Women's Ashes: What we learned from Australia's 12-4 series win over England

With the women's Ashes series run and won across all three formats, it's time to look back at what became apparent about Australia's juggernaut of a cricket team before the upcoming World Cup.

When the series started off with a 20-over match in Adelaide, there was a general sense of shock: Ellyse Perry was not playing.

Perry basically is Twenty20 cricket in Australia: the national team had played three times before her debut in 2008, and from that point on she played 126 of the next 148 matches. Now she was out.

Not injured, not rested, not rotated — not picked. Her scoring was not deemed fast enough and her bowling had lost bite.

As she came back for the longer formats though, Perry showed her class remains.

For once, she did not dominate the Test with the bat, though plenty of players would take 59 runs in a match.

But she did bowl really well with the new ball, taking 3-57 in the first innings to help set up Australia's big lead.

She carried that into the one-dayers, by far the most frugal bowler at 2.3 runs per over, picking up four wickets at 11.5, and with the bat top-scoring in one run chase and not out in the other. Perry still has plenty to offer.

Someone who could complement Perry instead of supplanting her is fellow seaming all-rounder Tahlia McGrath, who first played for Australia in 2016 but has taken a few years to fire.

She did so last September with a stellar series against India, and carried that on in the Ashes.

It was McGrath who made that T20 team when Perry missed out. The South Australian made the most of it, belting 91 not out from 49 balls before taking 3-26. As you do.

She followed up with 52 and 34 in the Test match, with a couple of wickets, before adding six wickets in the one-dayers at an average of