Following her crucial unbeaten century, Tammy Beaumont described the moment she reached three figures as something she had “dreamt of since 2005”, as she became just the second England women’s player to score a hundred in all three formats of the sport.
Faced with hauling in Australia’s first-innings total of 473, Beaumont, 32, brought up her ton in the penultimate over of the day as she guided England to the close at 218 for two.
