- Third T20: England, 119-5, beat Australia, 155-7, by 5 wkts (DLS)
- Australia lead the series 6 pts to 4
Somehow, despite the MCC’s historical antipathy to women’s cricket, Lord’s always seems to be a ground where female cricketers make history. England Women have three times won a World Cup here, in 1993, 2009 and 2017. In 1998, the Harris Garden was their site of choice when, after 64 years of England-Australia contests, the women finally created some “ashes” of their own, in a unique and slightly bizarre ceremony involving the burning of a miniature bat in a wok (handily provided by the MCC kitchen).
Fitting, then, that as the Women’s Ashes series finally returned to Lord’s on Saturday evening for the first time in ten years, and on a day in which MCC President Stephen Fry unveiled a plaque to commemorate the trophy’s creation, it was Lord’s which laid witness to an English victory in front of an historic crowd of 21,610 – smashing the record for a bilateral women’s international in England.
