Backyard cricket is where it all started and it still provides me with the purest and freest memories of play. Hot summer days in my grandparents’ backyard in Rutherglen, Victoria with all the quirky traditions and hard fought competition that I think gave me the perfect foundation to understand and love the spirit of  the game.

From backyard to the joys of club cricket which for so long has given me a sense of belonging and connection as well as the opportunity to play, coach, develop and continue some of the best traditions of the game and also create some new ones.

And finally, the place where you’re truly tested and you experience the full gamut of emotions – playing for your country. From receiving one of the most iconic sporting items in Australia, the baggygreen, and wearing it while scoring a century on debut, to being dropped – numerous times – and faltering when it mattered most for the team. The roller coaster life of elite sport.

Away from cricket I’m a Melbourne girl at heart and it will always be home no matter where I am in the world. Having studied a Bachelor of Applied Science in Human Movement and then a Graduate Diploma in Secondary Education teaching at Victoria University I took myself off for 6 winters in a row coaching, developing and promoting girls’ cricket overseas. Three stints in South Africa and three playing and working for Surrey Country Cricket allowed me to coach from grassroots to elite, from townships to The Oval.

The next exciting phase was looking after some of Australia’s best athletes as a talent manager at Australia’s largest sports management agency, TLA. With predominantly female athletes and coaches across netball, cricket and the Olympics, it was one of my greatest challenges finding ways to support their sport and life careers, create commercial connections and expand people’s understanding of the similarities and differences found across men’s and women’s sport.

With an increasing commentary workload, I now find myself traveling the globe working on various International and Domestic cricket broadcasts.