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Kate Cross: "I think it was unprecedented how poorly we performed over there"

NICK FRIEND: Cross, who was part of the squad for the Women's Ashes series but missed the whitewash with a back injury, admitted that her team had to win back the "love" of their fans after a disappointing winter

Lydia Greenway: England players must better connect with domestic teams in order to improve

NICK FRIEND – INTERVIEW: Greenway, who has contributed to an ECB feature looking at the history of England Women's cricket, highlighted a lack of cohesion between Team England and the domestic structures as a reason for Australia's Ashes dominance

Kate Cross ruled out of WPL with back injury

The England seamer had been due to represent Royal Challengers Bengaluru, but the issue that kept her out of the Women's Ashes has prevented her from joining up with RCB

Whitewashed in Australia and a wide-ranging review: English cricket has been here before

NICK FRIEND: This review into how England went a second Women's Ashes tour without winning a game in Australia comes at a crucial moment, with one team running clear and the other once again overhauling their domestic structure

England players refusing interviews "won't happen again" after Sophie Ecclestone incident

The left-arm spinner declined to be questioned by Alex Hartley after the T20 international at the SCG following her criticism of the team's fitness

Leadership, fitness and pressure: English cricket embarks on Women's Ashes review

Clare Connor, the managing director of England Women's cricket, has outlined what the inquest into the whitewash by Australia will look like but refrained from addressing the future of head coach Jon Lewis and captain Heather Knight

MCG provides the perfect backdrop for England's final humiliation

POLLY STARKIE AT THE MCG: The tourists showed some character on the ninth and final day of the Women's Ashes series. But very little can mask the 16-0 defeat inflicted upon them by an imperious Australia

Alana King and Alyssa Healy lead Australia's Ashes celebrations

With the trophy retained and the series won, only one box remained unticked ahead of the MCG Test. And this being Australia, they didn't disappoint

"How much has she got left to give?" - Heather Knight's future under the microscope as Ashes fallout begins

The 2017 World Cup-winning head coach Mark Robinson wants the falls out from the Ashes whitewash to focus less on blame, and more on how the gap to Australia can be breached

Jon Lewis: "I feel that I haven't finished the job that I came here to do"

England were beaten 16-0 by a rampant Australia, the scoreline sealed with an innings and 122-run defeat for the tourists in the one-off Test at the MCG

PLAYER RATINGS: Alana King stars as Australia complete whitewash

The Cricketer analyses the performances on both sides as Australia thrashed England by an innings and 122 runs at the MCG

Dismal England suffer Women's Ashes whitewash

No team had ever failed to take a single point since the multiformat structure was introduced in 2013, but England - whose highest total of the entire tour was just 222 - were well beaten in Melbourne to seal their infamy

Annabel Sutherland "realises childhood dreams" during history-making Women's Ashes century

OSCAR RESS: The Australian allrounder converted her third fifty-plus score into another century to become the first woman to reach the landmark in the longest format at the MCG

England's self-humiliation puts Australia on course for emphatic Ashes whitewash

POLLY STARKIE AT THE MCG: The visitors dropped seven catches, including three from Beth Mooney's bat in a period of play that aptly illustrated England's day in the field and their tour as a whole

Demoralised England crumble as Australia power towards Test victory

There was a third Test century for allrounder Annabel Sutherland (165) and 98 not out from Beth Mooney as Australia ended day two on 422 for 5 with a lead of 249 but England had themselves to blame with countless missed opportunities