England suffered extra torment on the Ladies’s Ashes as they dropped seven catches to permit a dominant Australia to imagine complete management of the day/night time Check in Melbourne.
The ignominy of a 16-0 clear sweep moved ever nearer on the second day on the MCG, the place Annabel Sutherland struck 163 to information her facet to 422 for 5 – a lead of 252.
However for all of Sutherland’s brilliance in scoring her third century in simply six Check caps, or Beth Mooney’s in following up with 98 not out, England had been their very own worst enemy as a failure to do the fundamentals price them pricey.
Danni Wyatt-Hodge, Amy Jones, Sophie Ecclestone (twice), Ryana MacDonald-Homosexual, Maia Bouchier and Lauren Filer had been all responsible of fumbling possibilities – some simpler than others – to make life easy for his or her rivals.
Elsewhere, regulation floor fielding and a few troublesome half-chances added to the woe because the hosts piled on 366 throughout three classes.
England’s underpowered first-innings complete of 170 left them susceptible and in want of fast breakthroughs however the disappointment began early.
Ecclestone twice got here near ending Sutherland’s keep lengthy earlier than it reworked into its final triumph. She had simply 29 when she threaded an opportunity to Wyatt-Hodge at level however one of many extra dependable pair of fingers within the staff set the tone for dealing with errors as she failed to hold on.
Ecclestone got here once more within the subsequent over, clipping the surface edge with a magnificence just for Jones to let a pointy, low probability evade her behind the stumps.


As if so as to add insult to damage only a few balls later, Sutherland launched Ecclestone over long-off for the primary six of the match.
Lauren Bell’s introduction introduced some respite, Phoebe Litchfield nicking behind for 45 after surviving a few false pictures. Captain Heather Knight squandered a evaluation making an attempt to get Alyssa Healy given lbw off the bat and on the finish of the session the hosts had moved to 154 for 2, with Sutherland the anchor on 71.
The scores had been degree early within the night, with simply 60 overs down, however after bowling unchanged in a luckless two-hour spell within the afternoon Ecclestone snapped up Healy at first of her second.
She was given lbw regardless of believing an inside edge had saved her, clearly sad as she made for the pavilion. If that was a minor setback for Australia, then the foremost ones simply saved racking up within the English ranks.
MacDonald-Homosexual and Ecclestone each bought one of the best of Mooney whereas she was simply getting began however conspired to grass the possibilities off one another’s bowling.
The frustration was written throughout England’s faces however issues had been about to get even worse, as Mooney carved the only doable catch to gully. Bouchier couldn’t have requested for a greater probability, looping by way of at waist peak, however juggled it to the ground.
Having now been spared on eight, 11 and 18, Mooney adopted Sutherland lead by cashing in to the complete.
Sutherland was on 99 when that fifth drop went down and shortly took the acclaim as she lashed a brief ball from the tiring Ecclestone for 4. It was a particular second for her and a galling one for her opponents, who quickly had been quickly cursing a comically unhealthy misfield from Filer.
The second new ball introduced no respite, leaking 33 runs from 4 overs earlier than the second break.


Sutherland’s cruel five-and-a-half-hour keep lastly got here to an finish beneath the floodlights, MacDonald-Homosexual taking her fielders out of the equation by seaming one again previous the surface edge and into off stump.
The lead had already grown to 154 by that time and any sense of reduction expired as Ecclestone dedicated one other grievous error at slip, fumbling Ashleigh Gardner off MacDonald-Homosexual.
Sophia Dunkley bought in on the act as she allowed a mild pull to squeeze by way of her dive for 4 at advantageous leg and Filer may solely get her fingertips to a vanguard that Gardner popped again on the seamer late within the day.
Mooney ended agonisingly near a maiden century however will get her probability on day three earlier than a possible declaration.
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