{"id":25424,"date":"2025-01-20T17:19:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T11:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/?p=25424"},"modified":"2025-01-20T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T11:50:00","slug":"sophie-dunkley-smashes-second-fastest-t20i-fifty-womens-ashes-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/news\/sophie-dunkley-smashes-second-fastest-t20i-fifty-womens-ashes-2025-25424\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Dunkley smashes second fastest T20I fifty: Women&#8217;s Ashes 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The recently-concluded first T20I of the Women\u2019s Ashes is a high-scoring affair. England won the toss and elected to bowl first at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG). However, England\u2019s poor fielding and Australia\u2019s good efforts with the bat meant that the home side, AUS amassed 198\/7. For the Green Brigade, Beth Mooney (75) was the only batter to score a fifty.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In reply, the Three Lions had a poor start as they lost the wickets of Maia Bouchier and Danni Wyatt-Hodge. Both batters scored a duck. However, Sophia Dunkley, who came to bat at number three, hit a 24-ball fifty. She completed the landmark in the 10th over of the second innings. The right-hander hit five fours and four sixes to reach the landmark.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A 24-ball fifty for Sophia Dunkley \ud83d\udd25<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/women?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#women<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cricket?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#cricket<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AUSvENG?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AUSvENG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ashes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Ashes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SophiaDunkley?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SophiaDunkley<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CricketTwitter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CricketTwitter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WomenCricket?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#WomenCricket<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wTdpl8YcdD\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/wTdpl8YcdD<\/a><\/p>&mdash; WomenCricket.com (@WomenCricketHQ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WomenCricketHQ\/status\/1881296882502349102?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 20, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>The quick fifty for England Women\u2019s in T20Is was hit by Alice Capsey (21 balls vs Ireland in 2023). Notably, Dunkley replaced Capsey for the ongoing match in the playing XI.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Fastest fifty by England Women in T20I<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the data in a table format:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Player<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Balls Faced<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Opponent<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Venue<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Year<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Alice Capsey<\/td><td>21<\/td><td>IRE<\/td><td>Paarl<\/td><td>2023<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Danni Wyatt<\/td><td>24<\/td><td>IND<\/td><td>Mumbai(BS)<\/td><td>2018<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Nat Sciver-Brunt<\/td><td>24<\/td><td>IND<\/td><td>Northampton<\/td><td>2021<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Bryony Smith<\/td><td>24<\/td><td>IRE<\/td><td>Dublin<\/td><td>2024<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Sophia Dunkley<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>24<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>AUS<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Sydney<\/strong><\/td><td>2025<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Sophia Dunkley\u2019s efforts goes in vain<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite Dunkley\u2019s efforts, the 2009 T20 World Cup winners fell short by 57 runs in the first T20I against Australia. They were bowled out for 141 runs, chasing 199 runs to win. The team didn\u2019t win a single match during the three-match ODI series and are now lagging behind as far as the Women\u2019s Ashes are concerned. After losing ODI series 0-3, the European side is trailing by 0-1 in the three-match T20I series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recently-concluded first T20I of the Women\u2019s Ashes is a high-scoring affair. England won the toss and elected to bowl first at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG). However, England\u2019s poor fielding and Australia\u2019s good efforts with the bat meant that the home side, AUS amassed 198\/7. For the Green Brigade, Beth Mooney (75) was the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-cricket"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Sophia-Dunkley-1.jpg",1024,490,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Sophia-Dunkley-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Sophia-Dunkley-1-300x144.jpg",300,144,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Sophia-Dunkley-1-768x368.jpg",768,368,true],"large":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Sophia-Dunkley-1.jpg",788,377,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Sophia-Dunkley-1.jpg",1024,490,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Sophia-Dunkley-1.jpg",1024,490,false],"bunyad-small":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Sophia-Dunkley-1-150x72.jpg",150,72,true],"bunyad-medium":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Sophia-Dunkley-1-450x215.jpg",450,215,true],"bunyad-full":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Sophia-Dunkley-1.jpg",1024,490,false],"bunyad-viewport":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Sophia-Dunkley-1.jpg",1024,490,false],"bunyad-768":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Sophia-Dunkley-1-768x368.jpg",768,368,true],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Sophia-Dunkley-1-640x490.jpg",640,490,true],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Sophia-Dunkley-1-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Sophia-Dunkley-1-150x72.jpg",150,72,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"UC Team","author_link":"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/author\/uc-team\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The recently-concluded first T20I of the Women\u2019s Ashes is a high-scoring affair. 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