Ellyse Perry

But there is a sense of, like, unexplainable.

And I think it comes from, like, this –

ability to just like exist in an environment without any like pre-existing thoughts um and it's amazing what your body and your brain is capable of when you stop piloting it but you can only get to that point by piloting it for a long time and working really hard and practicing things and being really deliberate so it's kind of like this duality of like

being so like um driven and in control of your preparation and then at some point at the right point knowing when to let go of the reins and just free fall is it really just confidence as a result of the amount of practice you've done or is it actually as the balls are leaving the hand actually you're pretty sure you know which way is going to bounce

Like I don't necessarily know.

Like I think sometimes I think yes, absolutely, and other times I think maybe not.

Yeah, like you try and watch as closely as you can, as silly as it sounds, but like, yeah, you try and watch the ball.

But I think some days it's almost like I don't really need to focus on it coming out of her hand because I kind of know where it's going to go.

And whether that's just like I've played this person a lot, I sort of have a sense of what they're trying to do, or it's like –

Yeah, other days, you know, you're probably piloting a bit more and you're really trying to make things work.

Yeah.

The best days by far are not piloting.

But the kind of really cool thing is you can still be super effective when it's not flowing for you as best as you'd like.

There's still lots of tools that you can use that you might have to pilot a bit more, but you can still be effective and do a role.

Oh, they're amazing now.

Yeah, they are.

Yeah, it's been truly phenomenal really to see the growth and development of the game.

So yeah, a lot of those major franchise leagues that the men play in are now available for the women.

So we've got the Big Bash here in Australia, the WPL, which is the IPL in India.

and the 100 in the UK.