Women’s Ashes: Tammy Beaumont makes maiden century as England fight back against Australia on day two at Trent Bridge

The one-off Test match between England and Australia hangs in the balance after Tammy Beaumont struck a fantastic century in day two of the Ashes at Trent Bridge.

At the end of the day’s play, Beaumont remained unbeaten with a score of 100 as England reached a total of 218-2 in their reply to Australia’s 473.

Beaumont joins Heather Knight, Jos Buttler and Dawid Malan as the England players to score centuries in all three formats of the game.

Australia will look back on the moment when they failed to detect and review an edge through to short leg off Alana King when Beaumont was on 61. Beaumont made the most of her luck, though, striking 16 boundaries on her way to a maiden century.

Knight scored 57 in a stand of 115 with Beaumont, as England closed the day on 218-2, still trailing by 255 runs.

“I didn’t realise she meant the all three formats one, I thought she just meant an Ashes hundred or something.

“It’s always good to look back at personal milestones and nice to tick that one off – something that I thought probably might evade me as I’m coming to the latter half of my career.”

Asked where the Test century ranks in her career to date, Beaumont said: “If we go on to win this Test match then it would be right up there. Let’s wait and see.

“It’s great to tick it off and yes, as a kid, I dreamt of scoring an Ashes Test hundred – pretty much since 2005 that has been my goal. But as I’ve gone on, it’s contributing to the team. Ask me on day five if we win and I think it’ll be a yes.”

Australia started the day 328-7 and Annabel Sutherland’s brilliant 137 helped add 145 to their tally, as Sophie Ecclestone took a Test career-best 5-129 for England.

The ninth-wicket partnership between Sutherland and Kim Garth, who made 22, made life difficult for England and helped bring up 473 – the highest first-innings total in women’s Test match history.

But England now have reason for hope, largely thanks to Beaumont’s heroics.