England vs Australia LIVE: Cricket scorecard and Women’s Ashes updates

As the players begin to come out of the pavilion, a reminder of where we are in this game. Australia lead by 92 runs in their second innings with ten wickets still in hand. They’ll want to press on and set a mammoth total which will allow them a chance to bowl England out.

For Heather Knight’s team, they need to be much better with the ball this morning than they were last night. Victory isn’t out of their grasps but they’ll need three of four wickets in this morning session if they are to wrestle back some momentum.

It’s a pleasant day at the minute in Trent Bridge but that’s definitely the threat of some wet weather as we head into the latter part of the day.

Something to keep an eye on if it does indeed play out, it could certainly affect how both teams play today as they look to get themselves in a position to win the game tomorrow.

Tammy Beaumont believes her historic 208 in the lone Women’s Ashes Test may have been inadvertently aided by being axed from England’s T20 set-up last year.

After breaking Betty Snowball’s 88-year record for the highest score by an England woman in going past 189, Beaumont became her nation’s first double centurion and just the eighth female overall in Tests.

Her epic knock – which helped England to 463 and a 10-run deficit before Australia got their noses in front by closing on 82 without loss to lead by 92 at Trent Bridge – raised the question as to whether Beaumont can slot back into the T20 side after being dropped ahead of the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

While Beaumont was coy at the suggestion, the England opener, who has featured in 99 T20 internationals, admitted being discarded led to her working hard to seek advancements in her batting.

“It’s certainly not been on my mind in the last three or four days, Test match cricket is very different to T20 cricket – even though the England men try to make it look pretty similar,” she joked.

More from ‘Badger’ Beaumont:

Mooney 33 not out – 59 balls, 82 mins. 55.93 SR

Litchfield 41 not out – 55 balls, 82 mins. 74.55 SR

Cross – 4.0 overs, 27 runs, 0 wickets

Ecclestone – 4.0 o, 3 r, 0 w

Tammy Beaumont’s historic 208 underpinned England’s highest-ever Test total against Australia to set up what is effectively a one-innings shootout in this Women’s Ashes series opener.

After breaking Betty Snowball’s 88-year record for the highest score by an England woman in going past 189, Beaumont became her nation’s first double centurion and just the eighth female overall in Tests.

Her epic knock lasted more than eight hours across two days and included 27 fours before she was bowled after missing a sweep at Ashleigh Gardner, last out to abruptly end England’s first-innings on 463.

England lost their last four wickets for just 15 runs as Australia held a lead of 10 at the halfway mark of a contest that starts the multi-format series, which they upped to 92 after closing on 82 without loss to get their noses in front at stumps on day three.

But this one-off Test is still in the balance largely thanks to the excellence of Beaumont, who made 201 in a warm-up against Australia A last week and registered her maiden Test ton on Friday.

Full report from Saturday’s action: