2nd T20I – Australia v England
Manuka Oval, Canberra, 23 January
Australia 185/5 (20.0) beat England 168/4 (19.1) by 6 runs DLS
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10 – A six run DLS win in the 2nd T20I at Manuka Oval saw Australia take a 10-0 points lead, which ensures they have now completed eleven outright series wins in the twenty-six editions of the Women’s Ashes since 1934:
- Australia series wins 11
- England series wins 6
- Drawn series 9
185 – Australia’s total was their fourth highest against England in the format. Their only higher score against England on home soil was at the SCG in the previous game:
- 226/3 at Chelmsford, 2019
- 209/4 at Brabourne, 2018
- 198/7 at Sydney, 2025 (1st T20I)
- 185/5 at Canberra, 2025 (2nd T20I)
- 183/8 at The Oval, 2023
40+ & 120+ – Player of the match, Tahlia McGrath (48* off 35) is one of two women in T20I history to have batted 40+ times in the format and have a career batting average over 40 and career strike rate over 120. The other is her team-mate, Beth Mooney (who scored 44 off 31 in this match):
- 41.59 & 132.27 Tahlia McGrath (AUS)
- 40.01 & 123.50 Beth Mooney (AUS)
156.78 – Grace Harris, who scored a typically impactful 35* off 17 balls at the death, has the highest career strike rate by any woman to have faced 250+ balls in T20Is.
3 – This was the second time in her T20I career that Harris has hit three sixes when batting at #7 or lower in the batting order. She is the only Australian woman to clear the rope this many times when batting in this position.
71* – McGrath and Harris’ partnership was Australia women’s highest 6th wicket stand in T20Is:
- 71* Grace Harris & Tahlia McGrath v ENG, Canberra, 2025
- 68 Alex Blackwell & Karen Rolton v SA, Taunton, 2009
- 59* Alex Blackwell & Alyssa Healy v IND, Adelaide, 2016
12.17 rpo – With their partnership being amassed in just 5.5 overs, McGrath and Harris’ run-rate was the highest ever for a 50+ stand against England women in the format. The previous best had been Meg Lanning and Ash Gardner’s 66 off 33 balls (12.00 rpo) for Australia at Chelmsford during the 2019 Ashes.
11.28 rpo – Sarah Glenn, who has conceded 79 runs in the first two T20Is, currently has the highest economy rate among English women to have bowled 7.0 or more overs in any T20I series or tournament. Lauren Bell (11.00 rpo) is second on the same list, having conceded 77 runs from her 7.0 overs in the T20Is so far.
14 – The dismissal of Mooney meant that Amy Jones and Sophie Ecclestone have now combined for the joint second most stumpings by a keeper-bowler duo in women’s T20Is:
- 18 st Nigar Sultana b Nahida Akter (BAN)
- 14 st Ni Sakarini b Ni Sariani (INA)
- 14 st Amy Jones b Sophie Ecclestone (ENG)
- 13 st Sarah Bryce b Abtaha Maqsood (SCO)
444 – Mooney’s 444 career runs in T20Is at Manuka Oval (at a remarkable average of 88.80) are the most scored at a single venue by a woman from a Full Member nation. Heather Knight, who also excels in Canberra, is third on the same list for her own runs at Manuka, and holds the record for a batter away from home:
- 444 Beth Mooney (AUS) at Manuka Oval, Canberra
- 443 Chamari Athapaththu (SL) at Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium
- 427 Heather Knight (ENG) at Manuka Oval, Canberra
6 – Knight has scored at least 40 runs in her last six T20I innings at Canberra.
226.31 – Knight’s 43* off 19 balls was the highest strike rate score of 25+ runs in her international career. Only one English woman has ever scored more runs at a higher strike rate in a T20I – Alice Capsey, with 51 off 22 against Ireland at the 2023 T20 World Cup (SR 231.81)
52 – Danni Wyatt-Hodge brought up the 21st score of fifty or more in her T20I career. Wyatt-Hodge’s five 50+ scores against Australia are the most by an English woman in the format, overtaking Sarah Taylor.
138.97 – Sophia Dunkley followed up her 59 off 30 balls in the 1st T20I with another dynamic innings of 32 (22) in the 2nd. Among women to have faced 150+ balls against them in the format, Dunkley has the third highest career strike rate in T20Is against Australia:
- 153.55 Hayley Matthews (WI)
- 139.74 Shafali Verma (IND)
- 138.97 Sophia Dunkley (ENG)
148 – Wyatt-Hodge and Dunkley were both dismissed in a pivotal over by the evergreen Megan Schutt (4-0-32-2). Schutt has taken the most career wickets in women’s T20Is (148), the most in women’s T20Is played in Australia (57), the most in women’s T20Is played against England (33), and the most in Women’s Ashes T20Is (21).
0 – Perhaps unsurprisingly in a game heavily affected by rain, this was the first match in the series in which Australia’s spin bowlers didn’t take a wicket.
5 – With a whitewash looming, this is the first time that the same team has won the first five matches of a multi-format Women’s Ashes series.
Stats derived from ESPNcricinfo statsguru.
