Women’s Ashes: Australia v England one-off cricket Test, day one – as it happened
A joyous spell of legspin bowling from Alana King put Australia in control of the pink-ball Test at the MCG
Peter Warrington is first to let us know his thoughts on the Australia XI with concerns around how they might take 20 England wickets across the coming four days of play.
“Australia have stacked the batting, possibly because Mooney can’t open and keep. Possibly because a number are in pretty awful form – Litchfield, Perry, Sutherland, and Voll has a couple of 20s. Ash and Brown have had one good test each and Kingy has been on fire, but it’s not clear to me we have structured an attack to win – unless the plan is to use that batting depth to get 450 super fast?”
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