England women's cricket team in Australia in 2002–03

English women's cricket team in Australia in 2002–03
	Australia	England
Dates	12 – 25 February 2003
Captains	Belinda Clark	Clare Connor
Test series
Result	Australia won the 2-match series 1–0
Most runs	Lisa Sthalekar (144)	Charlotte Edwards (140)
Most wickets	Cathryn Fitzpatrick (14)	Lucy Pearson (15)
Player of the series	Cathryn Fitzpatrick (Aus)

The English women's cricket team toured Australia in February 2003, where Australia were defending the Women's Ashes. The two sides had just played in a ODI quadrangular tournament in New Zealand, the 2002–03 World Series of Women's Cricket, which was won by Australia.[1] Australia won the first test by five wickets, whilst the second test was drawn after being heavily affected by rain.[2] Australia therefore retained the Ashes.

Squads

Australia[3]	England[4]
Belinda Clark (c) Alex Blackwell Kris Britt Cathryn Fitzpatrick Michelle Goszko Julie Hayes Mel Jones Terry McGregor Julia Price (wk) Karen Rolton Lisa Sthalekar Emma Twining	Clare Connor (c) Sarah Collyer Charlotte Edwards Lydia Greenway Laura Harper Dawn Holden Kathryn Leng Laura Newton Lucy Pearson Nicky Shaw Laura Spragg Clare Taylor Claire Taylor (wk) Arran Thompson

Tour matches

2-day match: Australia Under-23s v England

12–13 February 2003 Scorecard

England	v	Australia Under-23s
202 (94.4 overs) Lydia Greenway 88 (225) Lauren Ebsary 4/35 (17 overs)		131 (68.3 overs) Ingrid Noack 50 (190) Laura Harper 5/30 (19 overs)
44/2 (19.4 overs) Kathryn Leng 25* (50) Belinda Matheson 1/5 (1.4 overs)

Match drawn Allan Border Field, Brisbane Umpires: Greg Cubit (Aus) and Tim Laycock (Aus)

• England Women won the toss and elected to field.

Test series

1st Test

15 – 17 February 2003 Scorecard

England	v	Australia
124 (108.3 overs) Sarah Collyer 29 (133) Cathryn Fitzpatrick 4/32 (29.3 overs)		78 (41.4 overs) Mel Jones 22 (67) Lucy Pearson 4/31 (15 overs)
92 (67.3 overs) Charlotte Edwards 27 (51) Cathryn Fitzpatrick 4/28 (20 overs)		139/5 (68 overs) Belinda Clark 47 (115) Sarah Collyer 2/17 (25 overs)

Australia Women won by 5 wickets The Gabba, Brisbane Umpires: Bruce Oxenford (Aus) and Norm McNamara (Aus) Player of the match: Cathryn Fitzpatrick (Aus)

• Australia Women won the toss and elected to field.
• Alex Blackwell, Emma Liddell, Lisa Sthalekar (Aus) and Lydia Greenway (Eng) all made their WTest debuts.

2nd Test

22 – 25 February 2003 Scorecard

Australia	v	England
134 (67.1 overs) Mel Jones 58 (124) Lucy Pearson 7/51 (25 overs)		187 (115.4 overs) Claire Taylor 48 (123) Julie Hayes 3/32 (21.4 overs)
259/7d (144 overs) Lisa Sthalekar 120* (329) Lucy Pearson 4/56 (33 overs)		133/6 (83 overs) Charlotte Edwards 67 (209) Cathryn Fitzpatrick 4/15 (19 overs)

Match drawn Bankstown Oval, Sydney Umpires: Nick Fowler (Aus) and Shane Reed (Aus) Player of the match: Lucy Pearson (Aus)

• England Women won the toss and elected to field.
• Kris Britt (Aus) made their WTest debut.

See also

• 2002–03 World Series of Women's Cricket

References

1. "World Series of Women's Cricket 2002/03". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
2. "England Women tour of Australia 2002/03". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
3. "Four players in line to debut for Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars in first Ashes Test in Brisbane". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
4. Engel, Matthew, ed. (2004). Wisden Cricketer's Almanac 2004. Alton, Hampshire: John Wisden & Co Ltd. p. 1329. ISBN 0-947766-83-9.

External links

• England Women tour of Australia 2002/03 from Cricinfo