Gardner, Beaumont and Ecclestone dazzle in fastest-scoring women's Test of all time
Gardner's fourth-innings and match figures were both the second-best in all women's Tests
Sampath Bandarupalli
26-Jun-2023
Ashleigh Gardner became the second woman to take eight wickets in a Test innings • Getty Images
21 Test match wins for Australia women, the most by any team in this format, going one ahead of England's 20 wins. The Nottingham Test was also the first Women's Test with a result since Australia defeated England in 2015. The six previous Tests in this period had ended in draws.
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1371 Total runs scored by England and Australia at Trent Bridge, the highest aggregate in a women's Test, surpassing the 1143 runs between England and Australia in 1998 in Guilford. The scoring rate in this match was 3.67, the highest for any of the 145 Women's Tests played to date.
8 for 66 Ashleigh Gardner's bowling figures in England's second innings. These are the second-best bowling figures in Women's Tests, behind only Neetu David's 8 for 53 in 1994, also against England, in Jamshedpur.
12 Wickets for Gardner in the Nottingham Test, including the four in the first innings. Only one player had picked up 12 or more wickets in a Women's Test before Gardner - Pakistan's Shaiza Khan, who had match figures of 13 for 226 against West Indies in 2004 in Karachi.
1 Sophie Ecclestone and Gardner recorded the first-ever instance of two bowlers claiming ten-plus wickets in the same Women's Test. The duo had three five-wicket hauls between them, the joint-most for a Women's Test, alongside the 1934 Brisbane Test between Australia and England, which was the first-ever match in the format.
305 England's second-innings total against India in the 2006 Taunton Test, the highest women's Test total in a defeat until the 463 all out by England in Nottingham. In fact, only one other team had aggregated 450-plus runs in a women's Test and ended up losing - New Zealand's 468 runs in the 1969 Christchurch Test against Australia.
230 Runs aggregated by Tammy Beaumont in Nottingham, the second-highest match aggregate for a batter in Women's Tests, behind only Kiran Baluch's 242 runs against West Indies in 2004.
1 Beaumont's 208 was the first-ever double-century for England in Women's Tests and the fifth-highest individual score in the format. Before Beaumont, no player had aggregated even 150 runs in a losing cause in a Women's Test match.
4 Players with five-wicket hauls in both innings of a Women's Test match, before Ecclestone in Nottingham. Ecclestone's ten-wicket match haul was the first in women's Tests to end up on the losing side.
Sampath Bandarupalli is a statistician at ESPNcricinfo