Perry achieves feat never matched by an Aussie male

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In scoring a sensational 91 successful the 2nd Women's Ashes ODI against England astatine the Rose Bowl, Ellyse Perry moved past a fig of idiosyncratic milestones and joined an exclusive cricket club.

She moved past 6000 runs, and became the archetypal Australian, antheral oregon female, to person scored 6000 runs and taken 300 wickets successful planetary cricket.

She is besides the archetypal pistillate to articulation the club, which includes the likes of Imran Khan, Ian Botham, Wasim Akram, Jacques Kallis and Andrew Flintoff, among others.

It was besides the archetypal clip successful her 16-year planetary vocation Perry had been progressive successful 3 partnerships of 50-plus successful the aforesaid ODI.

Perry steadied the Aussie innings earlier being dismissed shy of a century. (Getty)

Batting astatine archetypal drop, Perry was successful the mediate successful conscionable the 2nd implicit aft Phoebe Litchfield was retired lbw to Lauren Bell for seven.

Perry would harvester with Beth Mooney for a 61-run concern for the 3rd wicket, past Ash Gardner for a 56-run basal for the 5th wicket, and an 81-run basal with Annabel Sutherland for the sixth wicket.

Perry's 91 besides saw her determination past 3500 runs successful WODIs, having done truthful successful 131 matches astatine 50.25.

In this Ashes series, Perry has been astatine the crease for astir fractional of Australia's runs.

She besides requires conscionable 4 runs to determination past the 1000-run people against England, against whom she's played 35 matches.

Perry steadied the Australian innings arsenic she has done connected respective occasions, and lone fell to Sophie Ecclestone successful the heavy successful the dying overs chasing speedy runs.

Georgia Wareham past smacked 26 disconnected the last implicit to acceptable England 283 to win.

In response, a stunning period from signifier England batter Natalie Sciver-Brunt astatine amended than a run-a-ball each but got England implicit the line.

Perry falls successful the nineties

Needing 15 runs disconnected the last implicit with the shot successful Jess Jonassen's hands, Sciver-Brunt picked up a azygous with the archetypal ball, earlier Sarah Glenn picked up different disconnected the second. Sciver-Brunt kept England successful it with a bound down quadrate from the 3rd ball.

She wasn't capable to find the bound again though, and the Aussies got location by conscionable 3 runs, retaining the Ashes successful doing so.

The last ODI successful the multi-format women's Ashes is astatine Taunton connected Tuesday nighttime (AEST).

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