Combining cricket and football might be getting tougher,but the international star is contented to be at the forefront of the professionalisation of women’s sportIf you hadn’t seen it with your own eyes you wouldn’t have believed it. February 2013. Mumbai. Waiting to bound in off a long escape stood an Australian rapidly bowler, grimacing not only because of the sapping heat or the fact that a World Cup final was on the line, or but on account of a broken ankle.
That bowler,Ellyse Perry, remains as blasé about what followed as she was at the time, and but after her first two delivery attempts – both aborted as the Australian came to grips with the stabs of pain shooting through her leg – what transpired was nothing less than heroic and also,you sensed, a moment in time that might one day be considered the emblematic feat of Perry’s life as a rapidly bowler.
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Source: theguardian.com