Women's Ashes, The ODIs. January 12-17

[cats_09]

England have won the toss and elected to bowl - there's a bit of cloud cover overhead at the moment so they'll want to make the most of any early movement

Australia go on unchanged - thought we might have seen Wareham come in on this deck as we saw spin have a bit of an influence during the WBBL

Backing in the batsmen to get the runs on the board

 

[cats_09]

Looks like England is also unchanged from Sunday

 

[cats_09]

Litchfield first back out after the team warm-ups - now in full gear and with a few last exercises to get ready

 

[cats_09]

This is just a crazy stat to show the dominance of our womens team over an extended period of time

 

[troybe]

Hopefully this cloud burns off shortly and we some fireworks

 

[troybe]

The ground is like a postage stamp with the ropes so far in

 

[cats_09]

Filer falling over on her first ball - happened to her 5 times in her first couple of overs of the GG game

Will be interesting to see how that impacts her

And while she didn't fall over on her second ball, she's got a third teammate looking at the crease at that end with ground staff coming out to look at it also

 

[cats_09]

The ground is like a postage stamp with the ropes so far in

They look in more than we see for WBBL games

 

[Carbine Chaos]

McGrath really has to justify her selection over Voll today.

 

[cats_09]

Filer down again on her 4th ball

She wasn't happy after her 3rd ball & looked at the crease as she walked back to her mark - considering she's been having issues with this so far this tour, got to wonder how much is the pitch/crease, versus something in the mind

 

[cats_09]

McGrath really has to justify her selection over Voll today.

I don't think it's just McGrath that should be under pressure to hold her spot

We know Sutherland will bowl a number of overs, add in Pez & McGrath who are capable of bowling pace if needed, I wonder if we do need to select the pace trio of Garth, Schutt & Brown - or could we drop one of them for Voll as an extra batsmen, or say Wareham as a spin & lower order batting option

 

[Moonwatcher]

Thanks 7 the ball was in the air (potentially being caught)

 

[cats_09]

Liking Healy's leadership/experience this morning

There's been a couple of times now between balls that she's come down the wicket to chat with Litchfield with a reassuring word

From the stands we obviously can't hear what's been said, but can imagine it's along the lines of everything's good, value your wicket and the runs will come. Don't force the issue

 

[troybe]

Nice pull shot there Phoebe

 

[troybe]

DJ doing their job with Where’s Your Head At?

 

[cats_09]

Bugger, Healy had been looking pretty solid though played a couple of false shots in recent overs

 

[cats_09]

DJ doing their job with Where’s Your Head At?

Nope

Something random I couldn't name

 

[troybe]

Not giving the fielders anything to chase these boundaries

 

[cats_09]

Not giving the fielders anything to chase these boundaries

Maybe the seagulls can help slow the ball down

This is a small enough ground, especially square where I've seen the fence cleared with ease on occasions - no idea why the rope is in as much as it is today, especially square of the wicket

 

[Moonwatcher]

At least we're not looking at her legs today

 

[cats_09]

At least we're not looking at her legs today

She fell over twice in her first 4 balls and didn't look comfortable bowling from the Fitzroy St end

Wonder if the that's why they took her off after just 3 overs and have switched ends

But watching that last ball, Filer does seem to slide forward more on her front leg compared with others where it's more stable after landing

 

[Moonwatcher]

She fell over twice in her first 4 balls and didn't look comfortable bowling from the Fitzroy St end

Wonder if the that's why they took her off after just 3 overs and have switched ends

But watching that last ball, Filer does seem to slide forward more on her front leg compared with others where it's more stable after landing

I meant the commentator

 

[Moonwatcher]

Litchfield batting slowly

 

[LukeParkerno1]

McGrath really has to justify her selection over Voll today.

Different roles, if Georgia isn't opening she sure as anything isn't batting where McGrath is,

 

[troybe]

Pez dispenses that to the boundary with ease