Ellyse Perry deserves more recognition

Problem is she hasn't played for the Matilda's football team for some time and has been left out of the last few squads. She may play for Sydney at football but I can't see her playing at national level for a very long time. I think the whole two sport argument is dead.

We met Elyse Perry at the Cricket World Cup in Barbados a few years ago. We were working as global ambassadors for fuel efficiency at the time and we had a good chat to the ladies cricket team who were staying at the same Hotel. We were extremely impressed at how humble she was and also what a beautiful, respectful person she is. If we were to see more on TV and in print media of quality people like Elyse the world can become a better place. Too much time is given to those who are far from role model material. We at The Australian Book of Records applaud Elyse Perry!

It seems that rarely you see mens tennis featuring "slugging it out". I very seldom watch Mens tennis and pick and choose what womens games I watch. Personally I hate aces, tennis should feature rallies between the players and this is disappearing from the game. I prefer a game that features volleys at the net, and not the shoes.

There are several examples of cricketers who also played football, but most of them were a while ago. Seven men have played for NSW in cricket and rugby league, the most recent being Graeme Hughes in 1975. Bronco Djura who played league with Souths, Saints and Wests was an Australian schoolboy in cricket and Andrew Fitzhenry gave up his league career but kept playing cricket with Balmain as a wk. Warwick Armstrong and Keith Miller were both good AFL players, Warney was a junior star. Otto Nothling was a RU international and there were several English cricketers who were good soccer players; CB Fry, Denis Compton and Willie Watson among them! Bit harder to do these days, which makes the effort of Ellyse all the more special. Go girl!

Totally agree. I cannot recall a better Australian sports person. Not only a representative in 2 sports, but she excels at them both.

They couldn't do any worse. Especially swapping her for Sabburg for the Heat.

This was a while ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45pk0kczO98

The last guy I know of who did it at professional level was in the US where Deion Sanders played both Major League Baseball and NFL football. He's the only player to play in their "World Series" of American baseball and the Superbowl. I think there have been many over there who've played multiple sports at College level but then basically had to choose which of them to go professional in. Probably with women's sport not being as professional as the others it's more possible there. It's a bit more like much of the men's sport was 40-50 years ago when you did see that sort of thing more often.

It's probably about the 12-13 age group where you need to start separating them. As the guys hit puberty and start growing and getting stronger. 12-13 would probably be fine together, definitely by 14-15 you want to have them separate otherwise the girls just start falling too far behind the guys in the teams.

Oh, and I do agree that even really good looking female athletes often don't exactly look hot and sexy when they are on the field playing. But often the guys don't either, but that doesn't stop women turning up to watch these guys they really like the look of. Maybe the fact that you've seen them done up and looking nice and have that picture in your head is good enough...

I'm not a huge tennis fan, but I don't mind it, and a really good game is pretty good to watch. Watching some of the top male tennis players you just see amazing shots played that should be instant winners, but not only does the other guy get there, get his racquet on it and get it back but plays an incredible shot of it, and on it goes. You see that sort of stuff regularly in men's tennis. In women's tennis unfortunately you generally see complete mismatches, very often even in the finals. You rarely see the two players slugging it out with incredible shots in a tight contest like you do with the men's.

Exactly, in my early-20s I'd have bowled at 120km/h or so comfortably and quite comfortably face that sort of pace. I think I'd quite happily face Elise Perry's pace. It would be quicker than what I mostly face these days in low grade park cricket, but I'd get used to it pretty quickly and probably do okay. But there is no way I'd face up to Brett Lee or Mitchell Johnson or the like. Not a chance. No interest in getting hit by balls that I haven't even seen coming.

Yes, it is. When they first brought out the HD channels they would sometimes show sports events on both the main channel and the HD channel, but that lasted a month or two. It would be good if they could just go fully HD instead of just having one channel each that's HD with the rest being SD. But now the Analog signal is switched off and there's no excuse for saying that things have to be shown on the "main" channel, it would be good to get to a point where all the sport is shown on GEM, 7MATE, ONEHD rather than the main SD channels.

Top effort by Perry in the test. Topper combined effort by the English.

without Googling, I pride myself on being able to name a few, and am embarressed and apologise to the girls I can't remember, it's got nothing to do with their talent, just my poor memory !! Excuse the spelling though, Elyse Villani, Jesse Cameron (can bat), Meg Lanning, Alex Blackwell, Holly Furling(exciting debutant), Allysa Healey, Julie Hunter(can bowl), Megan Schutt, Jodie Fields, Sarah Elliott..... That's about as far as I can go. I say take the time to follow them, most have a twitter account.

There's this small town in Punjab called Phagwara,where a school claims itself to be of "international standard" and have the photos of Brett Lee,Mike Hussey and Perry as its brand ambassadors in many posters all around the city! People in India barely know any woman cricketer(which is a shame) except 1 or 2 retired names and there i see a beautiful and talented Australian Woman cricketer's photo in a small town of Punjab.I certainly think she gets a lot of recognition than many other women sportspersons. And as a concerned Indian citizen where crimes against women have risen to scary levels ,i am definitely in favour of these women sportspersons getting more and more recognition.This will have a big impact in the thinking of modern India and hopefully lead to better conditions for women. The women cricket matches are telecasted in India when England and Australia come visiting but the crowd levels are dismal by indian cricketing standards and there is no publicity in either the print or online media.I do hope that many more women sports superstars come up and help their sport get more recognition.

Wasn't it only in the last few months that she played in Melbourne for soccer and they deliberately targetted her. I think she ended up getting 8 stitches in her leg because they were deliberately kicking her. After that they went to Brisbane and the Brissie coach said there was no way the Brissie team would treat her like that and that she deserved to be respected. She has got balls of steel that girl, cops it day in and day out from some of the soccer people. One day she will probably have to make a choice, but for now why can't both sports enjoy having her.

The Thunder or the Heat should sign her up. Why not?

What are you whining about then, Precious?

Unfortunately, 120 to high 130's is a world away. Part of the difficulty that women's cricket has in appealing to the mass market, as I see it, is that we expect the exceptional from our top athletes. However, there are plenty of park bowlers (let alone grade cricketers) who can bowl quicker than 120. Most elite female athletes are far beyond the realms of the ordinary bloke.