Women’s Ashes 2025: England collapse is the same old story after Australia’s unlikely win

However, now we have seen this one earlier than.

England loved an excellent residence summer time towards New Zealand and Pakistan the place they went unbeaten, however very not often had been they challenged. Within the subsequent T20 World Cup within the autumn, they crumbled of their ultimate group-stage match towards West Indies and crashed out of the match.

Following that disappointment, they responded effectively by thrashing South Africa away from residence in all three codecs in November and December, however as soon as the strain was utilized in a must-win state of affairs within the warmth of an Ashes cauldron, it was the identical previous story.

In fact, the defeat isn’t Jones’ or Bell’s fault or the truth that England are 4-0 down and dealing with an infinite uphill climb.

Australia are an unbelievable facet filled with world-class expertise and Alana King, Ash Gardner and Kim Garth all produced incredible spells of disciplined bowling to maintain England underneath the pump throughout their pursuit of 180.

And the pitch erred on the facet of “bowler-friendly”. However even when taking all of that into consideration, it was a sport that England misplaced versus Australia successful. They will not be afforded a greater likelihood to get themselves again within the contest.

Jones battled for 103 balls and will get credit score for taking the sport as deep as she did when the wickets fell round her, however that doesn’t take away from the truth that, because the senior batter, the mismanagement of the state of affairs when batting with the tail was extraordinarily expensive.

Even earlier than the free hit misjudgement, twice she turned down singles from the fifth ball of an over after which couldn’t maintain the strike from the sixth. Gardner’s forty sixth over was blocked out by Bell, and consequently the run-rate spiralled manner above a run-a-ball and Jones was backed right into a nook to play her photographs with extra danger than essential.

The tempo of the chase was curious all through, too, notably from a facet whose chief and coach are always telling us how they aspire to entertain, to play a constructive model of cricket and put strain again on the opposition.

England confronted 289 balls out of their 300 accessible, and 206 of them had been dot balls.

When contemplating moments the place the sport was misplaced, that could be a fairly damning indicator.