Women can feed off Ashes - Greenway

"We’ve got as good a team spirit as we’ve had in a while and hopefully that’ll get us through games," Lydia Greenway revealed

England women can emulate the success enjoyed by their male counterparts in Australia, according to Lydia Greenway.

Greenway has been impressed by the morale among Andrew Strauss’ squad while retaining the Ashes Down Under.

Greenway and company have their own urn to defend later this month, but are now firmly focused on the three-match one-day series that begins tomorrow.

The 25-year-old, who has 81 one-day international caps, believes both sets of tourists have a vital ingredient for success.

“It’s nice to see them doing well and you can see that they’ve got good team spirit and that’s something that we’ve got as well,” she told ecb.co.uk.

“Having a good team spirit can win you games. When your team-mates do well and when you see them performing well it’s really pleasing.

"I think we’ve got as good a team spirit as we’ve had in a while and hopefully that’ll get us through games.”

All three ODIs are at the WACA where the men suffered their only tour defeat to date, failing to come to terms with its pace and bounce.

Even though the women’s previous matches were on slow wickets in Sri Lanka, Greenway believes the two convincing warm-up wins over Western Australia - at the Floreat Park Oval - have prepared them nicely for Perth pitches.

“The ground where we had our warm-up games, they were good wickets, and the WACA is renowned for being quite quick and bouncy,” she said. “I think most of the girls are very excited about playing there.

“When we played in Sri Lanka the pitches were much different so it’s nice to come out here in Australia where the wickets are probably more what we’re used to in England. As a batter, personally, it’s nice to play on them as well.”

Having last played in Sri Lanka, Greenway believes Australian wickets "are probably more what we’re used to in England"

Greenway revealed the tourists have been concentrating on dealing with extra bounce in training.

“If they’re getting more bounce, we’ll probably have to think about pulling the ball a bit more and hooking and making sure we pick the right sort of ball to play,” she added.

“And that’s what we’ve been basing our training around, preparing for the bounce and the quickness of the pitches.

"We’ve had some really good practice and now we’re all just really eager and keen to go out and play.”

In such conditions, fast bowlers Katherine Brunt of England and Australia’s Rene Farrell are likely to play key roles as leaders of their respective attacks.

“They’re different sort of bowlers,” Greenway observed. “Rene Farrell tends to get a bit more movement and swings it more whereas Katherine runs in, hits the pitch and has the potential to bowl very good bouncers.

“We’ll all back Katherine Brunt because we know what she can do and I think we’ve got a lot of key players in our team who can all contribute.

“As our coach says, for us to be successful it’s important that we all contribute.

"That’s what’s been pleasing in our warm-up games - that everyone who has played has contributed to the game, which has been brilliant.”

Greenway, a World Cup winner Down Under in March 2009, said: "We’ve all got good memories of it so there’s no reason why we shouldn’t be confident that we can do well"

England women are yet to win a one-day series in Australia, something Greenway is desperate to help rectify having played in the 2-2 stalemate Down Under almost three years ago.

“Especially for the more senior girls, to come out with a one-day series win would be such a big achievement,” she said.

“We’ve only ever drawn a one-day series over here so it’ll just be such a huge achievement for us and all we want to do is do our best and make sure we come out on top.”

Greenway has, of course, enjoyed the greatest one-day success possible in Australia with World Cup glory there in March last year.

Having beaten New Zealand and Sri Lanka since Australia took England's World Twenty20 crown in May, she is drawing great confidence from previous success Down Under.

“Having been out in Australia and winning the World Cup out here, we’ve all got good memories of it so there’s no reason why we shouldn’t be confident that we can do well,” she insisted.

“We know that the Australia team we’re going to come up against are also very strong. I think it’ll be like when we played New Zealand. Whoever wins, it’ll be a close series whatever happens.

“We’re just prepared for a really big challenge and make sure that we stand up and put in some big performances.”