Women’s Ashes Test: England chase 268 against Australia on final day – live

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Time to catch up on the required reading before play begins. First up, here’s Geoff Lemon on Alyssa Healy and that important captain’s knock.

Preamble

Probably my favourite thing about Test cricket is that a match can truly be poised like no other sport. We’ve been begging for five day Tests for women for what feels like forever and finally our wish has been granted and hasn’t it delivered? There could be no better advertisement for the game than what we have just witnessed over the last four days. I’m having a looking at today’s weather forecast at Trent Bridge and it looks pretty good – a small chance of rain, but it doesn’t seem like anything that will stop us from getting a result – if the Met Office is to be believed.

Yesterday’s play had more twists and turns than an episode of Black Mirror – can today deliver more of the same? I can’t wait to find out! Alyssa Healy had looked below her best – her duck in the first innings and some captaincy decisions that let her inexperience at this level show marred her performance, but she really stood up when she came out to bat yesterday. Her 50 was much needed and although she’ll be disappointed it wasn’t more, she gave her team hope and a platform to build from to fight their way back into the match.

Although Australia appear to be in a stronger position, England are not out of this either. There is time enough for them to score these remaining runs and pull off an extraordinary win. As I said, there’s nothing like a perfectly poised match. Let’s get into it!