Women's Ashes top 20: The day Meg Lanning stormed 'Fortress Chelmsford' in the 2019 Women's Ashes

The approach to the Chelmsford County Cricket Ground in Essex has an ordinariness that only suburban England can truly provide.

After passing through ever-narrower residential streets, you eventually see the light towers, before endless white demountable buildings come in to view. Suddenly, you've reached the conclusion of a dead-end road and you're there.

Think Leichhardt Oval, rather than Lord's.

But what it lacks in aura, this ground makes up for in competitive edge: A good batting pitch, combined with a fast outfield, means runs flow quickly here and the small crowd always supports the home side with gusto.

Australia's cricketers were acutely aware of all that as they piled out of the team bus, on a hot afternoon back in July 2019.

Despite leading the series 8-2 at that point, and needing only one more win to secure the Ashes, they were cautious of the venue that local media loved to call «Fortress Chelmsford»'

«I've played there a couple of times before and both times we'd been beaten pretty comprehensively,» Meg Lanning told ABC Sport.

«It was a ground where we hadn't had much success previously. It was a bit of a challenge for the group to step up.»

Lanning says that, despite England's perfect record at the ground against Australia, she can remember her team wanted to secure the trophy as soon as possible in that first game of the T20 series.

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On a good batting track, Australia was sent in to bat and lost their first wicket in the opening over.

Australia's hard-hitting opener Alyssa Healy was caught out, smashing a ball straight up and the Australian captain was soon