3rd ODI – Australia v England
Bellerive Oval, Hobart, 17 January
Australia 308/8 (50.0) beat England 222 (42.2) by 86 runs
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6 – Australia took a formidable 6-0 points lead in the multi-format Women’s Ashes after sweeping the ODI series. They now require just one win from the T20Is or a draw in the Test to retain the trophy, which they have held since 2015.
3-0 – Australia have whitewashed the ODIs in three of the last four multi-format Ashes. The last time England women were swept in an ODI series by any team was a 3-0 defeat hosting India in 2022.
12 – Australia have now won their last twelve ODIs, and can lay claim to seven of the ten longest runs of consecutive victories in the format. This is the third time since 2018 that Australia have won an unbroken run of twelve or more ODIs. No other side has achieved a single run of this length since 2017:
- 26 Australia (2018-2021)
- 17 Australia (1997-1999)
- 16 Australia (2000)
- 16 India (2016-2017)
- 15 Australia (2022-2023)
- 13 England (1989-1991)
- 12 Australia (1978-1982)
- 12 Sri Lanka (2002-2003)
- 12 Australia (2002-2004)
- 12 Australia (2024-2025)*
*in progress
91% – Since the resumption of international cricket after COVID-19, Australia have won 44 of 48 completed ODIs (91.7%) and 21 of 23 at home (91.3%). This is their strongest run of results for any such period of games on home soil in their history.
308 – After a shaky start, Australia powered their way to the fourth highest total any side has made against England women in the format:
- 356/5 Australia at Christchurch, 2022
- 333/5 India at Canterbury, 2022
- 310/3 Australia at Hamilton, 2022
- 308/8 Australia at Hobart, 2025
- 305/9 South Africa at Bristol, 2017
Australia’s previous best on home soil against England had been 299/2 at Newcastle in 2000.
59 – That total hadn’t looked likely early on, as Australia were reduced to 59/4, their lowest total at the fall of the 4th wicket against England since the 2013 World Cup.
102 – The recovery and later domination was led by a historic innings from Ash Gardner. A proud Muruwari woman, Gardner brought up her maiden ODI century, becoming the first Indigenous Australian woman to score an international hundred in all international formats.
Having scored 74 against New Zealand at Basin Reserve on 23rd December, this was the second time in less than a month that Gardner has improved on her career best score in the format.
6 – Remarkably, Gardner was also the first player in the history of women’s ODIs to score a century from #6 in the batting order. This was the 1,435th match in the format since 1973, and until this game, no number six had got past 90:
- 102 Ash Gardner (AUS) v ENG, 2025
- 90* Fatima Sana (PAK) v NZ, 2023
- 90 Alex Blackwell (AUS) v IND, 2017
- 88 Chloe Tryon (SA) v ENG, 2022
West Indies’ Shemaine Campbelle is the only other woman to have scored a century from any position outside the top five.
First hundred by batting position in women’s ODIs
- #1 Enid Bakewell (ENG) – 101* v Int. XI at Hove, 1973
- #2 Lynne Thomas (ENG) – 134 v Int. XI at Hove, 1973
- #3 Rachael Heyhoe Flint (ENG) – 114 v Yng. ENG at Ilford, 1973
- #4 Helen Plimmer (ENG) – 118 v IRE at Reading, 1993
- #5 Helen Watson (NZ) – 115* v IRE at Dublin, 2004
- #6 Ash Gardner (AUS) – 102 v ENG at Hobart, 2025
- #7 Shemaine Campbelle (WI) – 105 v SL at Dambulla, 2013
100 & 5 – Gardner’s innings meant she joined an exclusive club of four Australian women who have scored at least one century and taken at least one five-wicket haul during their ODI careers:
- Lisa Sthalekar
- Shelley Nitschke
- Ellyse Perry
- Ash Gardner
95 – Gardner’s partnership with Beth Mooney was Australia women’s highest 5th wicket stand in ODIs against England, breaking a record that had stood for 43 years:
- 95 Ash Gardner & Beth Mooney at Hobart, 2025
- 79 Sharon Tredrea & Jen Jacobs at Christchurch, 1982
- 77* Ellyse Perry & Alex Blackwell at Hove, 2013
103 – Gardner followed that with a 103 run partnership with Tahlia McGrath, which was Australia’s second highest 6th wicket stand in the format, and their highest against England.
55 – McGrath’s innings was her first ODI half-century against England, and the highest score by any Australian woman batting at #7 or lower in the format against England.
316.66 – Georgia Wareham then blitzed an incredible 38* off 12 balls from #8 at the death. Wareham’s strike rate was the highest ever for a score of 35+ runs in a women’s ODI, and she now occupies two of the top three spots on the list:
- 316.66 Georgia Wareham 38* (12) – AUS v ENG, 2025
- 266.66 Ash Gardner 48* (18) – AUS v NZ, 2022
- 264.28 Georgia Wareham 37* (14) AUS v ENG, 2023
- 243.75 Deandra Dottin 39 (16) WI v IND, 2013
205 – This was the first time in women’s ODI history that an aggregate of more than 200 runs has been contributed from batters at #6 or lower in the same innings:
- 205 Australia v England at Hobart, 2025
- 173 New Zealand v South Africa at Potchefstroom, 2023
- 165 South Africa v Ireland at Dublin, 2016
76 – Sophie Ecclestone (10-0-76-1) conceded the second most runs in her ODI career. The three times Ecclestone has conceded 70+ runs in the format have all been against Australia.
38* & 2 – Wareham proceeded to take the key wickets of both England half-centurions, Beaumont and Sciver-Brunt, in the chase. No Australian woman has scored more runs from #8 or lower when also taking two or more wickets in the same ODI.
5 – Alana King followed up her career best in the previous game at Junction Oval with a maiden ODI five-fer at Bellerive. King became the first legspin bowler to take a five-wicket haul in a women’s ODI played in Australia, and now has five of the six best analyses by an Australian legspinner on home soil:
- 5-46 Alana King v ENG, Bellerive Oval, 2025 (3rd ODI)
- 4-11 Olivia Magno v PAK, Wesley Cricket Ground, 1997
- 4-25 Alana King v ENG, Junction Oval, 2025 (2nd ODI)
- 4-26 Alana King v SA, North Sydney, 2024
- 3-16 Alana King v WI, Junction Oval, 2023
- 3-19 Alana King v SA, Adelaide Oval, 2024
The only previous Australian legspinner to take consecutive hauls of four-wickets or more in ODIs was Jenny Owens.
Owens does retain the remarkable distinction of doing so for two different teams with a five year interval between the innings. She first took 4-13 against India at Christchurch playing for the International XI at the 1982 World Cup, before a career best 5-29 in her debut for Australia against Ireland at Dublin in 1987.
7 – King and Wareham’s efforts made this the most wickets taken by Australian legspinners in a women’s ODI. The previous record had been five, for Owens in the 1987 game against Ireland mentioned above, and for Wareham (3-23) and King’s (2-21) combined figures against India at Wankhede Stadium in 2024.
11 – King’s eleven wickets in the Ashes ODIs were the most ever taken by a legspinner in a three-match women’s ODI series, and the joint most by any Australian bowler in a series of that duration. Australia’s top three tallies have all been achieved during multi-format Ashes series:
- 11 Ellyse Perry v ENG, 2019 Ashes
- 11 Alana King v ENG, 2025 Ashes
- 10 Megan Schutt v ENG, 2017 Ashes
King was just one short of the overall record for a three-match women’s ODI series, which remains Deepti Sharma’s twelve for India against Sri Lanka in 2016.
12.76 – In the series overall, England lost seventeen wickets to spin bowling at an average of 12.76, compared with Australia’s thirteen dismissals at 24.38 against spin.
3 – Megan Schutt’s figures (9-0-57-3) were her best in an ODI against England since the Ashes series of 2017.
30 – Schutt now has the joint most wickets in Women’s Ashes ODIs, drawing level with Jess Jonassen.
89 – England had briefly looked in contention while Tammy Beaumont and Nat Sciver-Brunt were in the middle. Their 89 run partnership was England’s highest in an ODI run chase in Australia since 2014.
61 – Sciver-Brunt’s innings was her fifth 50+ score in her last eight ODI innings against Australia.
1,113 – Sciver-Brunt now has the most career runs by an English woman in ODIs against Australia, beating Charlotte Edwards’ 1,092.
3,811 – During her innings, Sciver-Brunt also became the highest run-scorer from #4 or lower in women’s ODI history:
- 3,811 Nat Sciver-Brunt ENG (101 innings)
- 3,802 Harmanpreet Kaur IND (121 innings)
- 3,742 Mithai Raj IND (109 innings)
6 – Things soon took a dramatic turn in the other direction for England. In slipping from 200/4 to 222 all out, England suffered their joint fourth worst 6th to 10th wicket collapse in an ODI against Australia, and their heaviest since 2013:
- 6/3 at Melbourne, 1985
- 6/12 at Cheltenham, 2005
- 6/19 at Kidderminster, 2005
- 6/22 at Lord’s 2013
- 6/22 at Hobart, 2025
4 – England now need to win all four remaining games to regain The Ashes.
Stats derived from ESPNcricinfo statsguru.
