• Skipper plans to take keeping gloves when series starts on 12 January
• Sophie Molineux left out of 13-player squad due to knee injury

In a competition for attention between Australia’s first cricketing couple, Alyssa Healy has implored fans to watch the historic women’s Ashes Test at the MCG rather than her husband’s men’s Test in Sri Lanka.

This summer’s women’s Ashes starts with ODI and T20 matches next month, and ends with the pink-ball battle in Melbourne, just as the men’s team travels to Sri Lanka for a two-Test series.