‘Frustrating’: England’s Knight looks to Canberra Test after Ashes T20 washout

England captain Heather Knight has said that her side will be going all out to win the Ashes Test in Canberra, after consecutive wash-outs in the second and third T20s at Adelaide left both sides frustrated at the lack of opportunity to get early points on the board in the series.

Australia won the first match by nine wickets but the second game on Saturday was called off after 4.1 overs, while Sunday’s final T20 was abandoned without a ball being bowled. The series scoreline stands at 4-2 to Australia, and with the Test worth four points, a win is crucial to England’s hopes of regaining the Ashes.

“It’s been a very frustrating couple of days,” Knight said. “We didn’t have the chance to try and get back in the series with the two games. With Test match cricket you have to earn the right to be aggressive. It’s about getting ready mentally. We’ll sit down as a group and try and work out the best strategy to try to win us the game and take that four points. If we can get a win in the Test match, it puts us in a strong position going into the ODIs.”

Australian morale has been dented by the news that fast bowler Tayla Vlaeminck will miss the remainder of the Ashes and the World Cup in New Zealand with a stress fracture in her right foot – a recurrence of the injury which kept her out of the 2020 T20 World Cup.

“It was a pretty quiet changing room when we found out the news last night,” teammate Rachael Haynes said. “We’re so disappointed for her.”

In happier news, Australia coach Matthew Mott confirmed that Beth Mooney would be returning to the squad for the remainder of the series. Mooney, who only days ago underwent surgery to mend the fracture in her jaw, was spotted at the Adelaide Oval jogging around the outfield and has