Clinical Australia complete undefeated Ashes summer

Australia have completed a dominant Ashes campaign with an emphatic eight-wicket victory in the final ODI at Junction Oval.

With the Aussies out to complete a winless summer for their Ashes rivals, Annabel Sutherland took a career-best 4-31 as a revamped England XI crawled to 163 all out in 49.3 overs.

A half-century from skipper Meg Lanning then saw her side reach their target with 81 balls to spare, sealing a 12-4 win in the multi-format series.

It mirrored the final scoreline of Australia's dominant away campaign of 2019, but this time England finished winless, with their points coming from two washed out T20Is and the drawn Test.

Alyssa Healy and Rachael Haynes began the chase in aggressive fashion – in stark contrast to England's earlier efforts, albeit with the tourists' attack missing Katherine Brunt, Kate Cross and with Natalie Sciver not bowling – putting on 75 in 16 overs for the first wicket.

England 'keeper Amy Jones grassed a straightforward chance when Healy was on 24, and the Australia opener went on to hit a series-high 42 from 56 balls.

Freya Davies found the breakthrough for England when Healy skied a catch to backward point, and Sophie Ecclestone made it a double strike when she removed Haynes (31 from 46) the following over.

But with just 90 runs required, and 33 overs in which to score them, there was little pressure on Lanning (57 from 70) and Ellyse Perry (31 from 46), who brought up their 15th 50-plus stand in 26 innings batting together in ODIs.

Lanning was the more circumspect and scratchy of the two early, but with victory in sight the Australia skipper hit the accelerator to bring up her half-century off 62 balls.

She hit seven fours before icing victory with a towering six as Australia reached their target in 36.2 overs.

Earlier, England captain Heather Knight opted to give her new-look batting order the opportunity to set Australia a total, with debutant Emma Lamb replacing Lauren Winfield-Hill at the top of the order, and an extra bowling option added to the line-up with Sophia Dunkley omitted.

But Lamb's maiden ODI innings lasted all of two deliveries, as she was bowled by Perry (1-18) without scoring in the second over of the match.

With runs coming at a trickle, Tahlia McGrath (1-23) delivered the key wicket of the England skipper, with a yorker that got through Knight's defences and rattled her stumps, ending her 24-ball innings on nine.

Opener Tammy Beaumont (50 off 101) and No.4 Sciver (46 off 95) dug in, occupying the crease for 26 overs during an 88-run partnership.

Beaumont started to accelerate as she approached her half-century, hitting a six and two hours, but it also brought about her undoing when she mistimed a drive off leg-spinner Alana King (1-29) to McGrath at mid-off.

It triggered a collapse of 8-56, as Danni Wyatt, who had been promoted to No.5, holed out to Sutherland for nine, while a clever review by Lanning produced the wicket of Sciver, lbw to Megan Schutt (2-25).

Sutherland got her second when she bowled Ecclestone – who had been elevated to No.7 – for two, and Jones' disappointing tour continued when she was bowled by Schutt for four.

A brilliant catch from Haynes at backward point handed Sutherland her third, as Anya Shrubsole departed for two, before Tash Farrant became her fourth.

The Victorian could not claim her first international five-fer, but Jess Jonassen (1-20) ensured England were bowled out for under 200 the fifth time in their last seven ODI innings.

England were missing Cross, who sat out after hurting her wrist in the field on Sunday, while Brunt missed again with a side niggle.

Australia named an unchanged again, elected to continue their careful management of Beth Mooney (quad tightness) and Darcie Brown (general soreness).

Coming into Tuesday's game, Australia had already claimed the Ashes outright, and taken a 2-0 lead in the ODI leg – their 20th-consecutive one-day series win.

The sides will meet again in their opening match of the ODI World Cup in New Zealand on March 5.

England did not claim a win over Australia all summer between their men's and women's teams.

Commonwealth Bank Women's Ashes v England

Australia Ashes squad: Darcie Brown, Nicola Carey, Stella Campbell, Hannah Darlington, Ashleigh Gardner, Rachael Haynes (vc), Alyssa Healy, Jess Jonassen, Alana King, Meg Lanning (c), Tahlia McGrath, Beth Mooney, Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt, Annabel Sutherland

England Ashes squad: Heather Knight (c), Tammy Beaumont, Maia Bouchier, Katherine Brunt, Kate Cross, Freya Davies, Charlie Dean, Sophia Dunkley, Sophie Ecclestone, Tash Farrant, Sarah Glenn, Amy Jones, Nat Sciver (vc), Anya Shrubsole, Mady Villiers, Lauren Winfield-Hill, Danni Wyatt

Australia won the multi-format series 12-4

First T20: Australia won by nine wickets

Second T20: No Result

Third T20: Match Abandoned without a ball bowled

Test match: Match Drawn

First ODI: Australia won by 27 runs

Feb 6: Australia won by five wickets

Feb 8: Australia won by eight wickets