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England took on Australia in the first T20 match of the women’s ashes series this evening in Birmingham.

Australia won the toss and chose to field first meaning that they would have to better the score posted by England in there innings.

Alice Capsey followed Dani Wyatt back to the dressing room for a total of 3 runs and was replaced by Nat Sciver-Brunt in the powerplay.

At the end of the powerplay (first 6 overs) England had scored a total of 36 runs and lost 2 wickets.

Nat Sciver-Brunt was bowled out for a total of 7 runs and was replaced by England captain Heather Knight.

England continued to score well and had a total of 67 runs for the loss of 3 wickets at the half way mark of there inning’s (10th over).

England lost there 4th wicket in the second half of the innings but this was after we broke 100 runs.

Sophia Dunkley was England’s 5th wicket and was replaced by debutant Dani Gibson at crease.

Dani Gibson returned to the dressing room after scoring just a single run on her debut and was replaced by Sophie Ecclestone

Ecclestone returned to the dressing room without scoring a run and was replaced by Sarah Glen at the crease.

England managed to score a total of 86 runs from there remaining 60 balls of the innings which made it an exciting end to the innings.

England finished there innings well with a total of 153 runs for the lost 7 wickets leaving Australia needing a total of 154 runs to win the match.

Australia started there innings well with the bat and had scored a total of 45 runs and only lost a single wicket at the end of there powerplay (first 6 overs) of the innings.

Sarah Glen caught Australia’s first player out during the powerplay after quality bowling from Lauren Bell.

Amy Jones then stumped Australia’s Talia Mcgrath after some more quality bowling by England’s Sophie Ecclestone.

The Aussie’s had scored a total of 77 runs and only lost 2 wickets at the half way stage of there innings meaning that they needed a further 73 runs to win the match.

They started the second half of there innings incredibly well and managed to over power the lionesses very early on in this half.

England’s Amy Jones took our 3rd wicket of the innings after a great delivery from Sarah Glen.

That was quickly followed up by another wicket from Glen’s next delivery.

Lauren Bell then bowled out Australia’s Elise Perry for just 7 runs to take our 5th wicket of Australia’s innings.

Amy Jones then took our 6th wicket of the innings off the bowling of Sophie Ecclestone.

Australia finished there innings with a total of 154 runs and only lost 6 wickets and this meant that they won the first T20 match of the series by just 4 wickets.

I absolutely loved being back in Birmingham at Edgbaston for another exciting international cricket match.

As always the atmosphere inside the stadium was electric for both innings which was incredible to witness.

There were 19,527 people in attendance at Edgbaston for this match which was awesome.

I know that this is another very short blog but I wanted to reflect on international women’s cricket being back at Edgbaston for the first time since the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

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Cam