[Lord Snooty]

Would've been better with the test match as the last match, seeing as it's the one with the most points on offer. England then would've gone into the game well ahead on points with the Aussies knowing only a victory would win them the Ashes.

[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

Yeah, this is actually the first time for a decade they've put the Test first; in Australia eighteen months ago it was the final match, and in other series they've done it between the two white-ball rubbers. I don't know if the hectic schedule this summer is to blame, but it would be annoying if they stuck the biggest game first purely because it let them use Trent Bridge, as appealing as it may have been for commercial and prestige reasons.

[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

The lasses win their first Test for over a decade - since beating Australia in January 2014 - with an absolute shellacking of South Africa in Bloemfontein by 286 runs. It's the third-biggest win in female Test history, just twelve months after England sank to the worst-ever defeat in Mumbai this time last year, but not without controversy: in a match played without DRS (due to Cricket South Africa being unable to justify the expense) the hosts were on the receiving end of several poor umpiring decisions, culminating in their batter Annerie Dercksen being dismissed this afternoon after England seemingly leaned on the umpires to make a discretionary review of a clean catch that they'd initially adjudged not to have come off the bat.

But a great win nevertheless, and though Dercksen's wicket may have precipitated the South African collapse, they were still second-best over the three days.

[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

January

Saturday 11th - 1st ODI vs Australia, Sydney (Australia win by 4 wickets)
Monday 13th - 2nd ODI vs Australia, Melbourne (Australia win by 21 runs)
Thursday 16th - 3rd ODI vs Australia, Hobart (Australia win by 86 runs)
Monday 20th - 1st T20I vs Australia, Sydney (Australia win by 57 runs)
Thursday 23rd - 2nd T20I vs Australia, Canberra - 08:40
Saturday 25th - 3rd T20I vs Australia, Adelaide - 08:10
Thursday 30th - 1st Test vs Australia, Melbourne - 03:30

[themaclad]

Once played a game against an all women's side years ago, in the opposition was this lass, she was out first ball, caught behind umpire didn't give it and she didn't walk.

Just for fairness I got a first baller as well

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_Hodges