Australia's skipper Ellyse Perry led her team from the bat after the visitors ended up losing both openers in the first session of the one-off Test match of the Women's Ashes 2023 series at the Trent Bridge on Thursday.
After two Tests against Pakistan in 2018, in which he scored 81 runs across four innings, with a best of 43, he did not feature in red-ball cricket till the 2019 Ashes series in England.
Most Australian players would like some days of rest before the second Ashes Test but that may not be the case with two of the side's most consistent batters. Australia won the first Ashes Test without much contribution from this prolific pair as they could score only 35 runs among them.
Former Australian pacer Peter Allan passed away at the age of 87 on Thursday. He featured in a single Test match for Australia and he is one out of three players to have taken 10 wickets in a Sheffield Shield innings.
Australia Women's team skipper Alyssa Healy won the toss and opted to bat in the one-off Test match of the Women's Ashes 2023 series at the Trent Bridge on Thursday.
"The whole world praises PM Modi but Congress calls him a snake, illiterate, chaiwala. Today there is an economic slowdown in America, Europe, and Australia but India's economy is standing strong," BJP national president said in Jharkhand.
England head coach Brendon McCullum feels the first Ashes Test "validated" his team's aggressive strategy and expects his side to "go a little harder" in the second Test at Lord's next week.
Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting hit out at Ollie Robinson after his name was drawn into an Ashes sledging argument that ignited in the first Test at Edgbaston and offered some words of advice to the England pacer.