England's hopes of levelling the Women's Ashes slipped away at the Junction Oval in Melbourne as they fell short of chasing 181 in a thrilling finish.

England already playing catch up in the Womens Ashes after losing the first two points of the series in the first of three ODIs; multi-format series, which also features three T20s and one Test, continues in Melbourne on Monday night;

England will reflect on a missed opportunity as Australia strengthened their Ashes control with a second successive one-day international victory. Amy Jones, unbeaten on 47, failed to run from a free hit at the end of the 48th over,

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Australia 180 (Perry 60, Ecclestone 4-35, Capsey 3-22) against England England found inspiration from an unlikely source with Alice Capsey producing a career-best performance with the ball to spark a major Australia collapse with the help of Sophie Ecclestone,