Women’s Ashes 2022 2nd ODI: Australia vs England – LIVE! , Play

Thanks Geoff! Well, it was a wet salad of performances by England in their final innings of the tour. There’s not much to add to Geoff’s set of enigmatic numbers—but my sleep-deprived eye can still admire the leafy grandeur of Junction Oval. Just going to fill up my hot water bottle – back in five.

“A refreshing take on how time and circumstance work,” Damien writes. “I’ve often argued about the outcome in sports about how one thing replaces everything else. Or something. Everyone else usually tells me to shut up, calm down, and have another beer.” But it’s important, no?”

This is important when people make wrong decisions about mistakes. Suppose the team lost by one run in the 50th over and someone was called to short a run in the 29th over. The reaction would be that the short run cost the match. But if that run had been scored, what happened after that would have been a little different. The goal would have been something else. Players may have looked at the last few overs differently. They all.

If you miss a goal in the 40th minute, you are the villain when you finish 0-0. But maybe if you had scored that goal then the other team would have scored three times after that. nobody knows.

How poor is England’s performance, at least for now having competed in other matches. Their bowlers would be left a thankless job for trying to do something with it. And yeah yeah, don’t judge till both teams, blah blah. But it was one such batting performance that broke everyone’s confidence.

The Australians were ruthless, they kept bowling in the right places and gave very little. They were good enough to keep that pressure up and let England do the rest.

Wrap your head around these numbers. A run rate in a complete ODI innings of 2.85 in the year 2022.

Alana King, 10 overs, 1 wicket for 23 runs.
Ellyse Perry, 7 overs, 3 for 12.
Tahlia McGrath, 3.2 overs, 3 for 4
Jess Jonassen, 9 overs, 25 for 2 wickets.
Megan Schutt, 7 overs, 0 for 20.

Annabel Sutherland is the only one with seemingly normal figures, 1 for 44 in 9 overs. Ash Gardner did not bowl. Not required.

44.2 overs: England 129-10 (Ecclestone 32) McGrath took 3 for 4 in his fourth over and England were completely eliminated.

That’s a ballgame. There is little waffle outside Shrubsole, the edge dying as he reaches Healy but he crosses and lowers and lifts her up.

44th over: England 128-9 (Ecclestone 31, Shrubsole 7) Ecclestone has finally seen enough of Jonassen to take the plunge. moves forward, pitches, and uses his long reach to lift it straight up for six. Great timing. He top-scored with that shot as well.

43rd over: England 119-9 (Ecclestone 23, Shrubsole 6) Look, McGrath has won two singles. It is now three runs in three overs.

42nd over: England 117-9 (Ecclestone 22, Shrubsole 5) Seeing the last over, McGrath denied England leg-side, bowled outside off-stump and missed Shrubsole repeatedly. Now two overs, two wickets, one run in the name of McGrath.

41st over: England 117-9 (Ecclestone 22, Shrubsole 5) Two fours for England against Current. Both landed down the leg side of Sutherland. Shrubsole gets a slight edge on one, Ecclestone pulls the other.

40th over: England 107-9 (Ecclestone 17) I should clarify that the way timing works, if one of the earlier reviews hadn’t been taken, there wouldn’t have been an accurate delivery outing the cross. But another opportunity to use the review in a useful way could come instead. you get the idea.

Two wickets for one run in McGrath’s over.

This is purely for burning reviews. The cross is hit on the leg, fired by the umpire, but I think it would have been going down the leg side on replays. England used their reviews on top-order players who looked too out-of-touch, and now crosses have been denied the opportunity to swing a few boundaries away and raise their total.

well well Well. We didn’t see Tahlia McGrath all day. She bowls the ball at the end… and takes a wicket in three balls. Just over the wicket, fired over the stumps, Jones misses a leg-side flick, and is out.

39th over: England 106-7 (Jones 28, Ecclestone 16) Sutherland moves forward, hitting three singles. Ecclestone tries to pull a short ball but misses.

38th over: England 103-7 (Jones 27, Ecclestone 14) Nice shot from Ecclestone! Comes down and sweeps Jonassen firmly into the back of square, defeating two outfielders on four. He made the biggest partnership of a Test match for England and now he is part of the biggest partnership in this match. Not much competition, but still.

37th over: England 97-7 (Jones 26, Ecclestone 9) Sutherland back, and England finally began to turn the strike, four singles from it.

36th over: England 93-7 (Jones 24, Ecclestone 7) Jonassen returns, Jones almost spoons to mid-off, the batsman looking to go after a ball that wasn’t good enough, as Sciver did. He then goes out of strike, and Ecclestone makes the same mistake. He doesn’t even take it. Three more points, then the England spinner scored a run around the corner. They still haven’t reached 100. The run rate is 2.58.

35th over: England 91-7 (Jones 23, Ecclestone 6) On 4 off 26 balls, Ecclestone finally took a dip and took King to deep, but too far square of deep midwicket for Gardner to catch it. Two runs off Jones’ single, and that’s all for King: 1 for 23 in ten overs. Weird.

34th over: England 88-7 (Jones 22, Ecclestone 4) Chosen by Ecclestone, and survived! There is no slip for Schutt, and the keeper stands. So that the lead goes past Healy’s bicep, no chance of a catch. Standing behind was an ordinary person. Again King comes flying around from deep third to save four, he’s already good at least seven runs before it comes to your bowling today. Schutt then turns down the leg-before appeal, hitting Ecclestone around the off stump and perhaps swinging down, but could have collected the leg stump. No reviews.

33rd over: England 85-7 (Jones 21, Ecclestone 2) King bowled his ninth ball, rolling the ball to the outside edge, lots of flight, and Jones needed five balls to hit a run at long-on. King gave away 20 runs in nine overs.

32nd over: England 84-7 (Jones 20, Ecclestone 2) Lanning keeps ringing the change bells intermittently, bringing back Schutt for the spell. The same line starts from wide and runs to the stumps. Ecclestone can’t do anything with it. No race.

31st over: England 84-7 (Jones 20, Ecclestone 2) Another boundary for Jones, good timing to drive King off the leg side. Takes four more balls to find the single.

30th over: England 78-7 (Jones 15, Ecclestone 1) Perry to Jones, Jones has been dismissed several times before, and the England keeper is still very cautious. Finally a run. The drink breaks.

29th over: England 77-7 (Jones 14, Ecclestone 1) a limit? for England? Which black magic is this? Sutherland bowls short and Jones pulls it through square with a right. Drives a single to mid-on but Jones isn’t confident enough to take it. She then pulls to Sutherland and recovers, takes four more but King slides all the way and stops it, saving an outstanding two. Single goes the same way for Jones to place strike. Suddenly an over costs seven.

28th over: England 70-7 (Jones 7, Ecclestone 1) Perry keeps hitting a perfect line outside, and Ecclestone continues to fish over it. Somehow it doesn’t come out in the entire over. No race.

27th over: England 70-7 (Jones 7, Ecclestone 1) Jones obliques behind a point, Ecclestone slaps one in the air through cover. Sutherland 1 wicket for 20 runs from five.

26th over: England 68-7 (Jones 6, Ecclestone 0) A very sharp bouncer from Perry to Ecclestone, who backs out of the way of the line at the off-stump, stumbles.

Wickets just keep falling. As we saw in the Test match, Dean doesn’t look too cool with his cross-bat shots. She gets a slow bouncer from Perry, she’s sitting there waiting to hit him, and she tries a short munching pull shot to hit it right, but only off the leg side. Takes it to the keeper. Yes.

25th over: England 67-6 (Jones 5, Dean 0) Mel Jones notes on TV commentary, “Dean on one end, Jones on the other.” Bring Dino back.

Summer catch! What a captain’s effort! The spin was winning, she doubles the seam, and it produces a double wicket. Bruce Dickinson.

Wyatt pushes Sutherland, faces the bat toward mid-on, and it takes a thick almost leading edge that flies wide of slip. Back slip, surely? No, Lanning takes off, flies over, and takes one hand of the ball as it passes by, somehow holding onto it as it hits the turf. A real stunner.

24th over: England 66-5 (Jones 4, Wyatt 0) Last Chance Saloon As far as actual batting pairs go: Danny Wyatt joins Jones. However, they have got the Augean stables to clean them. And yes, that means England’s batting…

It seems a strange call for the spinners to bring back Perry after England were dismissed. But Meg Lanning is the Bruce Dickinson of this team today. Never question Bruce Dickinson. Fourth ball of the over, angling across a short width at delivery, smashes Dunkley to the pad in front of the middle. Gone, and England’s final review goes with it.

23rd over: England 64-4 (Jones 3, Dunkley 2) Sheesh is going to England 2.8 runs per over. This is an ugly thing. Yes, the Australian team is bowling well, but…

Another run from King, who has now bowled seven overs, 1 for 13.