2013–14 Women's Ashes series
# 2013–14 Women's Ashes series

The England women's cricket team toured Australia during the 2013–14 season, where they successfully defended The Women's Ashes.

The series was played five months after the Australian women's 2013 tour of England, and followed the men's 2013–14 Ashes series. It retained the same point format adopted for the 2013 Women's Ashes: the Ashes were decided based on a points system, taking account not only of the one Test match, but also the results of limited-overs games. Six points are awarded for a Test victory (two points to each side in the event of a draw), and two points for a victory in any of the WODIs and WT20I games.

The only Test match of the tour took place on 10–13 January at Perth. England won the match by 61 runs. Three One Day Internationals were played: the first and second at Melbourne on 19 and 23 January were won by England and Australia respectively, and the third at Hobart on 26 January, was won by Australia. Three Twenty20 matches were also played, scheduled as "double-headed" events alongside the men's T20 matches between Australia and England. England won the first T20 at Hobart on 29 January, giving them an unassailable 10–4 points lead in the series, and thus retaining the Women's Ashes. The final two T20 matches played on 31 January and 2 February, at Melbourne and Sydney respectively were both won by Australia. The three T20s were double-headers along with men's T20 Matches.

In-between tourists also played a match against the Australia A Women on 6–7 January at Floreat Park Oval, Perth, which was drawn. They also played a 50-overs limited over warm-up against Cricket Australia Chairman's Women's XI on 19 January at Junction Oval, Melbourne, won by CA Women's XI by 2 wickets.

The final points total was Australia 8, England 10.

## Test Match

* 10 – 13 January 2014 Scorecard
* England won by 61 runs WACA Ground, Perth Umpires: Ian Lock and Greg Davidson Player of the match: Ellyse Perry (Aus)
* England won the toss and elected to bat.

## WODI series

### 1st WODI

* 19 January 2014 10:00 Scorecard

| Australia 3/209 (50 overs) | v | England 3/210 (46.5 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Alex Blackwell 82 (121) Jenny Gunn 1/30 (10 overs) | | Lydia Greenway 69* (94) Holly Ferling 1/29 (7 overs) |

* England won by 7 wickets Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Umpires: Shawn Craig and Geoff Joshua Player of the match: Lydia Greenway (Eng)
* Australia won the toss and elected to bat.

### 2nd WODI

* 23 January 2014 14:20 Scorecard

| Australia 7/266 (50 overs) | v | England 240 (46.2 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Nicole Bolton 124 (152) Natalie Sciver 2/23 (6 overs) | | Sarah Taylor 63 (75) Erin Osborne 3/49 (8.2 overs) |

* Australia won by 26 runs Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Umpires: Ashley Barrow and Greg Davidson Player of the match: Nicole Bolton (Aus)
* Australia won the toss and elected to bat

### 3rd WODI

* 26 January 2014 13:00 Scorecard

| England 4/268 (50 overs) | v | Australia 6/269 (49.3 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Sarah Taylor 64 (57) Jess Jonassen 1/50 (10 overs) | | Ellyse Perry 90* (95) Jenny Gunn 3/56 (10 overs) |

* Australia won by 4 wickets Bellerive Oval, Hobart Umpires: Tony Ward and Tony Wilds Player of the match: Ellyse Perry (Aus)
* England won the toss and elected to bat

## WT20I series

### 1st WT20I

* 29 January 2014 14:00 Scorecard

| Australia 3/150 (20 overs) | v | England 1/151 (17.5 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Meg Lanning 78* (54) Danielle Hazell 1/25 (4 overs) | | Charlotte Edwards 92* (59) Jess Jonassen 1/29 (3 overs) |

* England won by 9 wickets Bellerive Oval, Hobart Umpires: Greg Davidson and Sam Nogajski Player of the match: Charlotte Edwards (Eng)
* Australia won the toss and elected to bat

### 2nd WT20I

* 31 January 2014 14:45 Scorecard

| England 6/98 (20 overs) | v | Australia 3/99 (15.1 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Charlotte Edwards 28 (34) Holly Ferling 2/14 (3 overs) | | Meg Lanning 42 (28) Arran Brindle 1/9 (2 overs) |

* Australia won by 7 wickets Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Umpires: Shawn Craig and Tony Ward Player of the match: Holly Ferling (Aus)
* Australia won the toss and elected to field

### 3rd WT20I

* 2 February 2014 14:45 Scorecard

| England 8/101 (20 overs) | v | Australia 3/102 (18.3 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Natalie Sciver 28 (33) Rene Farrell 4/15 (3 overs) | | Elyse Villani 36* (47) Georgia Elwiss 1/12 (3 overs) |

* Australia won by 7 wickets Stadium Australia, Sydney Umpires: Damien Mealey (Aus) and Tony Wilds (Aus) Player of the match: Rene Farrell (Aus)
* Australia won the toss and elected to field.

## Results

| Match | Date | Result | Points won | Points won | Running total | Running total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Match | Date | Result | Australia | England | Australia | England |
| Only Test |||||||
| WTest 135 | 10–13 January | England by 61 runs | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| ODI series |||||||
| WODI 902 | 19 January | England by 7 wickets | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| WODI 905 | 23 January | Australia by 26 runs | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| WODI 907 | 26 January | Australia by 4 wickets | 2 | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| T20I series |||||||
| WT20I 234 | 29 January | England by 9 wickets | 0 | 2 | 4 | 10 |
| WT20I 235 | 31 January | Australia by 7 wickets | 2 | 0 | 6 | 10 |
| WT20I 236 | 2 February | Australia by 7 wickets | 2 | 0 | 8 | 10 |

## Statistics

### Batting

**Most runs**

| Player | Matches | Runs | Average | Highest |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Ellyse Perry | 7 | 286 | 95.33 | 90* |
| Charlotte Edwards | 7 | 280 | 40.00 | 92* |
| Arran Brindle | 7 | 244 | 61.00 | 68 |
| Alex Blackwell | 7 | 221 | 44.20 | 82* |
| Meg Lanning | 7 | 221 | 31.57 | 78* |

### Bowling

**Most wickets**

| Player | Matches | Wickets | Runs | Average | BBI |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Rene Farrell | 7 | 12 | 252 | 21.00 | 7/77 |
| Ellyse Perry | 7 | 12 | 306 | 25.50 | 8/79 |
| Anya Shrubsole | 4 | 10 | 268 | 26.80 | 7/99 |
| Erin Osborne | 7 | 8 | 247 | 30.87 | 3/49 |
| Jenny Gunn | 6 | 7 | 221 | 31.57 | 3/27 |
