Why Ashes shot is 'massive' for Aussie women

Following the occurrence of the Australian men's cricket squad successful their 4-0 Ashes triumph, the Australia women's cricket team cannot hold to statesman their Ashes series against England this Thursday.

The home, multi-format bid volition feature 3 T20 Internationals, a Test lucifer and 3 One-Day Internationals, held crossed Adelaide, Canberra and Melbourne.

With Test matches a rarity successful the women's game, Australian accelerated bowler Tayla Vlaeminck is thrilled to instrumentality portion successful 2 Tests this summer, aft Australia's lone Test against India successful September past year.

Tayla Vlaeminck celebrates aft taking a wicket. (Getty)

Before that match, Australia had not played a crippled successful the format since the 2019 Ashes bid abroad.

"Test matches are ever massive," Vlaeminck told Wide World of Sports.

"For astir of the girls successful the squad, they grew up watching Test cricket, and I cognize for maine personally, sitting astatine location implicit Christmas clip watching the boys tally successful and vessel for days connected extremity was thing I truly enjoyed.

"I deliberation everyone wants the accidental to bash that.

"You usually play 1 (match) and past hold 2 years for your adjacent accidental successful an Ashes Test, truthful to get 2 successful 1 twelvemonth is beauteous special."

The four-day Test volition instrumentality spot astatine Canberra's Manuka Oval, with Vlaeminck forecasting a displacement successful tempo erstwhile the lucifer yet rolls astir successful the schedule.

Tayla Vlaeminck bowls during crippled 2 of the International Women's T20 bid betwixt Australia and India. (Getty)

"The week earlier the Test astatine training, you get the reddish balls retired and everyone's vigor and strength conscionable goes up that small bit," she said.

Taking portion successful her 2nd Ashes campaign, the 23-year-old is primed arsenic 1 of Australia's main weapons.

"I thin to vessel a batch done the powerfulness play and conscionable effort to tally successful and vessel accelerated to effort and instrumentality immoderate wickets upfront, truthful that's my occupation for the team," she said.

"I'm a beauteous competitory player, truthful for me, it is conscionable astir getting successful the contention and moving hard to bash everything I tin for the team."

While Australia retained the past Ashes, Vlaeminck expects a fewer cardinal differences to shingle up the upcoming series.

"The wickets volition beryllium harder," she said.

Australia's Tayla Vlaeminck celebrates the dismissal of Amy Jones of England. (Getty)

"The wickets implicit determination (in England) are often bowler-friendly I suppose.

"The squad is besides a small antithetic since that past tour, truthful determination are immoderate caller faces successful our squad and England's arsenic well."

With the merchandise of a star-studded 15-player squad, headlined by large names specified arsenic Meg Lanning, Alyssa Healy, Megan Schutt and Ellyse Perry to sanction a few, Vlaeminck labelled emerging talents Tahlia McGrath and chap accelerated bowler Darcie Brown arsenic 2 caller players to support an oculus on.

"We saw what Tahlia McGrath did successful that India bid earlier successful the summer, she was amazing," said Vlaeminck.

"She single-handedly won america a fistful of games, she was whacking the shot and bowling truly well.

"So hopefully, she tin proceed that signifier into this series.

Australia observe their 2019 Ashes bid triumph during the 3rd Women's T20I. (Getty)

"Then you person Darcie Brown arsenic well," Vlaeminck continued.

"She's a young accelerated bowler who bowls wheels, truthful I'm truly pumped to spot what she does this bid arsenic well.

"Hopefully astatine immoderate constituent during the bid determination volition beryllium an accidental to get retired determination astatine the aforesaid clip due to the fact that I deliberation that would beryllium truly bully amusive and we could hopefully marque an interaction together."

Although, Vlaeminck besides highlighted the menace posed by well-known players successful the England squad that person taken portion successful the WBBL for a fewer years, specified arsenic Issy Wong.

The women's Ashes bid gets underway astatine Adelaide Oval connected Thursday 20 January with the archetypal T20I match. 

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