Perry ready to fire for women's Ashes Southern Stars spearhead Ellyse Perry expects to be bowling at full pace right from the start of the women's Ashes cricket tour after undergoing off-season ankle surgery following her World Cup heroics. The 22-year-old dual international had work done on her ankle after returning from the World Cup in India in February, when she produced a match-tilting spell of 3-19 in the final against West Indies. Renowned for being one of the fastest bowlers in the women's game Perry anticipated she would be able to bowl at her quickest from the beginning of the tour. "That's certainly the plan," Perry said at Sydney Airport on Thursday. All of us have had a really good preparation. We had our last camp just a few weeks ago up in Brisbane. We played an extended match up there and everyone bowled full pelt. Vice-captain and veteran batter Alex Blackwell was upbeat about Perry's condition. "Obviously its great to have 'Pez' (Perry) back going at 100 per cent and she looks very fit and ready to go," Blackwell said. I'm really excited about seeing her back out there. I think it's a really great bowling attack, a good balanced lineup with the batting. Australia will play a two-day warmup game against England A before the one-off Test. The Southern Stars, who are currently the one-day and T2O world champions, will also play three games against England in both those forms, with results from all three varieties of the game counting towards the Ashes. I think they will have a match practice advantage - that's a given. But we're confident in our preparation," Blackwell said. We've had two really good camps at the Centre of Excellence and despite the weather being a little bit colder in Sydney, we've had some quality sessions with the NSW Breakers squad. We can't do anything about that, we haven't played as many games leading into this series as England have. But I think England will be looking at our team and thinking 'we're going to have to play well to beat Australia' and I think that's a really great thing for us. AAP aw/jb