Jake Weatherald

So, yeah, I was pretty prepared mentally for what was going on.

But at the same time, it's still a good learning curve, which is good.

It was purely my family situation.

I love my time in Tasmania.

I've been very open about the fact of how well they supported me and obviously got me to my dream of playing for Australia.

But my wife's business has gone really well and she lives in Adelaide and couldn't come down to Tassie very often and

Once the Cricket Australia contract was up, I had the opportunity to potentially come back to South Australia and live with her full-time again.

And we'd spent a fair bit of time away from each other for the last three and a half years.

And potentially the opportunity to have a start of family and stuff like that and settle back into home life here would be the best thing for me and my wife.

So that was just purely a family-based thing.

And obviously, I'm coming back into a successful environment and an environment where a lot of my close mates still play.

So...

I'm very lucky, and I was very lucky that Tassie was so supportive.

Yeah, it sort of just, you know, it sort of looks sometimes from the outside like I've just come back into a winning side, but at the same time, yeah, I'm there just to add what I can, and at the same time, like, I'm eternally grateful to Tassie Cricket.

You know, they allowed me to fulfil my dream, so, you know, I'm not going to take that away from them.

They were amazing at supporting me.

Yeah, awesome, challenging and confronting at times, especially with

Just everything that goes around it, especially when you play first-class cricket, your game's never scrutinised half as much.

So for me, it was trying to get the fact that people that you respect and admire so much are pulling apart your technique or saying things about your game.

Thankfully, it was all pretty positive, but at the same time, there was a lot of things I could learn.