Two needed off five, with a record crowd watching on at Lord’s. All-rounder Danielle Gibson, just 22 years of age, is on strike for her first ball in her debut series for England, nerves surely there, but the scene not unfamiliar. She has already spent two seasons calling this place home for London Spirit in the Hundred.
Out comes the ball from Jess Jonassen, as does a reverse-sweep from Gibson, the boundary sealing a 2-1 T20 international series win for England in the Women’s Ashes. The player of the match is Alice Capsey, though, the teenager having earlier blitzed 46 off 23 balls. She made a half-century on this ground for Oval Invincibles two years ago as a 16 year old: a match-winning Ashes knock hasn’t come out of nowhere.
