The Australian women's cricket team toured England in 2015. The matches against England were played for the Women's Ashes, which since 2013 consists of a multi-format series with points awarded for each of the matches. Two points were awarded for each Twenty20 International (T20I) or One Day International (ODI) win, and four points to the Test winner (compared with six in the previous series) or two points to each team in the event of a Test draw.
The Women's Ashes were held by England before the series but, after winning two ODIs, the Test match and the second T20I, Australia regained the Ashes on 28 August 2015 with one T20I match to play. It was also the first time Australia had won the Ashes in England since 2001, after a draw in 2009 and defeats in the 2005 and 2013 series.
Australia won the ODI match series (2–1) and the sole Test match. England won the T20I match series (2–1). Overall Australia won the Ashes (10 points to 6). Australia's Ellyse Perry scored 264 runs, took 16 wickets and was named the player of the series.
The ODI matches were also part of the 2014–16 ICC Women's Championship.
Squads ODIsTestT20Is Charlotte Edwards (c) Heather Knight (vc) Katherine Brunt Kate Cross Georgia Elwiss Lydia Greenway Rebecca Grundy Jenny Gunn Amy Jones Laura Marsh Nat Sciver Anya Shrubsole Sarah Taylor (wk) Lauren Winfield Meg Lanning (c) Alex Blackwell (vc) Kristen Beams Nicole Bolton Jess Cameron Sarah Coyte Rene Farrell Holly Ferling Alyssa Healy (wk) Jess Jonassen Erin Osborne Ellyse Perry Megan Schutt Elyse Villani Charlotte Edwards (c) Heather Knight (vc) Katherine Brunt Kate Cross Georgia Elwiss Lydia Greenway Rebecca Grundy Jenny Gunn Laura Marsh Nat Sciver Anya Shrubsole Sarah Taylor(wk) Fran Wilson Lauren Winfield Meg Lanning (c) Alex Blackwell (vc) Kristen Beams Nicole Bolton Jess Cameron Sarah Coyte Rene Farrell Holly Ferling Alyssa Healy (wk) Jess Jonassen Erin Osborne Ellyse Perry Megan Schutt Elyse Villani Charlotte Edwards (c) Heather Knight (vc) Katherine Brunt Georgia Elwiss Lydia Greenway Rebecca Grundy Jenny Gunn Danielle Hazell Laura Marsh Nat Sciver Anya Shrubsole Sarah Taylor (wk) Lauren Winfield Danielle Wyatt Meg Lanning (c) Alex Blackwell (vc) Kristen Beams Nicole Bolton Jess Cameron Sarah Coyte Rene Farrell Holly Ferling Alyssa Healy (wk) Jess Jonassen Delissa Kimmince1 Erin Osborne Ellyse Perry Megan Schutt Elyse Villani Grace Harris1 1 Delissa Kimmince was Replaced in the T20I squad by Grace Harris as she was unable to recover from a lower back issue.
ODI series
1st ODI
2nd ODI
3rd ODI
Test series
Only Test
T20I series
1st T20I
2nd T20I
3rd T20I
Results Match Date Result Points won Running total England Australia England Australia ODI series WODI 954 21 July by 4 wickets 2 0 2 0 WODI 955 23 July by 63 runs 0 2 2 2 WODI 956 27* July by 89 runs 0 2 2 4 Only Test WTest 138 11–14 August by 161 runs 0 4 2 8 T20I series WT20I 313 26 August by 7 wickets 2 0 4 8 WT20I 314 28 August by 20 runs 0 2 4 10 WT20I 315 31 August by 5 wickets 2 0 6 10 *Match was originally scheduled on 26 July but due to rain was abandoned and moved to the reserve day (27 July).
Statistics
Batting Most runs PlayerTeamMatchesRunsAverageHighest10050Ellyse Perry 7 264 33.00 78 0 2Meg Lanning 7 249 31.12 104 1 1Lydia Greenway 7 202 33.66 53 0 1Jess Jonassen 7 200 25.00 99 0 2Alex Blackwell 7 177 29.50 58 0 1
Bowling Most wickets PlayerTeamMatchesWicketsRunsAverageBBI45Ellyse Perry 7 16 215 13.43 6/32 0 1Anya Shrubsole 7 13 234 18.00 4/11 2 0Megan Schutt 6 12 172 14.33 4/26 2 0Sarah Coyte 7 10 218 21.80 2/15 0 0Nat Sciver 7 9 158 17.55 4/15 1 0
References
Further reading
External links Series home at ESPN Cricinfo