Georgia Elwiss continued her fine form with an impressive all-round display to help England Women’s Academy bounce back from yesterday’s defeat to Australia Women Shooting Stars with a 28-run victory at the International Cricket Council Academy in Dubai.
The 23-year-old followed up yesterday’s century with an unbeaten 65 off 42 balls, including nine fours and one maximum, before taking three wickets as EWA levelled the four-match 50-over series.
Skipper Tammy Beaumont, Evelyn Jones and Fran Wilson, England's top three, also struck fifties to lift EWA to 268 for nine.
Beaumont and Jones set the tone with an impressive opening stand of 118 which Wilson and Elwiss built on courtesy of a fourth-wicket alliance of 114.
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Elwiss returned figures of 3-46 from eight overs to help dismiss the Shooting Stars for 240, an innings which included three run-outs.
Wilson told ecb.co.uk:“We are really happy. It was a really good team performance, everyone is playing really well. We felt we should have probably won yesterday, so today it was really important to go out and put it right.”
On her important stand with Elwiss, she added: “It was good. It was nice batting with Georgia, she is going really well at the moment. It is really nice to get out in the middle, it is a nice pitch, so I was just making the most of it.
“We train together. It was really nice. We have had a good few partnerships, we bat really well together.”
The third 50-over match takes place on Monday.