Australia maintained their two-year winning streak on the penultimate ball of the night. 7NEWS
Beth Mooney has guided Australia to within one win of retaining the Ashes, but only after surviving a mighty scare in a last-over Twenty20 win over England at Edgbaston.
But needing just the single to win, the next two were dots, before Sutherland got caught off the fourth, trying to slash over the top.Georgia Wareham then entered, and though her hit off the penultimate ball was partially stopped at cover, she and Mooney still managed to scamper the single that protected Australia’s proud record of not having lost an official T20 match for two years.
Earlier, Jess Jonassen had taken 3-25 with her spin and Megan Schutt 2-33 with her pace to keep the England total down, before Australia’s reply centred largely on Mooney as the anchor, with Tahlia McGrath cracking 40 off 29 balls and Test hero Ash Gardner making 31 off 23.
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