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Meg Lanning, Australia's stand-in captain, has suggested that the format was weighted too heavily towards the sole Test, which England won

Australia once again stamped their authority over England with a seven-wicket victory in the final match of the women's Ashes series, as England finished with 2 successive defeats and a scoreline of 10-8

Australia raced their way to a straightforward victory over England in the second T20, as captain Meg Lanning's speedy 42 off 28 balls set them up

England made history in Hobart, winning the women's Ashes on Australian soil for only the third time, as the captain Charlotte Edwards, the player of the match, hit 92 off just 59 balls and guided the visitors to a nine-wicket victory with 13 balls to sp

An incredible display of batting by Ellyse Perry and Erin Osborne saw England's hopes of an early victory in the Ashes series denied

Nicole Bolton starred for Australia with 124 off 152 balls to become the highest scoring debutant for Australia in women's ODIs as the hosts kept their Ashes hopes alive.

England took one step closer towards retaining the women's Ashes in Melbourne as they triumphed in the first ODI by seven wickets, going 8-0 up in the points-based multi-format series

Sarah Elliott wants the Women's Ashes to include more than a single Test match believing it would be a true reflection on the two teams

Australia Women were left 61 runs short of their 185-run target as England Women took the five wickets they required for victory for the addition of just 24 runs, thereby sealing only their fifth Test win in Australia

Australia collapsed to 5 for 57 chasing just 185 as England struck repeatedly with the new ball in the final 90 minutes of play

A late evening collapse by England's top-order left Australia jubilant and rounded off an excellent fightback, after they had been reduced to 37 for 5 on the second morning

Australia failed to round off an otherwise excellent day's work on the opening day of the women's Test at Perth when, having bowled England out for only 201, their openers both succumbed to Anya Shrubsole in a tricky six-over period before close of play

ESPNcricinfo previews the women's Ashes, which gets underway with one-off Test in Perth

Katherine Brunt, Heather Knight and Anya Shrubsole, having recovered from injury, have all found a place in England's Test, ODI and T20 squads for the Women's Ashes in Australia, which begins in January

Holly Colvin, the England left-arm spinner, has decided to pursue a career outside cricket and will not be available for January's Ashes series or the World Twenty20

The women's Ashes will retain the points-based format used in the current series when England travel to Australia in early 2014