Online Desk: Tammy Beaumont became the first Englishwoman to hit a double hundred as she broke an age-old record during the third day of the one-off women’s Ashes Test between England and Australia at the Trent Bridge on Saturday. Beaumont scored 208 off 331 balls as England reached 363 all out in their innings. Earlier on day two, Annabel Sutherland hit 137 not out and registered her name in the record books as well as Australia were bowled out for 473.

Beaumont, whose previous best was 70, surpassed Betty Snowball’s 189-run knock that had stood the highest individual score by an Englishwoman over 88 years and four months. On June 16, 1935, Snowball scored 189 runs against New Zealand at Christchurch in what was just the fourth Women’s Test ever. England won the match by an innings and 335 runs.

Beaumont became just the second female cricketer after compatriot Heather Knight to register three-figure score across all three formats. However, the 32-year-old fell just five short the highest individual score in Women’s Ashes – held by Australia’s Ellyse Perry. Perry, who is playing in the ongoing Test, had scored an unbeaten 213 in 2017.

Beaumont also became the second opener to score a double ton after Pakistan’s Kiran Baluch, who scored 242 off 584 deliveries against the West Indies in 2004.