Five-day focus

The Women’s Ashes gets underway on June 22 with a five-day Test at Trent Bridge

It was some game in Canberra. Set a target of 257 in the solitary Test of the 2022 Ashes series, England, inspired by Heather Knight’s first-innings 168*, were gunning for an upset until they lost six wickets for 28 runs, leaving them nine down with just over two overs left on the fourth and final day. In the end, it was a draw, the most thrilling of affairs – but with no jubilant victor.
This time round, there will surely be a definitive result. The series opener is a five-day affair, the first time this has b...

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