Women's Ashes: England v Australia, third and final T20 – live!

12th over: England 76-3 (Knight 19, Jones 17) A lovely shot from Amy Jones, who charges the first ball from the legspinner Georgia Wareham and drives it sweetly over mid-off for four. It’s the start of a very good over for England – 12 from it – with Jones dragging another boundary behind square on the leg side.

11th over: England 64-3 (Knight 19, Jones 5) Jones survives a precautionary stumping referral after some nifty work from Healy. Three from Jonassen’s over. I’m slightly surprised Perry hasn’t returned for an over, given her hold over Jones this summer.

10th over: England 61-3 (Knight 18, Jones 3) Knight is beaten for pace by consecutive deliveries from Vlaeminck, who has a lovely rhythm this evening. She then survives an LBW appeal – it was going down – and a run-out chance from the same delivery. A difficult over ends on a high when she swings the final delivery over square leg for six. Great shot.

9th over: England 54-3 (Knight 12, Jones 3) Knight, who has started purposefully, back cuts Kimmince for a couple. England are struggling to find the boundary, with just a four and a six from Wyatt, but they have manoeuvred the bowling pretty well.

8th over: England 48-3 (Knight 8, Jones 1) The new batter Amy Jones gets off the mark – not just in the match but the IT20 series. That was a very impressive opening over from Vlaeminck, with a top speed of 75mph.

The pace of Tayla Vlaeminck is too much for Nat Sciver. She top-edges an attempted pull high in the air to third man, where Kimmince calmly takes the catch.

7th over: England 45-2 (Knight 6, Sciver 5) Delissa Kimmince replaces Megan Schutt. The tempo has changed since the departure of Wyatt, with England dealing exclusively in singles. There are five more from Kimmince’s first over.

6th over: England 40-2 (Knight 4, Sciver 2) Knight scrambles to make her ground after taking a tight run to mid-on off the bowling of Jonassen. That’s one of four singles from the over. England’s intent has been much better today; they are just short of confidence.

It is happening again. After a slightly scruffy start, Australia are taking control of the game. Wyatt makes room to cut Schutt, misses and is bowled. That ends a perky innings of 20 from 19 balls, and leaves England in a bit of bother.

4th over: England 31-1 (Wyatt 17, Knight 1) Heather Knight has promoted herself to No3.

Jess Jonassen strikes with her third ball! Beaumont runs down the track and chips tamely to mid-on, where Beth Mooney takes a comfortable catch. That was a pretty meek stroke from Beaumont, who was berating herself even before it had reached Mooney.

3rd over: England 28-0 (Wyatt 15, Beaumont 5) After a front-foot no-ball from Perry, Beaumont is caught at midwicket off the resulting free hit. Wyatt, again on the charge, slices Perry majestically over backward point for six. That’s an awesome stroke. This has been a fine start from England – not so much the runs as the intent with which they have played.

“England are a very good team, and if they’re being made to look so bad, the rest of the sides don’t stand a chance against Australia,” says Abhijato Sensarma. “Look out, people, the Aussie women might just become the most dominant cricket team we’ve ever seen!”

2nd over: England 17-0 (Wyatt 7, Beaumont 4) Wyatt, on the charge, slaps Megan Schutt over cover for the first boundary. It’s been a busy start from England, who get four bonus runs when a big inswinger from Schutt beats both Wyatt and the keeper Healy.

1st over: England 6-0 (Wyatt 1, Beaumont 3) Ellyse Perry’s first over is a bit of a mixed bag. There’s a leg-side wide to Wyatt, who is also beaten by a beauty outside off stump. Beaumont then drags a short ball towards mid-on, where the sprawling Vlaeminck does very well to save a couple of runs.

England have, as we suspected, made a change to their batting order: Tammy Beaumont will open with Danni Wyatt.

It’s a beautiful evening in Bristol. The players are ready, the umpires are ready. Let us flay.

Amy Jones is listed to open for England, but she may drop down the order after a miserable time in the white-ball matches. She has made five runs in five innings, with four ducks, although she made a superb 64 on Test debut before this IT20 series.

The young bowling allrounder Mady Villiers makes her England debut, while Australia bring in the fast bowler Tayla Vlaeminck.

England Jones (wk), Wyatt, Beaumont, Knight (c), Sciver, Winfield, Brunt, Shrubsole, de Villiers, Ecclestone, Cross.

Australia Healy (wk), Mooney, Lanning (c), Perry, Gardner, Haynes, Jonassen, Wareham, Kimmince, Schutt, Vlaeminck.

“We want to finish off on a high,” says Meg Lanning. “We need three hours of hard work tonight and we’re looking forward to it.”

Pre-match reading

Here’s Geoff Lemon on the great Meg Lanning, who has scored 388 runs against England in IT20s since she was last dismissed. And even that was a run out.

Good evening. The good news for England is that the torment is almost over. The bad news is that there isn’t enough Aloe Vera in the world to heal the scars caused by Australia’s pitiless excellence this summer. This has been a traumatic thrashing for England; the kind that, if you’re not careful, bleeds into the next Ashes series, and the next, and the next, until one day you start dining out on the fact you once beat Ellyse Perry’s outside edge.

A win tonight would give Australia a 14-2 series victory, which would be a record since the points system was introduced in 2013. (England won 12-4 that year.) England have avoided defeat only once, in the one-off Test match, and they were second best in that game as well.

Their Ashes horribilis has prompted the kind of soul-searching and domestic-structure-bemoaning this country does so readily. England can play better – there’s your daily insight, folks! – but they are still the second best team in the world. For mine, this Ashes has been more about Australia’s strengths than their weaknesses.

On reflection it was naive to think England had much of a chance. They are playing against the greatest team in women’s cricket history. But I doubt England will draw much succour from that.

The match begins at 6.30pm.