England and Australia bring the Women’s Ashes to Lord’s for a one-day international, a year after meeting there in the T20 World Cup final.
Lord’s Cricket Ground in St John’s Wood stages the second one-day international of the Women’s Ashes on Friday 16 July 2027. England and Australia met at the ground a year earlier in the T20 World Cup final.
The rivalry goes back to the 1934 to 1935 season, the first women’s Test series anywhere. Since 2013 the Ashes have been decided on points across Tests, one-day and Twenty20 matches, with four for a Test win and two for each limited-overs win.
The trophy itself was made at Lord’s in July 1998. Norma Izard, president of the Women’s Cricket Association, had both teams sign a miniature bat, which was burned on the ground alongside a copy of the association’s constitution. The ashes went into a wooden ball carved from yew.
Australia have held the trophy since 2015 and retained it in five straight series. The 2027 contest opens with a Test on 24 June, and this match is the second of three one-day games.
Lord’s has become a central ground for the women’s game. In 2026 it staged 21 major women’s matches, and the T20 World Cup final drew 28,887, the largest crowd for a women’s match in Britain.