Australia’s best all-round female cricketer Ellyse Perry has endorsed herself fit to grace the Olympic Games in 2028. Cricketer Perry, who clinched the gold with Australia at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, is happy to participate since cricket is set to return to the Olympics as a part of the Los Angeles games in 2028 after having left on 1900.
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The thirty three year old confesses that she has not thought about her overseas retirement but sees herself as a probable Olympian. Perry, who is leading Birmingham Phoenix at The Hundred, told the BBC:Perry, who is leading Birmingham Phoenix at The Hundred, told the BBC:
“I don’t think I’m the kind of person that wants to pin a date on a retirement. I’ve never looked at it like that. If I’m still there and available and good enough, I’d like to be there. I haven’t set a target on playing at the Olympics, but if I’m still around and good enough, I’d absolutely love to be there,”
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“We still have an awesome opportunity to go out there, do everything we can to play entertaining and exciting cricket.”“There’s a really nice feeling, not just amongst our group but the whole competition. It’s been a really successful one for the English cricket landscape,” she added.
More so Phoenix women have had 13 successive defeats in The Hundred women’s competition, which are 2022, 2023 and 2024. Perry had not played in the last season because of a knee operation. As a reference, the Birmingham-based franchise recorded negative results in the 2023 edition of the fixture, to be precise, it suffered eight league defeats. Their last match and current achievement was they defeated the Northern Superchargers on the date of 19-08-2022.