Women’s Ashes Nottingham Test: Perry stars for Australia before Ecclestone and Co. hit back

Australia’s Ellyse Perry hit an eye catching 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 collection at Trent Bridge.

In the largest second of a dramatic day, Perry overturned an lbw verdict off Lauren Filer’s first ball at worldwide stage.

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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.

Just as Australia seemed 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 price 4 factors within the collection and might be adopted by three Twenty20 internationals and three one-day internationals.

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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 had been cheered on by an attendance of 5,545 — the most important crowd on a single day for a girls’s Test within the nation.

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

But Australia, buoyed by their T20 World Cup triumph earlier this yr, had been in management at 226-3 earlier than shedding three wickets for 12 runs within the house 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 direction of 400 when play resumes on Friday.