Women’s Ashes 2022 third ODI: Australia thrash England by eight wickets – As it happened

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Over-by-over report: Australia brought the curtain down on the multi-format series with a convincing win at Junction Oval in Melbourne. Join Jim Wallace for reaction.

So that’s that. Well done Australia!

Not a thriller to finish with, largely due to England’s splutterings with the bat but Australia got the job done in style. They haven’t dropped a game all series and sent a pretty clear message to the rest of the world that they are in fine fettle ahead of the World Cup. That is due to get underway on the other side of ‘The Ditch’ in a few weeks time btw.

Excitingly for the Aussies the whole Ashes campaign was a true squad performance. Trusted performers stood up - the likes of Perry, Lanning, Jonassen and Moody showing their class but also a host of newer names such as Darcie Brown, Annabel Sutherland, Alana King and Tahlia McGrath all put in strong showings. They look a very slick outfit. Beware world.

What of England? Well the series sort of tailed off for them, they’ll feel aggrieved about the T20 washouts as they would have fancied their chances of stealing a few points from those to get them into the series. The Test match was a humdinger, for a good while it looked like they were going to pull off a memorable heist and set up a ding-dong finish in the fifty over stuff. Sadly, they just ran out of steam on that fourth day and in all honesty were lucky to escape with a draw in the end. Kudos to both teams for putting on such a thrilling Test. Let’s hope it leads to more.

Geoff’s match report will be along soon, shout out to him for all his work in these pages over the series, OBO-ing and match reporting, a class act.

Thanks for your company. I’ve safely avoided the 5am caffeine hit, the