{"id":311737,"date":"2023-06-26T01:31:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T01:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=311737"},"modified":"2023-06-26T02:58:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T02:58:56","slug":"stand-in-skipper-breaks-drought-with-incredible-knock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=311737","title":{"rendered":"Stand-in skipper breaks drought with incredible knock"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia's stand-in skipper Alyssa Healy<\/a> stood tall to break a run of Test<\/a> ducks and steer the visitors to a likely winning lead at Trent Bridge.<\/p>\n

Healy \ufeffscored a pair in her last Test match in 2022, and was again dismissed for nought in the first innings of this Ashes match<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She demoted herself down the order to No.8, and produced a classy 50 to guide the Aussies to 257 in the second innings, and they now look certain of victory ahead of day five.<\/p>\n

SCORECARD:<\/strong> Women's \ufeffAshes Test<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

READ MORE:<\/strong> Aussies poised to win Ashes after devastating spell<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

READ MORE:<\/strong> How axed Blues star let Origin call-up slip<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\ufeffHealy becomes only the second female player – alongside England's Sarah Taylor – to reach 5000 international runs as a wicketkeeper.<\/p>\n

She's captaining the side in the absence of Meg Lanning, who ruled herself out of this Ashes series due to an undisclosed medical issue.<\/p>\n

\ufeffWatch the day five highlights package in the video player above!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Gardner<\/p>\n

Every ball of the Women's Ashes will be live, free and exclusive on<\/strong><\/em> 9Now<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, and if you miss any of the action you can find full highlights and exclusive replays after every day's play<\/strong><\/em> here<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

YOUNG GUN GOES CHEAP<\/h3>\n

\ufeffAfter an impressive 61 in the first innings, Aussie young gun Tahlia McGrath was out for one in the second.<\/p>\n

\"England<\/p>\n

SPINNER'S INCREDIBLE STATS<\/h3>\n

\ufeffEngland spin bowler Sophie Ecclestone claimed five wickets in both innings to record an impressive 10 for the match.<\/p>\n

\"England<\/p>\n

DEBUTANT DOES IT AGAIN<\/h3>\n

England debutant Lauren Filer is having an Ashes Test to remember.<\/p>\n

She has dismissed Aussie superstar Ellyse Perry in both innings, bowling her in the second after having her caught in the first.\ufeff<\/p>\n

\"England<\/p>\n

EVERY DAY 4 WICKET<\/h3>\n

There were lots of them… and you can watch every one here!\ufeff<\/p>\n

\"Every<\/p>\n

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Australia's stand-in skipper Alyssa Healy stood tall to break a run of Test ducks and steer the visitors to a likely winning lead at Trent […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":311739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311737"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311749,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311737\/revisions\/311749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/311739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}