Ladies’s Ashes 2025: Can England finish their 10-year drought in opposition to Australia?

THE Women’s Ashes Series 2025 is ready to start on January 11 in Australia, with England aiming to finish a 10-year drought in opposition to their rivals. The collection will characteristic a multi-format construction comprising three One Day Internationals (ODIs), three T20 Internationals (T20Is) and a single Check match, culminating on February 2.

The Ladies’s Ashes factors system

The Ladies’s Ashes makes use of a multi-format factors system to find out the winner of the collection. Factors are awarded based mostly on the outcomes of a single Check match and 6 white-ball matches (three ODIs and three T20Is). Here is the way it works:

Level allocation

• Check match: A victory earns 4 factors for the victorious workforce, whereas a draw earns every workforce two factors.
• White ball matches: Every victory earns two factors for the successful workforce.
• No outcomes, ties or deserted matches: In white ball matches, each groups obtain one level every.
• Complete factors obtainable: With a most of 16 factors on supply within the collection, a workforce should get at the very least 9 factors to win the Ashes.
• Ash preservation rule
  If the collection ends in a tie (e.g. 8-8), the present Ashes holders retain the trophy. This rule utilized to the 2023 version, the place an 8-8 draw allowed Australia to retain the Ashes.

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England’s efficiency within the Ladies’s Ashes

England final received the Ladies’s Ashes within the 2013-14 season. Since then, Australia have dominated the collection, successful outright in 2019 and 2022, whereas the latest encounter in 2023 resulted in an 8-8 draw, permitting Australia to retain the trophy regardless of England’s robust efficiency within the ODIs.. The upcoming collection marks a major change as it should conclude with the Check match on the iconic Melbourne Cricket Floor (MCG), a venue which has not hosted a girls’s Check since 1949.

England’s technique for Ladies’s Ashes 2025

The England workforce might be led by captain Heather Knight and contains key gamers akin to Tammy Beaumont, Nat Sciver-Brunt and quick bowler Kate Cross, who’s recovering from harm however stays essential to their bowling assault.. The workforce confirmed resilience and flexibility, particularly after their efficiency within the final Ashes collection the place they got here again from an early deficit.

The subsequent collection will start with the primary ODI on January 11 on the North Sydney Oval. Then, matches will happen at numerous venues together with Junction Oval and Hobart, earlier than transferring on to T20Is and ending with the Check match on the MCG.

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