Only Test – Australia v England
Melbourne Cricket Ground, 1 February
Day 3 – Australia 440 beat England 170 & 148 by an innings and 122 runs
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16 – A crushing victory in the Melbourne Test saw Australia complete an unprecedented multi-format Women’s Ashes series whitewash. Australia have scored as many points in the 2025 Women’s Ashes series as England have managed in the last four editions combined.
Multi-format Women’s Ashes series results
- ENG 12-4 AUS in 2013
- ENG 10-8 AUS in 2013/14
- AUS 10-6 ENG in 2015
- AUS 8-8 ENG in 2017/18
- AUS 12-4 ENG in 2019
- AUS 12-4 ENG in 2021/22
- AUS 8-8 ENG in 2023
- AUS 16-0 ENG in 2024/25
6 – Australia have now held the trophy for the last six editions, equalling their own record from 1984-2003, in the era when the series were contested solely in the Test format.
2017 – England have now gone two full Ashes tours of Australia without a victory in any format. Their last win in an Ashes match in Australia was the 3rd T20I at Manuka Oval in November 2017.
Inns & 122 – Australia’s commanding margin of victory was the fourth biggest in women’s Test history, and the second biggest in an Ashes match:
- Inns & 337 runs ENG v NZ at Christchurch, 1935
- Inns & 284 runs AUS v SA at Perth, 2024
- Inns & 140 runs AUS v ENG at Shenley, 2001
- Inns & 122 runs AUS v ENG at Melbourne, 2025
- Inns & 102 runs AUS v NZ at Wellington, 1948
2 – Following on from their trouncing of South Africa at the WACA last year, this is the first time since 2003 that Australia women have won back to back Test matches.
75% – Alyssa Healy has now won three of her four Tests as captain, the best win percentage by any woman to have led as many games in the format.
270.5 – The 270.5 overs of play in the match were the second fewest required for a victory in a Women’s Ashes Test in the four-day era, beaten only by the 259.2 at Shenley in 2001 (which also saw Australia win by an innings).
3 – Having been comprehensively outplayed by Australia in this match and also by India at the DY Patil in December 2023, this was the second time in their last three matches that England women have lost a Test match inside three days. Their last three-day defeat in a Test before this run was twenty years earlier, against Australia at The Gabba in 2003.
106 – The day began with Beth Mooney etching her name into the history books. On bringing up her maiden Test century, Mooney became the fourth woman, and the first from Australia, to make at least one hundred in all three international formats. Three of the four were playing in this Test:
- Heather Knight (ENG)
- Tammy Beaumont (ENG)
- Laura Wolvaardt (SA)
- Beth Mooney (AUS)
155 – Mooney’s hundred was the third fastest recorded by an Australian woman in Test cricket. Australia’s three fastest Test centuries have all been made in the run of four matches they have played since 2023:
balls faced
- 148 Annabel Sutherland v ENG at Trent Bridge, 2023
- 149 Annabel Sutherland v SA at the WACA, 2024
- 155 Beth Mooney v ENG at the MCG, 2025
- 156 Jill Kennare v ENG at the WACA, 1984
- 160 Belinda Clark v ENG at Worcester, 1998
2 – After Annabel Sutherland’s 163 the day before, this was the fifth time, and the first on home soil, that Australia women have had two century-makers in the same Test innings:
- 3×100 (innings 2) v India at Ahmedabad, 1984 (Verco, Kennare & Price)
- 2×100 (innings 2) v England at Wetherby, 1987 (Reeler & Annetts)
- 2×100 (innings 2) v England at Guildford, 1998 (Broadbent & Jones)
- 2×100 (innings 2) v England at Worcester 1998 (Clark & Rolton)
- 2×100 (innings 2) v England at the MCG, 2025 (Sutherland & Mooney)
409 – Mooney’s innings also saw her break the record for most runs scored in a multi-format Women’s Ashes series:
- 409 Beth Mooney (AUS) in 2025
- 404 Nat Sciver-Brunt (ENG) in 2023
- 401 Ellyse Perry (AUS) in 2023
- 378 Ellyse Perry (AUS) in 2019
- 363 Beth Mooney (AUS) in 2023
In a series where runs were often hard to come by, Mooney stood out for her consistency and ability to work through tough passages of play, finishing the 2025 edition a full 180 runs clear of the next highest run-scorer (England’s Heather Knight with 229).
5 – After Mooney reached her milestone, Australia’s innings rapidly fell away, as England bowled well and held on to their catches on the third morning. In going from 431/5 to 440 all out, Australia suffered their joint heaviest 6th to 10th wicket collapse in the format:
- 5/9 v NZ at Junction Oval, 1972
- 5/9 v ENG at the MCG, 2025
- 5/10 v ENG at Junction Oval, 1958
3 – Sophie Ecclestone (44.3-8-143-5) has now taken a five-wicket haul in each of her last three Test innings against Australia. Ecclestone’s three Test career five-fers are the joint most taken by any women in the format against Australia:
- 3 Sophie Ecclestone ENG (8 innings)
- 3 Mary Duggan ENG (17 innings)
- 3 Katherine Sciver-Brunt ENG (19 innings)
40 – Ecclestone is now England women’s joint fifth highest wicket-taker in Test cricket, drawing level with fellow left-arm spinner Gillian McConway.
270 – In truth though, even with the collapse there seemed little jeopardy in the game, as Australia had already amassed their biggest 1st innings lead in an Ashes Test.
440 – Australia’s total was their third highest in a home Test, with two of the top three coming in day-night Ashes games:
- 575/9d v South Africa at the WACA, 2024
- 448/9d v England at North Sydney, 2017 (pink ball D/N)
- 440 v England at the MCG, 2025 (pink ball D/N)
42 – Another low score for opener Maia Bouchier (1) saw her finish with 42 runs at an average of 6.00 in the series as a whole. This is the lowest runs aggregate achieved by any specialist batter to play six or more games in a multi-format Women’s Ashes series.
73 – While England briefly rallied with a 73 run stand between veterans Beaumont and Knight (England’s highest partnership of the match, and their second highest of the tour), things soon unravelled in familiar fashion once Australia’s spinners took control.
9 – Player of the series, Alana King took her maiden Test 5-fer in another captivating display of legspin bowling (23.4-9-53-5), which saw her fittingly take the wicket that sealed the whitewash. In doing so, King (9-98) became the second legspinner to take nine wickets in a Women’s Ashes Test. The first was Australia’s legendary Peggy Antonio (9-91) at Northampton in 1937.
Overall, King’s match figures were the fourth best recorded by a legspinner in women’s Test history:
- 13-226 Shaiza Khan (PAK) v WI at Karachi, 2004
- 10-137 Jackie Lord (NZ) v AUS at Albert Cricket Ground, 1979
- 9-91 Peggy Antonio (AUS) v ENG at Northampton, 1937
- 9-98 Alana King (AUS) v ENG at the MCG, 2025
King’s figures were also the fourth best taken by any Australian women’s bowler in a home Test. It had been 56 years since an Australian woman had taken nine wickets on home soil:
- 11-16 Betty Wilson v ENG at Junction Oval, 1958
- 10-118 Anne Gordon v ENG at Junction Oval, 1969
- 9-62 Betty Wilson v ENG at Adelaide Oval, 1949
- 9-98 Alana King v ENG at the MCG, 2025
4 – Ash Gardner also shone once more, taking her first four wicket haul in a home Test (25-11-39-4).
14 – The fourteen wickets combined for King (9-98) and Gardner (5-69) at the MCG were the most taken by Australian women’s spinners in a Test match since at least the 1950s (the number of bowlers with mixed styles in that era and earlier makes it difficult/impossible to precisely specify how many wickets fell to spin or pace).
23 – King finished with the joint most wickets in a Women’s Ashes series, equalling Gardner’s record tally from 2023:
- 23 Ash Gardner (AUS) in 2023
- 23 Alana King (AUS) in 2025
- 20 Sophie Ecclestone (ENG) in 2023
- 18 Megan Schutt (AUS) in 2017
- 16 Ellyse Perry (AUS) in 2015
148 – England closed out a miserable tour slumping from 100/2 to 148 all out. This was their lowest total in an Ashes Test since the 101 in the 4th innings drubbing at Canterbury in 2015 – the series in which they lost control of the trophy. England have now failed to reach 180 in five of their last seven Test innings.
7 – Starting with the Ashes match at Trent Bridge in 2023, the last seven women’s Test matches staged globally have all ended in positive results. This is the first time in women’s Test history that seven consecutive matches have been played without a draw.
2.79 rpo – The average run-rate at the MCG was the third highest for a women’s Test match played in Australia. The last six women’s Tests staged in Australia have been the six fastest scoring games in the format played in the country:
- 3.40 rpo AUS v SA at Perth, 2024
- 3.40 rpo AUS v ENG at Canberra, 2022
- 2.79 rpo AUS v ENG at Melbourne, 2025
- 2.68 rpo AUS v IND at Carrara, 2021
- 2.41 rpo AUS v ENG at North Sydney, 2017
- 2.35 rpo AUS v ENG at Perth, 2014
35,365 – The attendance across the three days at Melbourne was the highest recorded for a women’s Test match, beating the 23,117 for the five-day Ashes match at Trent Bridge in 2023.
Stats derived from ESPNcricinfo statsguru, Cricket Archive, Women’s Cricket History and womenscricket.net
