March 13 (Punjab Khabarnama): There are very few things athlete Ellyse Perry can’t do. One of the best fielders in the world, he is a threat to batsmen trying to find the boundary. His batting was always incredibly efficient, it has become even better with the changing times. He is a footballer, in more than one sense of the word. She has scored a goal for the Matildas in the FIFA Women’s World Cup and also helped Australia win the Cricket World Cup by deflecting the ball with her feet.But it all started with the ball in hand. Not only in his international career, but right from his childhood. Perry took after her brother Damien, three years older, and tried to do everything he did. He remembers his father Mark teaching him to bowl in the kitchen one night. “I was like ‘Oh, I want to learn this’. “After that we were hanging out in the backyard,” Perry said in an interview with the Royal Challengers Bangalore digital team last year.And dad was showing us how to do this perfect movement of throwing a cricket ball.”The journey that started in that kitchen led to a remarkable night in Delhi as he bowled his best spell so far in the brief history of the WPL and his T20 career, taking 6 for 15 in a spectacular display of stump-to-stump seam . The bowling that took RCB to the WPL playoffs.In that video interview, after being introduced as ‘So far, the G.O.A.T.’, Perry looks down at the floor and shakes her head with a shy smile. He may not be comfortable with the compliment, but based on the evidence of what the more than 22,800 fans saw at Arun Jaitley Stadium on Tuesday night and what they have seen for many years, it is hard to argue against this sentiment.
