A biography for Ellyse Perryhasn’t been written yet.
“For me, growing up and watching Test cricket and absolutely loving it, that's been the pinnacle for me with cricket.”
“My mum, Kathy, works as a GP and my dad, Mark, was a high school maths teacher. He now manages mum's practice and is also my cricket coach. We are a close-knit family.”
“Honestly, direct monetary comparisons aren't helpful. If you're going to look at remuneration, you have to be realistic about what revenue we're bringing in for the organisation and the sport. And as it currently stands, women's cricket is still a cost to the business.”
“Put yourself into every situation in training and against every style of bowling, and do that for hours and hours and hours. Then when you get to a match, it's almost instinctive the way you play because you've done it so often in training.”
“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'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'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.”
“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.”
“Growing up, I did a lot of work that was technically based. So, I sort of feel that, no matter where you're playing, the basics are still the basics. Then it's just about adjusting on the day.”
“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.”
“We've still got some of our best friends living in Canberra and I still do some training with one of the strength and conditioning coaches at the Brumbies.”
“Canberra always had a great sense of community when I was there.”
“I'm pretty shy. I'm so bad at public speaking. I can answer questions in front of a crowd, that seems to be fine, but standing up there by myself and delivering some kind of speech, I'm the worst. I hate it.”
“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.”
“My paternal poppa, Alec, was a taxi driver and swimming coach. He taught all his grandchildren how to swim and loved all kinds of sport.”
“For me looking at the success of some of the women's football World Cups, the crowds they've drawn, the spectacle it has created and the event that it's been I think it's really great cricket is having a go at that as well.”
“I miss training for football and I miss playing matches.”
“I guess from my perspective being a female athlete as well, there's probably not a huge amount of female athlete books out there.”
“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.”
“I just enjoy batting. I love it. It's a craft and I love plugging away at it. I guess getting to do that in a match was the ultimate pleasure to be out there and do something I've been doing for a long time.”