No one is perfect, and no one should be made to feel like they have to be perfect. It's nice that we all have unique qualities that make us different as athletes and humans. That's why it's so important to surround yourself with people who truly care about you.
If you're going to do something, you should go all in and be absorbed in the process and want to do well and be OK with being really consumed by it. But at the same time, I guess the balance there lies in not letting the result define who you are as a person and your self-worth.
Sometimes I need people around me to remind me, to keep enjoying the small things.
Canberra always had a great sense of community when I was there.
I miss training for football and I miss playing matches.
My paternal poppa, Alec, was a taxi driver and swimming coach. He taught all his grandchildren how to swim and loved all kinds of sport.
I'm pretty shy. I'm so bad at public speaking. I can answer questions in front of a crowd, that seems to be fine, but standing up there by myself and delivering some kind of speech, I'm the worst. I hate it.
One of my favourite parts of training is doing it with Dad in the local nets. When I do that, I feel like a kid again. We never argue. He has to put up with some bad moods from me when I'm not hitting it as I'd like. He's very placid. He's not a pushy parent at all.
I love being put into situations which are competitive and tough and challenging.
A lot of my friends who were really sporty in year 7 and 8, in years 9 and 10 they stopped playing. It was a shame.
I guess from my perspective being a female athlete as well, there's probably not a huge amount of female athlete books out there.
When I started out there weren't even contracts for players and now all the girls on the team are full-time professional athletes, I guess seeing that evolve over a period of time has been incredible.
I play cricket. I'm a professional cricketer and I guess my job is to hopefully help Australia win games of cricket.
For me it was always about enjoying what I was doing and trying to get better, playing more and more sport.
For me, growing up and watching Test cricket and absolutely loving it, that's been the pinnacle for me with cricket.
Being together on the field as a group, operating as a team, making important plays is a great thing.
I didn't really want to write something about my life story. I've kind of had a pretty smooth-sailing journey.
A lot has evolved and changed in women's sport in the last 10 years - particularly football and cricket. So, I think my timing, in terms of being able to play both for a while, was fortunate.
Growing up, I did a lot of work that was technically based. So, I sort of feel that, no matter where you're playing, the basics are still the basics. Then it's just about adjusting on the day.
Put yourself into every situation in training and against every style of bowling, and do that for hours and hours and hours. Then when you get to a match, it's almost instinctive the way you play because you've done it so often in training.
