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If and when the injury heals, the Australia skipper would still need time to gradually increase the intensity of his bowling, a period which McDonald admitted would take at least four weeks.

What he really wanted was the pint-size soccer balls, squishy baseballs, plastic bowling balls.

Indeed, the topic of fast bowling will dominate the build-up to the series.

Though the batting was a struggle, England proved once again that they have one of the most well-rounded bowling attacks to compete in these conditions.

Here, given exclusively pace bowling to face at the start of her innings - another strange New Zealand call - she did not offer a chance in reaching three figures with her powerful drives particularly eye-catching.