Australia women's squad announced

All-rounder Sarah Coyte is one of two new faces in Australia women's squad for their matches against New Zealand and England

Australia women's selectors have named a 14-player squad for the series against England.

The group will play two Twenty20 internationals in New Zealand later this month before doing battle with England in three one-day internationals, a five-match Twenty20 series and a four-day Test for the women’s Ashes from January 5-25.

Meg Lanning and Sarah Coyte have been added to the party that won the ICC World Twenty20 in the West Indies earlier this year, with Clea Smith and Elyse Villani making way.

Cricket Australia’s women’s national selection panel chair Christina Matthews said: "Both Meg and Sarah have been performing well in domestic cricket and fully deserve their opportunity in the Australian team for the coming summer.

“Meg is a talented young top-order batter who has started the domestic season well and we look forward to seeing how she goes in national colours if the opportunity presents.

“Sarah is a young all-rounder on the rise who impressed last year in her first season for the Breakers and with the Australian Under-21 team. She bowls good medium pace and is also a very handy lower-order batter.

“Julie Hunter is recovering from a shoulder operation and has been selected pending fitness.

“Jodie Fields is continuing her rehabilitation from her hamstring injury and is progressing well, but will not begin playing until after Christmas and therefore could not be considered.

“Alex Blackwell will once again captain the team with Shelley Nitschke her vice-captain.

“It's going to be a long, tough summer against very good opposition and we look forward to seeing how we match-up against them.

“We have a great rivalry against both New Zealand and England and they both have very good teams so it shapes as an exciting summer, finishing with the Ashes Test at Bankstown from 22-25 January.

“We are hopeful that the team can cap-off a good summer by reclaiming the Ashes once more.“

Australia women’s squad

Alex Blackwell, captain (New South Wales)
Shelley Nitschke, vice-captain (South Australia)
Jessica Cameron (Victoria)
Sarah Coyte (New South Wales)
Sarah Elliott (Victoria)
Rene Farrell (Western Australia)
Rachael Haynes (Victoria)
Alyssa Healy (New South Wales)
Julie Hunter+ (Victoria)
Meg Lanning (Victoria)
Erin Osborne (New South Wales)
Ellyse Perry (New South Wales)
Leah Poulton (New South Wales)
Lisa Sthalekar (New South Wales)

+Subject to fitness