FULLpoints for boldness. To replace Meg Lanning, Australia’s women have opted to go into the Ashes with a captain not in their best XI for the World Cup, and who has been in national exile for the better part of four years.

By Adam Collins
The new skipper is Rachael Haynes, who wore the armband in Lanning’s absence on two occasions during that World Cup, but was surplus to requirements at all other times when the full-time captain was fit. In doing so, the left-handed batsman, a veteran of 66 internationals after debuting in 2009, has again leapfrogged vicecaptain Alex Blackwell...