Cricket ‘Legend’ and all-rounder Ellyse Perry entered the record books on Saturday to become Australia’s most capped female player across all formats, surpassing Alex Blackwell.
The 30-year-old broke Blackwell’s record of 251 appearances for the Australian national women’s team after taking the field against India Women for the second of three T20I games at the Carrara Oval.
This is Perry’s 252nd match across all formats since making his debut in 2007. Alyssa Healy is currently in third place with 207 matches while Meg Lanning is in fourth place with 205 matches.
Perry became the first Australian woman to take 300 international wickets during the recently concluded four-day pink ball Test.
The all-rounder is also the first woman in international cricket with a double of 5000 runs and 300 wickets. In her 14-year long career, Perry has earned 9 Test caps, 118 ODI caps and 124 T20I caps, the most by an Australian female cricketer.
Perry’s rise has seen her as one of the leading players of her – or of any – generation, as well as a global icon of sports and women’s sport. She became the youngest Australian ever to play international cricket when she made her debut in the second ODI of the Rose Bowl series against New Zealand in July 2007, before her 17th birthday.
Her future in cricket was secured when she was among the first female cricketers to be signed by Cricket Australia in 2008. Later, she went on to represent Australia in World Cup football, becoming the first woman to represent the country in the world. Cup in two games.
Perry started off as a fast bowler in the Australian team. However, she gradually became known as an all-rounder after some amazing performances with the bat as well.
Perry made his Test debut against England in 2008 and his credentials as an all-rounder grew between 2014 and 2019, when he produced astonishing Ashes returns that included a double century in Sydney and another at Taunton. In 2015, when she missed with the bat, she took nine wickets to help Australia secure the Ashes.
She was also a part of Australia’s T20 World Cup campaign on home soil in 2020 but suffered a hamstring injury during the group match against New Zealand, which ruled her out by knockout. However, she was there to lift the trophy with her team in front of 86,000 people at the prestigious MCG.
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