Ellyse Perry
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So those three big leagues are amazing opportunities and most of the top players will play in those.
And there's lots of international cricket.
So, yeah, I mean, it's kind of phenomenal how often you can be away playing cricket now as opposed to, as I said, like when I first started, our captain, Karen Rowland, worked for Australia Post most of the year and just came away on tours.
She was a postie?
I think she sorted the mail in the... Oh, my God.
Yeah, I know.
Like, it's just... Yeah, it's terrible.
Yeah, and I mean, like, I think all of us have an incredible sense of, like, gratitude to... They paved the way.
Yeah, totally.
And I mean, that's like anything in life.
It's about timing, isn't it?
Yeah.
But yeah, like, I mean, to think that that was...
Maybe 18 or 19 years ago.
It's not that long ago to see where it is now.
And it's certainly not objectively about the money, but, you know, girls earning incredible wages, you know, more than kind of you'd ever imagine in such a short period of time.
It's been phenomenal.
Yeah, yeah.
I really hope so, but I also really hope young boys are as well.
And that's resoundingly been one of the coolest things, I think, in the last five or six years is β