![]() ![]() And when fine leg came up, I just had a chat with her, 'paddle's on, I back you to do it'. She was quite nervous when she came in, but we just broke it down, trying to get it in tens. "I thought it was slipping away there when we were eight-down, we kept losing wickets at regular intervals and kept making it hard for ourselves, but I was just trying to stay in my little bubble and keep really calm." "It was just pure relief and ecstasy," Knight said at the post-match presentation. Fittingly, it was left to Knight to seal the chase, after which she flung away her bat and let her emotions pour out as she leapt into Cross's arms and soaked up the acclaim of another packed house, with 5,731 fans in Bristol's County Ground. ![]() Knight made 75 from 86 balls while Cross' cameo of 19 from 20 deliveries included an audacious ramp shot over the head of Australia's wicketkeeping captain Alyssa Healey. ![]() Cross joined Knight in the 44th over, with their partnership of 32 proving pivotal as England triumphed with 11 balls to spare. But hey have now lost three consecutive games for the first time since 2017 after England won the opening ODI at Bristol on Wednesday night.Ĭhasing 264 to win, wickets fell at regular intervals and it was left to skipper Knight, from Plymouth, and who learnt her cricket at Plympton CC, and Kate Cross, coming in at 10, to get England over the line. England secured a nerve-shredding two-wicket win to wipe out the 6-0 deficit suffered after losing the series' solitary Test and the opening T20 clash.Īustralia need to win only one of the two remaining ODIs at Southampton and Taunton to retain the Ashes. England captain Heather Knight led her side to a third successive victory over Australia in the Women’s Ashes to level up the series. ![]()
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