ORANGE product Edwina Bone continues her quest for Olympic Games selection this month, with her Hockeyroos set to kick off a six-game series against Great Britain on Friday, in Perth.

The series forms an early component of the Australian women’s preparations for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and follows on from four tests against the Netherlands and Germany at the TPG International Tri-Series in Singapore last month.

While Bone is a veteran of just under 100 appearances for the Hockeyroos, and was a part of the 2014 Commonwealth Games gold medal-winning side, she’s still expected to face a fight for selection.

Bone remains in a transition period, with Hockeyroos coach Adam Commens previously expressing his desire to transform the 27-year-old from and out-and-out defender into a defensive midfielder.

While she is expected to play, and start, a number of the matches Commens has a 29-strong group at his disposal, including uncapped development squad players Jocelyn Bartram, Madi Ratcliffe and Kaitlin Nobbs.

“Singapore was a great opportunity to expose our entire squad to top level competitive hockey. The games against Great Britain give us another opportunity to use the full depth of the group against a high quality international opponent that is improving all the time,” Commens said.

“It’s great to have access to our entire training squad. It’s unlikely we’ll use some of our younger players but to have them here training with us means we have some talented youngsters to draw on if need be.

“The matches against Great Britain will help shape our thoughts leading up to the Hawke’s Bay Cup, which is when we’ll begin to narrow our focus towards the team for the Champions Trophy and Olympic Games.”

Following the Hawke’s Bay Cup in April Australia’s women will host New Zealand, India and Japan in a four nations event in Darwin in early June.

The Champions Trophy - in London in late June - is the final tournament for the Hockeyroos before Olympic selection.