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Moments: Heather Knight has been clear all summer about the need to recognise them, seize them, even learn to relax in them, the theory being that while the Australian behemoth might be impossible to go stride for stride with over the course of a series, by picking their battles and…

The tourists played three specialist slow bowlers to beat England, learning a lesson from their male counterparts in 2005

Questionable calls from captain Alyssa Healy and uncharacteristic mistakes in the field leave intriguing Ashes Test in the balance

Australia 82-0, lead England by 92 runs: Beaumont became her nation’s first double centurion and just the eighth female overall in Tests

Beaumont became her nation’s first double centurion and just the eighth female overall in Tests.

Tammy Beaumont set an England Test record with her double-century that took England to within 10 of Australia’s first-innings total before the tourists’ openers extended their lead to close on 82 for 0

The opener broke an 88-year record for the highest Test score by an England woman.

England 218/2, trail Australia by 255: Beaumont rode her luck but a fine 100 not out lifted the hosts at stumps

Beaumont rode her luck but a fine 100 not out lifted England to 218 for two at stumps,