Ellyse Perry leads the repeated charge of a relentless winning machine | Geoff Lemon

Despite some new faces and a surprise dismissal, Australia showed no pity, remorse or fear against England in Ashes Test Cricket is an organic experience. Players wander around a green field, their day unfolding subject to the vagaries of sun and rain, time and tide. Before the Women's Ashes Test here, the greenness of the pitch stood out, the freshness of the air, making the England captain, Heather Knight, want to bowl. Then into this pastoral scene came Australia: the rise of the machines. If...