Moments: Heather Knight has been clear all summer about the need to recognise them, seize them, even learn to relax in them, the theory being that while the Australian behemoth might be impossible to go stride for stride with over the course of a series, by picking their battles and timing their strikes, England might just be able to keep pace.
In Southampton yesterday, though, England ran out of moments, of time and, most crucially, of balls, to leave Nat Sciver-Brunt stranded on a quite magnificent 111, the tourists victors in this second ODI by just three runs and the Ashes, finally, gone.
