Australia all-rounder Grace Harris’s “robust as nails” second from the WBBL 2025 match on Sunday grabbed social media consideration after the all-rounder continued to play on with a cut up webbing.
Bowling whereas defending a 150-run goal in opposition to the Adelaide Strikers on Sunday in North Sydney, the Aussie all-rounder injured her non-bowling hand whereas trying to cease a shot from England batter Tammy Beaumont within the tenth over; the seam of the bowling ball did the harm.
Virtually nonchalantly, Harris knowledgeable the umpire that, “It’s my non-bowling hand. So I can tape it up,” signalling out to the dugout for the physio for a fast repair.
“I simply must tape it up and I can maintain bowling. It’s no large deal. We’ll simply get blood on the ball. We will sew it up later,” she stated, leaving commentators tickled.
Three stitches later
“It is cut up. We’ll sew it after.”
Grace Harris splits the webbing on her hand … and barely reacts! pic.twitter.com/Ncv41WPwMr
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Harris would emerge because the decide of the Warmth bowlers, snapping up two wickets in 4 overs for 28 runs. The senior Australia all-rounder, nonetheless, couldn’t forestall her facet’s six-wicket defeat.
Harris’ gritty episode introduced again recollections from final season for followers and commentators alike, when she smoked a six with a damaged bat. Acknowledging a damaged bat whereas talking via the microphone to the commentators then, Harris couldn’t usher in a alternative in time, prompting her to proceed with the shaky willow.
‘Stuff it, I’ll hit it anyway,” stated Harris earlier than tonking the ball with the damaged bat over broad long-on for six.
Recovering from a calf pressure that stored her out of the 2025 Girls’s ODI World Cup in India and Sri Lanka, Harris is getting ready to return to India for the 2026 Girls’s Premier League. After taking part in three seasons for the UP Warriorz, she was signed up by Royal Challengers Bengaluru for INR 75 Lakh in the course of the mega public sale’s accelerated spherical final week in New Delhi.