Date: 12 January-2 February |
Coverage: Live Test Match Special radio on BBC Sounds, BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra and the BBC Sport website and app, which will also have live text commentary, reports and features. |
The Test match in the 2025 Women’s Ashes in Australia will be a day-night game at the 100,000-capacity Melbourne Cricket Ground.
It will return to a four-day match after it was extended to five days during the 2023 series in England.
The pink-ball game, which starts on 30 January, will also end the multi-format series for the first time since it was introduced in 2015.
Australia retained the Ashes with an 8-8 draw in 2023 in England.
The multi-format Ashes will also consist of three one-day internationals and three T20s – each worth two points. The Test is worth four points.
The ODIs will start the series from 12 January, before the T20s begin on 20 January.
Australia won the Test in 2023 but England claimed both white-ball series 2-1.
England last won the Women’s Ashes in 2014, with a 10-8 victory down under.
2025 Women’s Ashes schedule
ODI series
12 January: North Sydney Oval, Sydney
14 January: Junction Oval, Melbourne
17 January: Bellerive Oval, Hobart
T20 series
20 January: Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney
23 January: Manuka Oval, Canberra
25 January: Adelaide Oval, Adelaide
Test match
30 January-2 February: MCG, Melbourne