- Meg Lanning hits record 133 at Chelmsford
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That’s it, there’ll be no party-spoiling draws of the series this year. The points scoreline across all formats is 2-10 Australia’s way, meaning England can only close the gap to 6-10 at best. And that looks unlikely given the gulf between the teams tonight. England were shellshocked from the second over, when Beth Mooney went after them with four boundaries in no time. Lanning very quickly matched her, then passed her, and while Mooney fell for a fifty, Lanning powered on to the biggest hundred in this format of the women’s game.
Australia’s biggest ever score was never a realistic chance for England to chase, and predictably they lost early wickets trying to hit out. From then, even the slight chance was gone. England have been exposed in all three formats now in this series, and there will be reviews, recriminations and restructures once this series is done.
20th over: England 133-9 (Brunt 29, Cross 0) Kate Cross is nowhere near the last ball, wide outside off. A dot to finish, and England avoid being bowled out, but that’s about all they can take out of tonight.
Written by Geoff Lemon
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