England captain Heather Knight speaks to Jo Harman ahead of her eighth Ashes series about her greatest tussles with Australia and her love for a format she rarely gets to play

"Anti-climactic" is how Heather Knight remembers her Ashes debut in January 2011. A fortnight after Andrew Strauss had skippered England’s men to an era-defining victory at the SCG, a 20-year-old Knight walked out to open the batting just a few miles down the road at the Bankstown Oval in a oneoff Test match which would decide the Women’s Ashes.
Four days earlier Charlotte Edwards’ side had completed a 4-1 trouncing o...