Ellyse Perry

But it's also nice to get away and, like, you know, get a perspective on the world and on life as well.

Yeah, well, funnily enough, I actually did that this morning.

Did you?

I flew in from Thailand and literally that whole scenario is what you're describing.

And there is something about it.

Like it just, yeah, like it's probably the most patriotic I ever feel.

It's kind of like, yeah, that looking out the window on a Qantas flight with some kind of like backing track from some Australian artist.

And you're just like, oh, yeah, like I know what it feels like to be Australian.

Like sharing what I've been able to achieve with my, firstly, more than anyone, my family, like my mum and my dad and my brother has been like probably the most incredible part of it all.

As I said, like dad took me to the cricket nets.

And still did until very recently, like four hours and hours and hours.

And we never, ever had a conversation about playing for Australia.

It was just about enjoying our time together, learning.

He was a school teacher and loved sport.

He coached all the sporting teams at school.

And it's just like a passion of his that he's passed on to me.

Yeah.

I guess like every time I'm playing a game and I spot them in the crowd, like I don't think there's a better feeling than that in terms of like enforcing what I enjoy doing.

Yeah, like, fairly regularly.

I mean, they're total creatures of habit, so they kind of sit at the same spot.