Australia’s Ellyse Perry hit an attention grabbing 99 earlier than Sophie Ecclestone led England’s fightback on the primary day of the ladies’s Ashes on Thursday. Perry was Australia’s driving drive because the vacationers reached 328-7 at shut of play within the lone Test of the multi-format sequence at Trent Bridge. In the largest second of a dramatic day, Perry overturned an lbw verdict off Lauren Filer’s first ball at worldwide degree. Perry, who had scored solely 10 on the time, went on to achieve her fifth 50-plus rating in 10 Tests in opposition to England.

Perry was heartbroken after lacking out on her century

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Just as Australia regarded set to take a stranglehold on the Test, Ecclestone dismissed Jess Jonassen and Australia captain Alyssa Healy, for a duck, in the identical over.

Filer finally claimed the prize scalp of Perry as she eyed a century, whereas gradual left-armer Ecclestone bowled Tahlia McGrath, who smashed 61 in a 119-run stand with Perry.

The five-day Test is value 4 factors within the sequence and will likely be adopted by three Twenty20 internationals and three one-day internationals.

After the thrilling first males’s Test between England and Australia earlier this week, it was the ladies’s flip to grab the highlight.

Trying to regain the urn for the primary time since 2015, England have been cheered on by an attendance of 5,545 — the most important crowd on a single day for a ladies’s Test within the nation.

England captain Heather Knight, who promised to “entertain and inspire” on the eve of solely the second five-day ladies’s Test in historical past, was attacking along with her area settings after the hosts have been requested to bowl.

But Australia, buoyed by their T20 World Cup triumph earlier this yr, have been in management at 226-3 earlier than dropping three wickets for 12 runs within the area of 24 balls to provide England renewed hope.

Annabel Sutherland (39 not out) and Alana King (seven not out) will hope to blast Australia in the direction of 400 when play resumes on Friday.

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