At the halfway stage, England had one foot on the plane. Beth Mooney had just completed a superb T20 series by smashing 117*, the second highest score in women’s T20 internationals, leaving England a world record 179 to chase. In reply they soon slipped to 30-3. Danni Wyatt was still there and striking it cleanly, but having already been dropped, the end seemed nigh. Then Wyatt, in company with her captain Heather Knight, took charge.

The result leaves the multi-format series level on points, with Australia retaining the Ashes, but also means Australia haven’t won a bilateral T20 series since mid-2015. With the 2018 World T20 fast approaching, that will be cause for concern.

England meanwhile will be delighted at the resilience they showed having given up the urn with two games to play, more delighted still that a player in whom they have invested so much has finally come good, and in stunning fashion.

Analysis – Danni Wyatt comes of age

It’s been a long time coming, but Danni Wyatt might finally have arrived. Just two games ago, in her 154th international, she notched her first half-century, and, promoted to open, now there’s this. She’s been pushed up the order, pushed down it, been an off-spinning all-rounder, a pure batsman, never truly able to settle into a defined role, but also perhaps never fully justifying one. She told Wisden’s Jo Harman before the World Cup that she “needs to be more selfish”, and perhaps there’s something in that. It could be that aiming for milestones, and having the opportunity to make them, has focused her. Whatever the reason for the transformation, in this format at least, at the top of the order is where she belongs, and with a World T20 round the corner 2018 could be her year. Maybe, after years of unfulfilled promise, Wyatt has finally found her home.