WATCH: Sophie Ecclestone traps Beth Mooney in her plan to get latter stumped-out in 2nd T20I

Star England Women spinner Sophie Ecclestone displayed her amazing ‘presence of mind’ in the ongoing second T20I of the three-match series in the Women’s Ashes 2025. Ecclestone trapped in-form Australia opener and wicketkeeper-batter, Beth Mooney in the first innings to get the latter stumped out by English wicketkeeper Amy Jones.

The moment came on the third ball of the eighth over when Mooney was comfortably playing at the individual score of 44 runs off 31 balls, with seven fours. But then came Ecclestone with her clever approach to dismiss the well-settled Mooney and give the second blow to the hosts.

The Aussie batter happened to take an early jump and Ecclestone sensed it already which made him decide to bowl wide down the leg stump. The video of this amazing ‘clever moment’ featuring Sophie Ecclestone, also went viral on social media as soon as it was shared on X (formerly Twitter).

Here’s the video of when Sophie Ecclestone trapped Beth Mooney:

Sophie Ecclestone gets the plan right and Beth Mooney falls on 44 #Ashespic.twitter.com/RrCqDn4HCK

— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) January 23, 2025

Speaking of the action of the match, Australia Women posted a decent total of 185 runs for the loss of 5 wickets in the allotted 20 overs. Opener and wicketkeeper-batter, Beth Mooney scored 44 runs off 31 balls, with seven fours followed by stand-in skipper Tahlia McGrath’s 48-run knock off 35 balls, with eight fours.

Besides these two, Grace Harris also smashed a quick knock of 35 runs off just 17 balls, with two fours and three sixes. Charlie Dean scalped 2 wickets for England at 28 runs in her four overs. Apart from him, Freya Camp and Sophie Ecclestone also claimed a wicket each.

At the time of filling this, the tourists had scored 50 runs for the loss of 1 wicket in 7 overs while chasing the target of 186 runs, with Danni Wyatt-Hodge and Sophia Dunkey there in the middle at the individual scores of 33 and 3 runs, respectively.

Notably, the hosts Australia Women are already leading the three-match T20I series by 1-0 and they will be eyeing taking an unassailable lead of 2-0 with a win in this match.