Women's Ashes T20Is 2023: All you need to know

Following the Women's Ashes Test at Trent Bridge, England and Australia will contest three T20Is. Find out start times, team news, weather forecasts, odds, TV and streaming information and more…

What is it?

A three-match T20I series as part of the 2023 Women's Ashes.

What's the schedule?

July 1: 1st T20I – Edgbaston (6.35pm local time)

July 5: 2nd T20I – The Oval (6pm local time)

July 8: 3rd T20I – Lord's (6.35pm local time)

What's the format of the Women's Ashes?

Unlike the Men's Ashes, this is a multi-format series, consisting of one Test, three ODIs and three T20Is.

Points are awarded for each victory, with the team with the most points at the end lifting the trophy.

Four points are awarded for winning the Test match while white-ball victories are worth two points each.

Australia have held the Women's Ashes since 2015.  

^{Australia are the reigning T20 world champions [Mike Hewitt/Getty Images]}

What's happened so far?

The Women's Ashes began with a five-day Test match at Trent Bridge, which Australia won by 89 runs to take a 4-0 lead.

Tammy Beaumont became the first English woman to score 200 runs in a Test match while Sophie Ecclestone (England) and Ash Gardner (Australia) dominated with the ball, taking 10 and 12 wickets apiece.

Short of weather interventions, England must now win five of the six white-ball matches to reclaim the Women's Ashes, starting with the T20I leg. However, Australia are the reigning T20 world champions and have only lost six T20Is in the past five years (from 65 matches).

Who's involved?

Beaumont, Lauren Filer and Emma Lamb, who all featured at Trent Bridge, and Alice Davidson-Richards drop out of the squad while Maia Bouchier, Freya Davies, Charlie Dean, Sarah Glenn, and Lauren Winfield-Hill have been added to England's ranks.

Alice Capsey, who was named in the initial Test squad before being selected for England A, has been restored to the main squad.

Dani Gibson, a reserve player for the 2023 Women's T20 World Cup, is also in the 16-strong group and could make her international debut after missing out during the Test. Gibson has scored 796 runs at a strike rate of 127.15 in 73 T20s.

Heather Knight will captain England once again, with Nat Sciver-Brunt as her deputy.

Australia named the same squad for all three formats.

Phoebe Litchfield is the only member of the 14-strong group who wasn't a member of Australia's 2023 T20 World Cup-winning cohort while Meg Lanning (medical reasons) and Heather Graham (not selected) are the absentees from South Africa.

Alyssa Healy is captaining Australia in Lanning's absence, with Tahlia McGrath serving as her deputy.

England squad: Heather Knight, Nat Sciver-Brunt, Lauren Bell, Maia Bouchier, Alice Capsey, Kate Cross, Freya Davies, Charlie Dean, Sophia Dunkley, Sophie Ecclestone, Dani Gibson, Sarah Glenn, Amy Jones, Issy Wong, Lauren Winfield-Hill, Danni Wyatt

Australia squad: Alyssa Healy, Tahlia McGrath, Darcie Brown, Ashleigh Gardner, Kim Garth, Grace Harris, Jess Jonassen, Alana King, Phoebe Litchfield, Beth Mooney, Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt, Annabel Sutherland, Georgia Wareham

^{Issy Wong has a point to prove after missing out on England's T20 World Cup squad [Gareth Copley/Getty Images]}

What's the weather forecast?

Conditions are expected to be clear for all three matches, with daytime temperatures peaking around 20 degrees Celsius at Edgbaston and The Oval and climbing as high as 25 degrees Celsius at Lord's.

What are the odds?

Australia are the clear favourites to win the Women's Ashes, with odds of 2/9. An England win is available at 33/1.

Where to watch?

All three T20Is will be live on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Cricket while ball-by-ball commentary will be available on Test Match Special.

In Australia, the Women's Ashes will be live on Fox Cricket as well as available to stream on Kayo and 9 Now.