Ellyse Perry needs little in the ways of introduction. A multi-sport athlete who evolved into one of the most dominant cricketers of all time, Perry is a multiple-time Belinda Clark Award winner, swept the ICC’s Awards for the best players of the 2010s back in 2020, and was also named amongst Wisden’s Five Cricketers of the Decade. 

The 2020s, however, got off to a bittersweet start for Perry. A key figure in the promotion of the 2020 World Cup in Australia, she suffered a torn hamstring against New Zealand during that tournament. After a few false starts, she made her domestic return for the Sydney Sixers during the 2020 WBBL and an eagerly anticipated international return against New Zealand in March of this year. 

Now, despite the COVID and international travel restrictions doing their best to scupper the tour, Perry has been named in the Australian squad to face India in a multi-format series set to commence with a one-day match at the Great Barrier Reef Arena in Mackay on September 21. 

In conversation with ESPNcricinfo’s Andrew McGlashan, Perry spoke on the coming tournament, a jam-packed upcoming schedule that features a WBBL season, an Ashes, One-Day World Cup and then a Commonwealth Games, the growth of the women’s game and much more.

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