Captain says Perry will bounce back Southern Stars captain Cathryn Fitzpatrick says Ellyse Perry will bounce back from a disappointing Ashes campaign. SOUTHERN Stars coach Cathryn Fitzpatrick says strike bowler Ellyse Perry will be a better player for her disappointing Ashes performance in England. The star Australia strike bowler took just two wickets for the series, going wicket-less in five short form games, as the Southern Stars lost the Ashes 12 points to four. It was Perry's first series since two lots of ankle surgery earlier this year and Fitzpatrick said while she felt sore at times and she was managed, she was fine. While Perry's bowling floundered, she made 146 runs and Fitzpatrick said the 22-year-old would bounce back. "She'll be the first one to tell you she didn't hit the lengths that she needed to be hitting and it meant that she didn't have the impact that she's capable of having," Fitzpatrick said. But that will be something that she'll nut out. You set some stuff up in a training environment and you keep the conversations going and the encouragement going and backing her to do that. Every player at any time goes through a period where things aren't quite right. The test and the character shine through in how you deal with that. She'll be a better player for this, because she's gone through it. She's going to play a long career, not everyone gets things their own way. For her she'll go away and she'll probably think harder about it than what she may have and that's where you get the better result. England celebrated its return of the urn with an emphatic victory in the final Twenty20 match of the series at Durham on Saturday. While England had a dramatic batting collapse, slumping to 3-14, it reached the total in 17th over with seven wickets remaining to win the series 12 points to four. but she made 146 runs. In spite of the one win, five losses and a draw result, Fitzpatrick did not think England's victory constituted a thrashing. "I certainly think today (Saturday) was one of our worst performances but right throughout it's easy to pick moments that could have swung it either way," she said. I think that they won more of those moments than we did. I think the teams are evenly matched and I think we showed that right throughout. She insisted "nothing's broken" with her side. "It's just a lack of consistency," she said. Sometimes it was the batting sometimes it was the bowling that was missing. We just couldn't back up two halves of a game. Any time we tried to assert some authority on the same and switch momentum we'd give it up and lose or wicket. I don't think we brought our cricket smarts enough. We did in patches, but when you're playing against a team that's evenly matched they're the defining things. There isn't a gap between the teams, there's a gap between how we play over a month. She said there were plenty of highlights for the Aussies. "I'd expected Meg Lanning goes away quite confident, Jess Cameron's had a good series," she said. Holly Ferling's probably exceeded ours and her expectations, Sarah Coyte's had a sensation time with the ball, Ellyse Perry's batted the best that we've seen her bat for a long time. There's reason for lots of people to be really confident in what they've achieved. There'll be some players that will be disappointed and probably got a few more questions to answer than some, but overall, you don't lose belief in your abilities. She said members of the current squad would need to perform in the women's national league to secure their sport in the side for January's return Ashes series. "Nobody's position's a lay down guarantee," she said. That's a long way away. I'd expect we've got the right players. I would expect that these players do go home and perform well in national league and they are the group of players that we go to. We've got some good players back home too, so they'll press for selection. It's a lot of cricket to be seen. Eliza Sewell is travelling courtesy of Cricket Australia