Imagine it or nor all-rounder Ellyse Perry is the final Australian to attain a aim in a soccer World Cup quarterfinal in Matildas’ 1-3 defeat in opposition to Sweden in 2011 FIFA World Cup.
The Australia ladies’s cricket crew all-rounder is delighted the how her former team-mates take the soccer world – and the Australian sporting public – by storm.
“I don’t suppose we’ve ever actually seen something like this,” Perry mentioned on Thursday.
“The extent that they’re taking part in at, the model that they’re taking part in, the superb leisure that they’re.
“Simply to see what these ladies have completed for not solely their crew however for this sport and for ladies’s sport – it’s simply been an outstanding match.”
The 32-year-old, Ellyse Perry would make it among the many prime sportspersons on the planet simply on the idea of her cricketing accolades is just participant ever to play in each ICC and FIFA World Cups.
Perry made her worldwide debut in soccer at 16 – taking part in her first match for Australia in opposition to Hong Kong in 2007. earned 18 caps and scored three objectives for Australia between 2007 and 2012.
Within the 2011 World Cup quarterfinal in opposition to Sweden, Perry has scored crew’s solely aim within the 1-3 defeat however it was one for the ages. Receiving the ball simply outdoors the field on the appropriate facet. Perry despatched a side-foot dipper over the goalkeeper into the web.
Perry, who performed as a defender has loved a superb profession in home soccer taking part in for Central Coast Mariners, Canberra United and Sydney FC with teammates Sam Kerr and Caitlin Foord.
She later sacrificed her profession in soccer trajectory for the bat-and-ball sport along with her cricketing profession exploding into superstardom from 2014.
Perry went on to win eight world titles with Australia, 11 Girls’s Nationwide Cricket League championships with NSW, and two Girls’s Large Bash League titles with the Sydney Sixers.
The all-rounder is at the moment recovering from a knee damage sustained final month in Eire.