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England took on Australia in what was said to be a defining match in the woman’s ashes series at the Ageas Bowl In Southampton today.

The ODI (One Day International) format of cricket consists of 50 overs and there were be 300 balls bowled in each teams innings.

England won the first ODI match of the three in the series by 2 wickets at the Seat Unique Stadium in Bristol on Wednesday, the 12th of July 2023.

England won the toss and chose to field first in Southampton meaning that we would have to chase Australia’s innings total to win the second ODI of the series.

Australia scored a total of 1 run for the loss of 0 wickets in the opening over of this second ODI in the series.

The Aussies had scored a total of 27 runs for the loss of a single wicket by the start of the 5th over.

England’s Alice Capsey caught Australia’s captain Alyssa Healy out to claim our second wicket of the innings after some quality bowling from Lauren Bell at the start of the 5th over.

The Aussies had a total of 59 runs for the loss of 2 wickets at the start of the 10th over of their innings.

The Australians went on to score a total of 99 runs for the loss of 3 wickets by the start of there 20th over.

Australia then lost there 4 wicket of the innings in the 21st over after Tahlia McGrath was caught out by Amy Jones after some quality bowing from Sarah Glen.

The halfway point of Australias innings (25 over) saw them with a total of 119 runs for the loss of 4 wickets.

England took their 5 wicket of the Australian innings with Sophie Ecclestone taking the catch from Lauren Bell’s delivery to send Ash Gardener back to the dressing room.

The green and gold ladies had scored a total of 197 runs for the loss of 5 wickets at the start of the 40th over.

The Aussie’s had scored 234 runs for the loss of 5 wickets at the start of their 45 over of their innings.

England then took there 6th wicket of the innings in the 46th over thanks to a brilliant catch from Charlie Dean to send Ellyse Perry back to the dressing room.

Perry was quickly followed back to the dressing room by Annabelle Sutherland after being dismissed by England’s Alice Capsey.

Australia finished off there innings with a total of 282 runs for the loss of 7 wickets.

England needed to score a total of 283 runs in there innings with the bat to both win the second ODI (One Day International) and take the series to a decider at Taunton on Tuesday (18th of July).

England scored a total of 1 run for the loss of 0 wickets in the opening over of there innings with the bat.

England had scored a total of 25 runs for the loss of no wickets by the start of the 5th over and then they went onto finish the powerplay with a score of 62 runs without the loss of a wicket.

England’s Tammy Beaumont scored her 18th 50 in 105 ODI matches for her country at the Ageas Bowl this afternoon.

England’s then Sophia Dunkley then fell on her sword in the 11th over of our innings with the bat and returned to the dressing room.

England then lost their second batter in the 17th over of the innings with Heather Knight returning to dressing room after scoring just 12 runs.

England then went into the 20th over of our innings with a score of 99 runs for the loss of just 2 wickets.

We then lost our 3rd wicket of the innings in the 21st with Tammy Beaumont following Heather Knight back to the England dressing room.

The lionesses then lost Alice Capsey in the 24th over after only scoring a total of 2 runs at the crease.

Dani Wyatt quickly followed her back to dressing room after scoring just 8 runs with the bat.

Nat Sciver-Brunt then scored her 21st 50 in 96 ODI (One Day International) matches and she has also scored 5 centuries during those appearances for her country.

The lionesses had a total of 201 runs for the loss of 5 wickets with 72 balls remaining in our innings with the bat.

Amy Jones was then the 6th England player to return to the dressing room with a total of 37 runs under her bat.

Sophie Ecclestone then quickly followed her back to England’s dressing room after scoring just a single run.

England were ahead in terms of runs at the start the 40th over with 210 runs to Australia’s 197 runs in there innings with the bat.

England had scored 224 runs after 42 overs to Australia’s 206 runs at the same stage of there innings

England had a total of 236 runs after 44th over compared to Australia’s 229 runs at the same stage of there innings.

Nat Sciver-Brunt then scored her 6th century in 96 0DI matches for her country and it was her 3rd verses Australia in this format.

Australia beat England by 3 wickets at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton to reclaim the Ashes on British soil.

There were 12,380 fans at the Ageas Bowl to watch this thrilling encounter between England and Australia.

I know that this is a very long and boring blog but I wanted to live the 2nd ODI match of the Ashes multi format series through a blog.

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Cam