Perry is currently in England preparing for this year’s T20 World Cup with a stint in T20 franchise cricket for the Birmingham Phoenix ahead of this year’s 20-over showcase in Bangladesh from the start of October.

Australia will be gunning for an unprecedented seventh T20 World Cup title at this year’s event, but the reigning champions face some stiff opposition from the likes of long-time rival England, recent Women’s Asia Cup champions Sri Lanka, Caribbean side West Indies and the always strong India.

England just completed an unbeaten summer at home against New Zealand with a sweep of both the ODI and T20I series and expects the European side to be one of Australia’s toughest opponents at the T20 World Cup.

“England have been in tremendous form and are playing some great cricket,” Perry said.

“Really excitingly there are a great number of younger players coming through on the domestic scene here.

“I don’t think there’s ever been a huge gap between England and Australia. The Australian team have had the knack of winning the big moments. All sides are playing really consistently now and have a really good handle of the way they want to play.”