Alyssa Healy’s world champions have suffered a rare defeat to the old enemy England in their final warm-up match before the Women’s World Cup defence in India — but there were still plenty of things to cheer in their ‘phoney war’ loss. Alice Capsey sees us home to lead us into #CWC25 with wins in all our warm-up matches ? pic.twitter.com/AcQZQ838Qb — England Cricket (@englandcricket) September 28, 2025Still, Australia were all out in only 34.4 overs thanks largely to their batters’ gung-ho approach. Eventually, it was the partnership of 109 between Capsey and Lamb that won the day. Sports opinion delivered daily“I thought it was a good bowling effort,” said Nitschke, who was unable to use Ellyse Perry, sidelined by illness.