Ellyse Perry is preserving an open thoughts about the remainder of her excellent worldwide cricket profession, saying enjoying 400 matches may very well be possible.
The allrounder will change into the primary Australian lady to make 300 worldwide appearances when India host the second match within the groups’ Twenty20 collection in Mumbai on Sunday.
Perry is an all-time nice of Australian sport and key to the continuing success of the nationwide ladies’s group.
Requested whether or not reaching 400 video games is a purpose, Perry mentioned she had set no ceiling on her enjoying profession.
“I do not know what’s in retailer … but when it is meant to be down the observe and I am nonetheless round enjoying … I am actually open to what occurs,” she mentioned from India.
“I haven’t got a set time-frame on it. Both method it does not actually matter, it is simply one other quantity.
“For so long as I can contribute to the group and it is one thing I discover actually motivating and fulfilling, I might like to be right here.”
Perry was neglected of Australia’s T20 group early in 2022, however reshaped her recreation to return as an integral participant.
The 33-year-old has additionally bowled much less since a severe hamstring damage in the course of the 2020 World Cup.
The important thing for Perry individually, and for the omnipotent Australia group, is to maintain evolving.
India have overwhelmed Australia in a Take a look at for the primary time on this tour and the house facet additionally gained their opening T20 conflict, whereas the vacationers swept the one-day collection in between.
“It is a good time for us, of evolution. You have seen loads of that in the way in which that Phoebe Litchfield has carried out in these one-day matches; Annabel Sutherland, her final 12 months,” Perry mentioned.
“That is one thing we’re extremely acutely aware of – (to) preserve the success we have had, however equally evolve that, to look slightly bit completely different in the way in which the group performs.
“The sport is shifting at such a speedy tempo. There is a new setting.
“In loads of methods the sky is the restrict by way of the place it might probably go.”
Perry paid tribute to her household, saying she relishes nonetheless having internet classes along with her dad Mark.
“Each time, he bowls me. Typically phrases, Dad will all the time have my measure,” she mentioned.
Perry has been a key determine within the speedy rise of girls’s cricket, which attracted 86,000 followers to the MCG to observe Australia win the 2020 World Cup remaining.
“My first recreation in Darwin, there have been most likely about 30 folks,” she mentioned, recalling her 2007 debut.
“It continues to blow my socks off when stuff like that occurs, which has been a real privilege.”
