RCB’s Ellyse Perry in motion in the course of the WPL match between Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bangalore
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She can bend it like Beckham. She is thought extra for swinging it like Anderson, although.
Ellyse Perry is actually particular. How many athletes have been ok to play the World Cups in two totally different sports activities?
She is, of course, considered one of the all-time greats in ladies’s cricket, however she is amazingly gifted as a footballer as effectively. Just rewind to the aim she scored for Australia towards Sweden within the 2011 FIFA Women’s Football World Cup in Germany.
She really bent it like Beckham — from the sting of the field to the highest nook of the online. For Perry that aim now virtually looks like from one other life.
“It all happened so long ago, but I loved playing football and it was an amazing opportunity to do that,” Perry, who’s one of the most important points of interest on the Women’s Premier League, tells The Hindu. “And it helped me as an athlete in general.”
Her athleticism price India dearly on the latest T20 Women’s World Cup in South Africa lately. Her dash and dive to cease on the boundary line when India wanted 18 off the final 9 balls to win the semifinal was one of one of the best bits of fielding in worldwide cricket, male or feminine, of late.
Perry, a real all-rounder who may stroll into a aspect both as a batter or a bowler, says India was unfortunate to lose that sport to Australia. “It is another example of the incredible competition we have had with India in international cricket in the last five years,” she says.
“India played incredibly well, but we hung in there and took the opportunities that came our way.”
Australia went on to win the World Cup beating South Africa within the last. She thus took her tally of World Cups to eight.
Focus now on WPL
Perry’s focus for the time being is on the WPL. She is delighted that she has joined Royal Challengers Bangalore.
“We have assembled a good squad,” she says. “We have some great domestic players. RCB has certainly done a good job at the auction.”
Perry thinks the WPL goes to be phenomenal. “The scale of the WPL is unrivalled by any other women’s competition in the world,” she says. “And it will create an amazing depth of talent in Indian cricket.”
The WPL is ready for some memorable performances from the lady who has 4921 runs and 283 wickets in worldwide white-ball cricket, to not point out a Test batting common of 75.2.
