At the historic Ashes Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, where Australia defeated England by an innings and 122 runs to collect an Ashes series whitewash across the past month, Darcie Brown played her role as a firebrand quick. 

Captain Alyssa Healy won the toss and elected to bowl on Day One, Thursday, January 30, in this inaugural Day-Night Pink Ball Test at the ‘G’. 

Brown collected her first wicket from the first ball of her fourth over, Tammy Beaumont, LBW, and would finish the day with 2/47 from 18 overs, which included four maidens. 

Her second scalp came in the night session (and she should have had a third scalp), when debutant Georgia Voll dropped a regulation chance at slip. 

Her elite fielding skills effected a run-out for the final wicket of the first innings, running out English Number 11, Lauren Bell. 

After the Aussies batted all through Day Two and into Day Three, making 440 (Brown 0* facing three balls) the ‘Kapunda Quick’ got the ball rolling in England’s second innings. 

She clean-bowled English opener, Maia Bouchier, for one from the fifth ball of her second over of the innings. 

As the spinners, Alana King and Ashleigh Gardner, ripped through the rest of the English batters, Brown finished with the second innings analysis of six overs and one wicket at the cost of 14, for the match figures of 24 overs, four maidens, 3-62. 

Brown also took a pair of catches in the field during the second innings off the spinners. 

Celebrations went long into the evening, after the Ashes’ white-wash across this series.