Australia captain Alyssa Healy says the Women’s Ashes day-night Test likely won’t break all-time attendance records, but is excited to keep trying new things to move the game forward.

Healy was speaking to ABC Sport two weeks before the first game of the multi-format series and just over a month before the start of the day-night Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground to wrap up the Ashes.

The last time a Women’s Ashes series featured a pink-ball Test was 2017, when Ellyse Perry scored a double century in front of a few thousand people at suburban North Sydney Oval.

The Fig Tree Lane venue may have been closer to capacity than the 100,000-seat MCG will be come the 2025 edition, but Healy said she would rather try something new and exciting than play it safe.

“We’re acutely aware that there’s not going to be 87,000 people coming through the gates on every day, but [someone] was asking me, ‘Would you rather play at North Sydney in front of 4,000 or challenge the norm and play at the MCG and see how many we can get?'” she told ABC Sport on day three of the men’s Boxing Day Test.

“For sure, the MCG. We grew up watching Test cricket just like everybody else and wanting to run out in our baggy greens.

“So, having that opportunity is really cool.”

Healy and the women’s team are no strangers to drawing a crowd to the ‘G having won the T20 World Cup in from of 86,174 fans in 2020.

The last time Australia’s women played a Test at the MCG was in 1949, meaning the first day of the Test will be 76 years exactly since day three of that game against England.

In that three-Test series, Betty Wilson topped the run-scoring for Australia, and the wicket-taking for both teams.

Healy said she recently donned Wilson’s playing kit for a promotional shoot and it was a good reminder of just how far the game has come.

“The culotte is no longer a thing, and the long sock — I can safely say that [uniforms have come a long way],” she said.

“I can’t imagine bending down behind the stumps wearing that … we look more like cricketers now thankfully. A lot more sun safety as well, which is good.”

The 34-year-old has not had to bend down behind the stumps of late after missing three ODIs against India with a knee injury before returning to play against New Zealand but not wicketkeeping.

Healy said she planned to take the gloves for the Governor-General’s XI game against England on January 9, three days before the first 50-over game of the Ashes.