG in 2023
401 Ellyse Perry AUS in 2023
378 Ellyse Perry AUS in 2019
363 Beth Mooney AUS in 2023

Most wickets taken in a multi-format Women's Ashes series:

23 Ash Gardner AUS in 2023
23 Alana King AUS in 2025
20 Sophie Ecclestone ENG in 2023
18 Megan Schutt in 2017
16 Ellyse Perry in 2015

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Show threadhypocaustFeb 1, 2025

Alana King fittingly takes the wicket that seals the whitewash, and is mobbed by her team-mates.

Australia 440 beat England 170 &148 by an innings and 122 runs and complete a 16-0 points victory in the series.

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https://cricket.com.au/matches/CA:19861/australia-women-england-women-women-s-ashes-test

rustyFeb 1, 2025
Australian whitewash of England and Alana King gets her much-deserved 5-for  Congrats!!
#cricket #WAshes #WomensAShes
Show threadhypocaustFeb 1, 2025

Four in both innings for King, as MacDonald-Gay hits a full toss to Brown, and departs for 1 (23).

England have gone from 100/2 to 122/8 (53.0).

Australia two wickets away from the whitewash.

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https://cricket.com.au/matches/CA:19861/australia-women-england-women-women-s-ashes-test

Show threadhypocaustFeb 1, 2025

As the clock signals the end of the session, Jones is caught for 6 (20) by Mooney off Gardner, who has 3-28.

England 117/7 (46.0) trail by 153.

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https://cricket.com.au/matches/CA:19861/australia-women-england-women-women-s-ashes-test