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In sport, being the underdog is often described as a dangerous thing. <\/span><\/p>\n In some instances, it has been proved to be true – but more often than not, greatness will prevail. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n England learned that lesson in the cruellest way late on day four at Trent Bridge, as Australia ripped through their top order with clinical brutality after the hosts had made such a positive start to their pursuit of 268. <\/span><\/p>\n With their backs to the wall after Tammy Beaumont and Emma Lamb’s rapid 55-run opening stand, a feeling of hope – one so rare against Australia – started to drift through the crowd at Trent Bridge. <\/span><\/p>\n But with the hope came the tension, and with the tension came Australia’s chance, and there is only so long you can keep greatness at bay. <\/span><\/p>\n England were cruising, but in consecutive overs, Beaumont and Lamb were gone – the former, a first-innings double-centurion, caught at slip, while the latter was pinned lbw by all-rounder Tahlia McGrath. <\/span><\/p>\n The floodlights beamed down on Trent Bridge, which became Australia’s Colosseum, as England’s hopes faded with the sun. <\/span><\/p>\n As pressure knocked on England’s door, Australia blew it down with a double whammy, as star all-rounder Nat Sciver-Brunt and captain Heather Knight both fell to Ash Gardner’s cunning off-spin.<\/span><\/p>\n Sophia Dunkley was undone by some surprising late-evening swing from Kim Garth, and Australia’s job was half done. <\/span><\/p>\n But England have turned their fortunes around already in this Test match, and for the first time in recent years, it has been an even contest. <\/span><\/p>\nGripping contest is still alive <\/h3>\n