The 2023 Women's Ashes series (officially the Metro Bank Women's Ashes Series for sponsorship reasons) was a cricket series which took place in England in June and July 2023 as the 2023 edition of

the Women's Ashes The Women's Ashes is the perpetual trophy in women's international cricket series between England and Australia. The name derives from the historic precedent of the Ashes in male cricket and, until 2013, was similarly decided exclusively on the ...

. For the series,

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and

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faced each other in one

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, three

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(ODI) and three

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(T20I) matches. The ODI series formed part of the 2022–2025 ICC Women's Championship tournament. A points-based system was used across all three formats of the tour to determine the winner of the Ashes series. The Test match at

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was the first ever women's Test in England and second overall to be scheduled for five days of play. Australia were the defending champions, having won the 2021–22 Women's Ashes series 12–4. Australia won the only Test match by 89 runs. It was the first women's Test match to not end in a draw since 2015, breaking a streak of six consecutive drawn Tests. Australia also won the first T20I by four wickets, which meant that England needed to win all five of the remaining matches in the series in order to regain the Ashes. England won the second and third matches to claim the T20I leg of the series 2–1. This was the first T20I series defeat for Australia since the 2017–18 Ashes series. England levelled the Ashes points tally by winning the first ODI by two wickets. Australia won the second ODI by just three runs to retain the Ashes, despite an unbeaten century by Nat Sciver-Brunt. Sciver-Brunt scored a second consecutive century in the third ODI, which England won by 69 runs. England won the ODI series 2–1, inflicting Australia's first ODI series defeat since 2013. The Ashes series ended as a draw, with both teams earning eight points.

Squads

On 27 May 2023, Australia's

Meg Lanning Meghann Moira Lanning (born 25 March 1992) is an Australian cricketer who currently Captain (cricket), captains the Australia national women's cricket team, national women's team. She has been a member of six successful world championship camp ...

was ruled out of tour due to medical reasons. In her absence,

Alyssa Healy Alyssa Jean Healy (born 24 March 1990) is an Australian cricketer who plays for the Australian women's national team and New South Wales in domestic cricket, as well as the Sydney Sixers in the WBBL. She made her international debut in Februa ...

was named as Australia's captain and

Tahlia McGrath Tahlia May McGrath (born 10 November 1995) is an Australian cricketer. She made her Women's One Day International cricket (WODI) debut against South Africa on 27 November 2016. She made her women's Test debut in The Women's Ashes in November 2 ...

was named as the vice-captain for the tour. On 20 June 2023, both

Alice Capsey Alice Rose Capsey (born 11 August 2004) is an English cricketer who currently plays for Surrey, South East Stars, Oval Invincibles, Delhi Capitals and Melbourne Stars. An all-rounder, she is a right-handed batter and right-arm off break bowler ...

and

Alice Davidson-Richards Alice Natica Davidson-Richards (born 29 May 1994) is an English cricketer who plays for Kent, South East Stars and Northern Superchargers. A right-handed batter and right-arm pace bowler, she made her county debut for Kent in 2010. She made her d ...

were removed from England's Test squad to enable them to play for England A.

Tour matches

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Only Test

T20I series

1st T20I

2nd T20I

3rd T20I

ODI series

1st ODI

2nd ODI

3rd ODI

Notes

References

External links

Series home at ESPNcricinfo
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2023 in women's cricket The Women's Ashes

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2022–25 ICC Women's Championship