Athlete

One of the main things I take away is just the way the boys approach the game and carry on. You are in the dressing room and it is very much just about getting in and doing as well as you can, putting everything you can and having fun. There is no underlying context to it other than just playing the game.

I know what sport has given to me in my life, what opportunities I've had and the lessons I've learned about myself and about life.

I play cricket. I'm a professional cricketer and I guess my job is to hopefully help Australia win games of cricket.

I'm quite different to my brother. As kids, I was his shadow - I always wanted to do things with him. I'm sure I cramped his style a little.

If you're going to do something, you should go all in and be absorbed in the process and want to do well and be OK with being really consumed by it. But at the same time, I guess the balance there lies in not letting the result define who you are as a person and your self-worth.

A lot of my friends who were really sporty in year 7 and 8, in years 9 and 10 they stopped playing. It was a shame.

I didn't really want to write something about my life story. I've kind of had a pretty smooth-sailing journey.

When I'm away from sport and not doing something I have much self-belief in, I can lack self-confidence at times.

I think sport can play a really positive role in young girls' lives and be great to see as many of them playing sport as possible.

For me it was always about enjoying what I was doing and trying to get better, playing more and more sport.

Sometimes I need people around me to remind me, to keep enjoying the small things.

Having success in World Cups is some of the biggest career highlights that I've had, but more generally speaking, the biggest highlight is just the development of the sport and being involved in this period of women's cricket, but also in women's sport in general in Australia, where it's been a bit of a watershed moment.

I'm quite shy and I absolutely love my job - if you'd call it a job - and I like everything that goes along with it, but I think away from that I'm probably no more interesting or special than anyone else, and so I really like just doing normal stuff, as I'm sure most people in our team do.

I miss training for football and I miss playing matches.

I'm not a particularly extroverted person.

Being together on the field as a group, operating as a team, making important plays is a great thing.

I think a lot of sporting organisations are really sitting up and taking notice, putting in some great programs and investing a lot into women's sports.

When I started out there weren't even contracts for players and now all the girls on the team are full-time professional athletes, I guess seeing that evolve over a period of time has been incredible.

If I have to do a speech, if there's no way I can get out of it, or if it's something I really should do, I won't sleep the night before. I'll feel ill the entire day leading up to it. I won't be able to eat if it's after a dinner, which makes things even worse.

No one is perfect, and no one should be made to feel like they have to be perfect. It's nice that we all have unique qualities that make us different as athletes and humans. That's why it's so important to surround yourself with people who truly care about you.