Day 3 of the one-off Women’s Ashes 2023 noticed Tammy Beaumont breaking two big information in Test cricket on Saturday, June 24. The English opener scored 208 off 331 to enter historical past books as the primary England ladies’s participant to attain a double hundred in red-ball cricket.
Beaumont, 32, turned the one second cricketer on this planet to attain a century throughout all three codecs on Day 2 after which dominated Day 3 as England virtually surpassed Australia’s first innings whole of 473 runs. She dealer Betty Snowball’s well-known 88-year-old record to drag off the best particular person rating for England in Tests.
After Day 3’s play, Beaumont revealed that she virtually give up cricket but modified her mindset to remain constructive as doable. She misplaced her place in England’s ladies’s T20I final yr, after her 99th cap, but highlighted the distinction between Test cricket and T20 video games.
“I thought, you know what? There’s life in the old girl yet. I’m only 32,” Beaumont advised Sky Sports. “So I worked hard, and changed my mindset to being as positive as possible, and get back to the Tammy Beaumont of a couple of years ago.”
“It’s certainly not been on my mind the last three or four days. Test-match cricket is very different from T20 cricket, even though the England men try to make it look pretty similar. But I think how I’ve worked this winter on my game the whole way around, that probably has had an impact on my trying to find that motivation to get better and to improve.”
Despite record innings from Beaumont, England’s innings’ collapsed on 463 runs. Natalie Sciver-Brunt and debutant Danielle Wyatt scored essential runs for England whereas younger all-rounder Ashleigh Gardner took 4 wickets for Australia. With the 10-run lead, Australian openers Pheobe Litchfield and Beth Mooney remained unbeaten on Day 3 with an 82/0 whole to clinch a vital 92-run lead ahead of the remaining two days.
