Alyssa Healy hopes to return to full fitness in time for historic Women’s Ashes

Alyssa Healy will captain Australia against England in the women’s Ashes as the hosts’ ODI and T20I squads are named for the series to start on 12 January Photograph: Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images

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.