Ellyse Perry asks to include women's Ashes points system for other series as well

Last year the Ashes was the fourth in the format where total points through T20 matches, ODIs and the Test series determine the winner. While it has been quite effective and experts have been calling for this usage even in men's bilateral tournaments, the ICC is yet to give it a real thought. Now, Perry, who claimed the Belinda Clark award as the best Australian women's player of the year, said that there was merit in the new adoption.

"Every year our schedule gets busier and the amount of matches we play increases. Something that has been really successful is this Ashes format," Perry said, reported The Sydney Morning Herald.

"We play a multi-format with three one-dayers, a Test match and then three T20s. The combination of the points there equal up to a series win or loss. I think against some of the other major nations in the world, potentially that's a possibility going forward, that we might play more and more of those kinds of series because they have been really successful in the Ashes and they have brought to light a really great competition that includes all three formats of the game which are really relevant to women's cricket."

Perry, who has been a household name among the women’s cricket followers in the world, was spectacular in all three formats of the game in 2017 and ended the year with an unbeaten double century in the Test at North Sydney Oval against England and will hope to have a major influence on the tour of India in coming March. The two cricketing heavyweights had last met in the semi-final of the 2017 World Cup, in which a crunching Harmanpreet Kaur century helped India win the game by 36 runs. And Perry believes the hosts will not give them any leeway in the upcoming series as well that comprises three ODIs.

"It's going to be a huge challenge for us, India in India. They have played some wonderful cricket in the past 12 months, a finalist in the World Cup in England last year, and since then have continued to play some really great cricket," Perry said.

"They have got some really experienced legends of the game in their side, in Mithali Raj and Jhulan Goswami, and they have got some great talent as well that have performed really well in the last 12 months. For us, going over there, and not being super experienced in those kinds of conditions, is going to be a really tough challenge."