3rd T20I – Australia v England
Adelaide Oval, 25 January
Australia 162/5 (20.0) beat England 90 (17.3) by 72 runs
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12 – Australia will take a 12-0 points lead into the conclusive Test match, after a dominant victory in the 3rd T20I at Adelaide Oval.
6 – In sweeping both white-ball series, Australia became the first team to win six matches in a single edition of the Women’s Ashes.
0 – England women suffered their first series whitewash in their T20I history, and now require at least a draw in the Test match to avoid the first clean sweep in a multi-format Women’s Ashes.
72 – Australia’s victory was the second biggest in terms of runs margin against England women in a T20I. They have now inflicted England five heaviest defeats in the format:
- Australia won by 93 runs at Chelmsford, 2019
- Australia won by 72 runs at Adelaide, 2025 (3rd T20I)
- Australia won by 57 runs at Brabourne, 2018
- Australia won by 57 runs at Sydney, 2025 (1st T20I)
- Australia won by 52 runs at Canberra, 2011
162 – While Australia were restricted to their lowest score of the series, it was still their highest 1st innings total in the format at Adelaide Oval.
94* – Player of the match, Beth Mooney’s 94* accounted for 58% of Australia’s total. Opening partner Georgia Voll made the next highest score in the innings with 23.
In women’s T20Is played between Full Member nations, this was the fourth highest individual score made in an innings where no other other player reached 25. The top four highest scores of this nature have all been made in Australia, with performances by Mooney in Ashes matches occupying two of the top four spots on the list:
- 117* Beth Mooney (AUS) v ENG at Canberra, 2017 (next highest 22*)
- 113 Chamari Athapaththu (SL) v AUS at North Sydney, 2019 (next highest 16)
- 99* Hayley Matthews (WI) v AUS at North Sydney, 2023 (next highest 19)
- 94* Beth Mooney (AUS) v ENG at Adelaide, 2025 (next highest 23)
10 – Mooney has now made the most scores of 75+ runs in women’s T20Is:
- 10 Beth Mooney (AUS)
- 9 Danni Wyatt-Hodge (ENG)
- 7 Smriti Mandhana (IND); Esha Oza (UAE)
54 – During her innings, Mooney physically ran 54 off 53 non-boundary balls (12×2, 30×1). This is the most non-boundary runs scored by an Australian woman in a T20I. Mooney ran more twos (12) than she faced dot balls (11) at Adelaide.
st1 ct1 – After this feat of physical prowess, Mooney then kept wicket for 17.3 overs for the duration of the chase. Mooney became the second wicket-keeper to score 90+ runs and complete two dismissals in a women’s T20I. The other was Pakistan’s Muneeba Ali, against Ireland at the 2023 T20 World Cup.
57.46 – Mooney’s batting average in T20Is against England now stands at 57.46, the highest by any woman to have faced them five or more times in the format.
213 – Mooney finished with the fifth most runs by any woman in a three-match bilateral T20I series. The only Australian to score more was Mooney herself, during the T20 component of the multi-format Ashes in 2017:
- 310 Hayley Matthews (WI) v AUS, 2023
- 300 Maria Castiñeiras (ARG) v CHI, 2023
- 250 Andrea-Mae Zepeda (AUT) v BEL, 2021
- 220 Beth Mooney (AUS) v ENG, 2017
- 213 Beth Mooney (AUS) v ENG, 2025
303 – Mooney currently has 131 more runs than the next highest scorer in this multi-format series (England’s Heather Knight on 172), and needs a further 102 in the Test match to break the outright record for a multi-format Women’s Ashes series (Nat Sciver-Brunt’s 404 in 2023).
3 – Georgia Wareham took her career best T20I figures (4-0-11-3), and the best ever figures by an Australian spin bowler in the format against England.
22 – The combined efforts of Wareham and Alana King (2-0-17-1) in the series as whole now constitute the most wickets taken by Australian legspinners in any women’s international series or tournament. Heading into the Test, their tally now stands at 22 wickets at an average of 11.05.
The previous record had been the 19 wickets taken by Peggy Antonio during 1937 Ashes (Australia women’s second ever international series in any format). Antonio was one of the early bowlers of the googly in women’s cricket, with opposition struggling to pick it. In a six-Test career, Antonio took 31 wickets at an average of 13.90, and in 24 recorded First Class matches, finished with a remarkable haul of 137 wickets at just 9.37.
2 – South Australian speedster Darcie Brown took as many wickets against England in this match on her home ground (4-0-25-2) as she had in her previous four encounters with England in the format (12-0-77-2).
6 – This was the second time in three games that Australia have had six different bowlers take a wicket in the same innings (having also done so in the 1st T20I at Sydney). Australia women only had six different wicket takers in a T20I against England on one occasion before this Ashes series (during the tri-series in Mumbai in 2018).
4 – Nat Sciver-Brunt has been dismissed bowled as many times during this 2025 multi-format Ashes series (4), as she was in all international formats combined in 2024.
101 – Heather Knight, who scored 40 as the team crumbled around her, became the first player to score over 100 runs batting at #5 or lower in a three-match T20I series against Australia women. The previous record had been Katey Martin’s 94 for New Zealand in 2018.
90 – England rounded out the white-ball leg of the series being bowled out for their second lowest T20I total:
- 87 v Australia at County Ground, Hove, 2015
- 90 v Australia at Adelaide Oval, 2025
- 96 v India at Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai, 2010
- 96 v Australia at Brabaoure Stadium, Mumbai, 2018
-4 – With Mooney managing four more runs on her own, this was the first time in the format that England women as a team have been outscored by a single opposition player. The closest they had come before was in making a total of 133/9 in the 2019 Ashes match at Chelmsford, in which Australia’s Meg Lanning scored 133*.
Stats derived from ESPNcricinfo statsguru.
