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November 21, 2024 24 mins

In Episode 13 of When I Grow Up, Sienna and her dad, Ben, chat with two stars of New Zealand’s White Ferns cricket team, Maddy Green and Izzy Gaze. Just weeks ago, the duo helped secure a historic victory, bringing home the T20 World Cup trophy – the first-ever win for New Zealand in T20 cricket, for either women or men. And yes, they brought the trophy into the studio!

Episode Highlights

  • Overcoming Adversity: The White Ferns entered the World Cup after a tough losing streak of 10 matches in a row. Maddy and Izzy share how the team turned things around, rebuilt their confidence, and stayed mentally strong even when the odds were stacked against them. They also discuss the challenges of competing in a sport where a career can be unpredictable and short-lived.
  • The Thrill of Victory: Maddy and Izzy recount the surreal moments of winning the World Cup, from the final ball to the epic celebrations that lit up social media. They dive into the outpouring of support and how they’re planning to use the prize money.
  • Being Part of the Change: Both players took unique paths to the team. Maddy, a hard-hitting batter, came up during a time when cricket players had to juggle other jobs, while Izzy, a wicketkeeper and batter, joined the team in the era of full-time professional contracts. They reveal what it’s really like to travel the world playing the game they love and how their victory has inspired the next generation of young girls to pick up a bat and ball.

Packed with inspiring advice for future sports stars and heartfelt reflections on playing cricket professionally, these two world champions also share the lessons they’d tell their younger selves.

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Each episode of ‘When I Grow Up’ aims to showcase inspirational females from around Aotearoa and shine a light on them, what it takes to do their job and learn about their story of how they got to where they are so that Sienna can help make up her mind.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Heads podcast network mine never seeing it and this
is my dadmin. Hi, And when I grow up, I
want to be a TikTok start right, or a sports
player okay, hang on ye even a fashion designer. Actually
maybe in all the players.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Okay, okay, slow down. Maybe we should talk to some
amazing females who inspire you and who.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
You want to be, like, yeah, and we can find
out what they did to get where they are.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yes, and let's do it as a TV show.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
No, Dad, only old people watch TV. They do it
as a podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Okay, yeah, yeah, I guess that works.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Next, this is when I grow up. Today's podcast features
two of the White Ferns, the New Zealand women's cricket team,
who are the talk of the cricketing world.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
I know, how cool is that?

Speaker 1 (00:46):
I know your favorite game.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
I'm excited about talking about cricket. But I'll try and
play it cool, right.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yeah, that'll be very hard to be now. Only a
few weeks ago, the White Friends won the ICC T
twenty World Cup.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
That's a hard thing to say in it.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
It is very hard, but they won that after feeding
South Africa in the final by a thirty two run.
It was awesome and the celebrations were epic too. And
two of the stars kindly popped in today to chat
to us about the trophy.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah, well about the game, and they bought the trophy,
haven't they.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah, that was really well.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
They talked about it. We did talk about the trophy, right,
as he goes Maddy Green, and both made the team
at a very young age. As he said, wicket keep
it bout out, just twenty years old, already played fifty
times for New Zealand, made a green a middle order
about speak sexist, and played hundreds of games with the
White fans over twelve years.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah, they have some great advice about how to deal
with highs and loads of sport, staying mentally tough and
following your dreams.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
You enjoy cricket, JE say to you that enjoy trick
chat my favorite.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Hey dad, when I grew up, I want to play
cricket for the White Ferns and be world champions, like
is he Gays and Maddie Green.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Well start you say that, because there's you know, I'm
a big cricket nerd. That's what I wanted to do
when I was young. I wanted to play cricket for
New Zealand. So it's ridly cool.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Here wait, how did that work out?

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Well, let's not go into that. Well obviously not great,
So anyway, let's focus on the people. It has gone grateful.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Okay, thank you guys so much for having a chat
with us, Thanks for having us.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Thank you. You brought the trophy as well. We've got Yeah,
how do you been trying to practice how to say it's?

Speaker 4 (02:10):
You know?

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Oh my god, icc T twenty world come you praakice
it so many times?

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Quite a heavy trophy, it is. It's unexpectedly heavy.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
You mean to be in white gloves like you're having
some sort of breakdancer or something or mine or something. Yeah,
it does. You guys don't have to do we white
gloves because you've won it, right, But for ask me immortals, it.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Picks up a few fingerprints. So yeah, we just had
Fletching Vaughn next door trying to clean it.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, it does need a little bit of stain or
some jiff on it as well. Congratulations are so awesome
that you guys won that.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Yeah, no, it was Awesomeing's put a bit of a
will win few weeks over and do bad. But yeah,
It's pretty cool to be able to achieve something like this,
and yeah, it's been a tough sort of period for
the girls, so to be able to turn it around
when it really matters get a World Cup's pretty epic.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah, what was it like having your dreams come true?
Winning that tournament took us through what happened in that
final game.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
Yeah, it was pretty special. I think going into the
final knowing that, you know, we could walk away with
the trophy was pretty surreal. And then to get out there.
We obviously had a great innings to start off, and
then the bowlers backed us up and we had a great,
great day in the field, and then that last over
came in and I was like, oh, we've actually got
this here, and then yeah, last will happened and the

(03:22):
fizt levels were.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Through the roof because the first time that New Zealand's
won and it means awms A Tea Twitty World Cup
and that's pretty incredible because you have dreamed to win
that going into the tournament and then also dream to
come on this podcast as well.

Speaker 4 (03:34):
I mean, yeah, the podcast has definitely top the trophy.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Ye.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yeah, look, I think probably going into the tournament, we
had a really tough six months from a results point
of view, and look, I think if we're really honest,
we probably wouldn't have thought this was going to happen.
So it was the stars sort of just aligned, and
we got a bit of momentum earlier getting into the
tournament and just sort of rode that wave. And Yeah,
everyone was just so calm throughout. It was just like
one of those things sometimes you get to a World

(04:02):
Cup and you get really nervous and the moment can
overawe you. But everyone was just so calm, and then
we just kept playing the way that we wanted to
and yeah, just sort of all aligne for us.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Well, the team came into the tournament having lost ten
games in a row.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Wait to bring the vibes.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Sorry, I was actually gonna ask, how do you keep
believing in yourself and the team when things aren't going
as well?

Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yeah, I think beliefs are core value of the White Ferns. Yeah,
we all stick around each other and we all had
to experience that low so we just had to back
each other up and keep backing our strengths and then
going into that tournament just believe.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Was that kind of the theme because we've got I
don't know if we can play this audio, so I'm
going to stop now, and if you hear it, we're
allowed to play it on the podcast. You guys singing

(05:06):
afterwards in the changing rooms, don't stop believing. Was that
kind of like the theme song for the tournament or
just my Chance or something? Was karaoke after you were celebrating?

Speaker 3 (05:14):
It kind of just happened to be by chart. Georgia
Plumber big fan of that song and she loves and
all sorts.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
It sounded like Dad doing car.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
We're not known for us singing ability, but we're not singers,
but yeah, Georgia loves that song anytime it sort of
comes on the team bushes up and down the aisle
of team bus spouting it out. So yeah, it was
cool for the girls for to be able to sing
that after the game.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
How many messages do you get after winning a trophy,
you know, like that's a World Cup like that? I
mean your phones must have just been full of DM's messages, right, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
Definitely, friends, family, random's.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
Famous people like people reach out to the team and
stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah, definitely we had lots of messages support from all sorts.
Of people around New Zealand. We really felt the love
sort of that that morning if we'd been waking up
New Zealand seeing the results. So it was pretty cool.
It was an awesome month for sport in New Zealand
sort of to be a part of that. Yeah, it
was pretty pretty awesome moment for the team.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
They called it our greatest ever a sporting weekend. I
think they were saying bick. Yeah, I mean, you know,
some feels like everything now is going to be disappointed. Yeah,
you see it in sport.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah, you all work so hard to get there and
to win, and you all got a well deserved, pretty
sweet payday for winning. Four million dollars for the team,
two hundred and fifty thousand for each player. Have you
thought about sponsoring a podcast?

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah, just sponsoring me is another option, but as well
as served as well. I mean, you guys, you know
have been playing well, Maddy, you've been playing for a
long time, going through the times where you weren't actually paid.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yeah, we used to turn up for meal money. It
was like thirty dollars a day or something. Really go
by your subway and that was pretty awesome. But yeah,
lot that the games come so far and the time
that I've been playing, and you know, the prize money
is awesome. It's not why you play, and you know,
to come away with a trophy and say that your
TEA twenty World Cup champions are sort of the ultimate goal,
I guess. But the prize is really awesome, and you know,

(07:01):
hopefully it's going to help set our girls up for
a period of their lives and help them do things,
buy houses and things like that that possibly might have
been out of reach for a few years. So it's
pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
It's amazing. I'm looking before. You know, Maddie, you've had
one hundred and eighty two games for the Yeah, for
the teenager. Oh yeah, over the years. It's pretty incredible.
Hold mate, is he over here? Rocks up what pretty
early on the career, gott to go bronze medal at
the Commonwealth Games, got a World give World Cup as well.
You're like, this cricket stuff is easy.

Speaker 4 (07:29):
Yeah, obviously the girls that have been playing for a
while you kind of sort of play for them and
what they've had to sacrifice through those years. But yeah,
pretty fortunate to be playing. And the time that you know,
women's cricket is at and hopefully it can just keep trending.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Does it make it more sweet for you, Maddy, going
through those ups and those down throughout your journey?

Speaker 3 (07:47):
Yeah, definitely. I think cricket and professional sport is pretty
brutal at times, and sometimes you can get caught up
and your own self worth and how you perform or
how the team performs. So yeah, look, it's about We've
talked about trying not to get two up or two
down with the wins or losses, and obviously you want
to celebrate your wins and this is a moment for

(08:07):
us as a team that's so special, so we want
to celebrate it. Such an awesome achievement. But yeah, as
you said, I've been through lots of downs and to
be able to achieve this, it's pretty special. And yeh yeah,
it's so cool for our group particularly some of the
old girls have been around for so long and we've
had a lot of heartbreak at these world tournaments, so they.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
Call it Old Girls as well. Some of them cat
called Grandmas and the team, right, they're not officially Grandmars.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Yeah, I think they're sort of South for self name,
but yeah, we've got a couple of girls we've got
Susan's been around for nearly twenty years playing for the
White Fans, and you we got then we've got some
young people out here we go. I think we've got
four twenty year olds. So it's cool to have such
a different age range and for some of that, Susie
achieving and still being at the top of your game
at that age is pretty inspirational. And yeah, I think

(08:49):
that's just also where women's sports going right as professionals
and hopefully keep playing for as long as you can
and as long as you're enjoying it and succeeding, which
Susan is doing. And you know, she's such an inspiration
for us and how she goes about things work ethic,
and you know, she's such a great person around the group.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah, and it's not like you get to play for
this team forever, right, So how do you make the
most of these moments and also not worry about what
could be around the corner?

Speaker 4 (09:12):
Yeah, I felt you just got to embrace, you know,
every time you get to put on the black jersey
and you know the team where it's at right now,
everyone's so close and the tours are just so much fun.
You get to spend a month long with your friends
and you know, playing cricket, which is what we love
to do. So it's just psaking up every moment.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
True, we just don't get into making TV shows because
that could get canceled the time it from me. All right,
don't segue into that.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
This is when I grow up. Let's go back to
the stuff for both of you. Is he you were
born in the Netherlands, live in Hong Kong and Singapore
and then moved to New Zealand at a young age. Maddie,
you were born in Auckland. Not quite as exotic as
when did you both fall in love with cricket? Because
the longer version of the game is ne.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
I got into cricket at campbell's Bury Primary School when
I moved here about seven years old. Principal would go
out there at lunch time and I got stuck into
it and then played a couple of zone days, signed
up at Takapuna Cricket Club and rest is history.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
I guess, yeah, And I think for me, I'm the
youngest of three daughters and both my oldest sisters hated cricket,
but my parents were cricket tragics. And so I think
I was their last hope. And we lived up the
road from a cricket club, par Ow Criite Club in Auckland,
and Mum and Dad, I remember when I was sort
of six or seven, took me down and signed me
up for juniors. Played with all the boys and my
friends at school, and I just have really fond memories

(10:36):
of playing sort of backyard cricket with my cousins and
things like that over summer. And yeah, I sort of
played every sport under the sun. Went to some girls
which is a great sporting school, and they sort of
gave me every opportunity to be successful. I played football
and even played did curling once each Yeah it was brogue.
I think it was just to get out of class.

(10:57):
But yeah, really fortunate sort of the opportunities have been
provided for me, and cricket was just what I was
good at and just just to see where the game's
gone now and the opportunities we get is pretty cool
and it's not it's not a usual job, and it's
pretty awesome as as you said. We get to travel
the world with friends and that's a really good time.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yeah, I was a cricket nerds I said before, And
I used to wear. I used to dress and white
clothing was sweet everywhere.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Baby photos are like total photos like oh this is
me again. I'm like, you are out in public wearing.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
The back Street Boys wearing a white at any stage
of that.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
You know.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
But you guys both made the team at a really
young age. I mean, is that intimidating?

Speaker 4 (11:32):
Is that scary?

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (11:34):
Yeah it was, I remember, you know, we just had
some When I first made the team a long time ago,
I was nineteen, but we had some senior players that
I'd looked up to a lot, and they were so
welcoming when I came into the team and took me
under their wing and looked after me, and yeah, I
just really enjoyed it. So I'd like to hope now
that that's what these younger girls think that we do.
And at the end of the day, we just want

(11:55):
people to come into the environment and enjoy themselves and
be able to express their skills and feel to do that.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
Yeah, I was terrified of Maddie. All the older girls
are so welcoming and growing up watching Susan so a lot.
Have some photos back when I was a little bit
younger and yeah, yeah, I need to play alongside them
was pretty pretty special.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
Well, cricket is a game that requires a lot of
mental strength, lots of concentration, and also there's a crowd, commentators,
the opposition trying to put you off your game with comments.
How do you stay mentally strong through all of that?

Speaker 3 (12:29):
Yeah, it's probably something for me. I didn't figure out
some sort of halfway in my international career. I've been
in another team a lot, and you know, mental skills
is a huge part of what we do. Like you said,
your ability to concentrate, to switch on and off between balls,
and be able to execute your skills under pressure. So
you know, we're lucky these days with a lot of
sport from mental skills sort of coaches and things like that.

(12:52):
It's not just about heading cricket balls. It's understanding you know,
how are you going to switch on? Like what's your
mental process and things like that, And I think cricket
teachers you to be really resilient and not get too
up or down with how you go. Otherwise it's it's
going to be a long career and I've certainly had
a lot more downs and ups, so.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
It's hard for the confidence yeah. It is, honestly one
of the big reasons I stopped playing. I think I
real doubt and people would say stuff, will be like, yeah,
you're right, I am too mean to me.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
Now go on, Okay, okay, you've run out of funny
ideas and you wrote your kids into them. He has
died blonde. Then you go through a midlife crime, really
like making.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
These are hard things to shake off. She's tearing up
on to the next question while I cry quietly in
the corner.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
But you both got really good at a young age.
But did you think that you could make it as
an international cricket player? Did you have a backup plan?

Speaker 4 (13:47):
I didn't really believe that I would make it that young,
but I definitely think it's something I wanted to do
since I was super young. So lucky to have reached
that goal. I definitely also wanted to play for the
Black Sticks growing up. I was a big, big hockey player,
and then you know plan B still figuring that out
outside of cricket. But yeah, sporting was my childhood and

(14:08):
you know, lucky to be doing that.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
Well.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
We talk about you know, getting paid, you know the
same as the men now, the payday as well, it
must be quite sweet because not too long ago, Maddie,
you were still working at with the AZ bank is.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
Yeah, So the first half of mine international career, I
was either studying full time or working full time, trying
to get that balance right. You know, I'd turn out
to work and I'd feel guilty that I had to
shoot off at lunchtime and go hit some credit balls
and then then have to go on a tour, and
I always felt guilty for leaving, and then I felt
guilty for not doing cricket one hundred percent. But you know,
at that point, we weren't getting paid to be full
time athletes. So it's really cool now where the sport's

(14:40):
got to and the opportunities that we get not only
in New Zealand to play for New Zealand, but overseas
as well. As you know that some of our girls
are playing in India and Australia and England, and yeah,
it's a pretty awesome sort of life that we lead
and the opportunities now for girls and cricket is so cool.
So hopefully this way people, young girls in particular, might

(15:02):
get inspired to play cricket and see, you know where
this game can take you.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
Can I talk to you still about my overdraft at
the ads or is it someone else now?

Speaker 3 (15:10):
No? I think after I went on long service cut
me off.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
Well, what advice would you have for someone listening who
dreams of wearing the silver fan like me?

Speaker 3 (15:21):
You're a bit late?

Speaker 2 (15:21):
Okay, sorry? Someone else?

Speaker 4 (15:23):
I think the big thing is to enjoy every moment
and to back yourself no matter what. Yeah, they'd be
my piece of advice.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
Yeah, it might be similar, like just if you're not
enjoying it, why you're doing it? And you know, for us,
we've got such a great group, so just enjoy it.
It's not always easy, but if you work hard. I
think that's the biggest thing I've seen through my career.
You see people that come in and just have this
determination to push themselves and to be the best that
they can be. And I think ultimately, if you work

(15:52):
hard at something, you're going to see rewards at some point.
And you know, for us, I think as a group,
we've been working so hard the last sort of eighteen
months and the results didn't always come and it was
a tough sort of period, but then to get to
this swell cup, it just proves to us. You know
that that hard work's be pain off.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
This is when I grow up. Can we check out
some quick Oh my god, quick quick cricket.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
You don't have the name of the title, okay, because.

Speaker 4 (16:20):
Dad knows a lot about cricket, but I don't.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
So there's hit. Oh my god, I cannot say cricket
quick fire quick. The cricket pool seems way too hard.

Speaker 4 (16:31):
How much does it hurt? Do you get bruises? Oh yeah,
I get covered and bruises. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I probably
should just use my hands. Yeah no, you didn't get
covered in bruises, but doesn't really hurt. You get used
to it.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
I think being part of a cricketer is having broken
fingers and that's just inevitable. So yeah, I don't think
there's been too many cricketers out there that wouldn't have
broken fingers or have bruises. And it is hard, but
you just get used to it.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
Out on Oh okay, you're outfielding for long periods of time,
Can you wear aar pods in the field listen to
this podcast while you're out there.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
That'd be cool. No, unfortunately not, We've got to be
pretty zoned in. But yeah, maybe for training. Sometimes at
training we have the music blasting or something going on
in the background.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
So yeah, okay, you both wand bronze medals, right come
Wealth Games? Where do you keep those? Like where they placed?

Speaker 4 (17:24):
Mine's just on a box sheelf the in the bedroom
and right beside my middle from the World cut. Not
too bad.

Speaker 3 (17:31):
Yeah, mine's locked away in some sort of drawer and
mum and Dad's hat.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
Okay, I'm trying to steal it. It feels like, yeah,
is he You're.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
A wicket keeper and super chatty on the field. Are
you worried about something that you said being caught the microphone?

Speaker 4 (17:46):
Yeah, I'm pretty cautious about that. Probably just yeah, making
sure I say the right things, but always aware that
the stump MIC's on. And then I like, I watch
back the and I'm like, I'm annoying.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
You know?

Speaker 4 (18:03):
Do I speak that much? So yeah, sometimes I forget
it's there, but constantly remind myself to I guess, not swear,
or not to get too enough, too caught up in
the moment. But it's it's good stuff.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
You smashed one hundred and twenty one runs off seventy
seven balls in one game, which is pretty impressive watching
last night. What's it like to hit a sex Like,
what's it to actually? Just like so one we're watching
at eating park, you cleared the ropes. What's that feeling like?

Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yea's sometimes funny because the hardy try to hit it.
Usually it comes off worse when you hit a six
and you just time it and it comes off and I, oh, okay,
that's yeah, it's pretty good. I probably don't have as
many as are used to, but yeah, it's nice to
be able to do that. Maybe I just need to
get back in the gym and on the guns.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
Whereas you do some pretty cool, tricky ramp shots when batting.
Are you worried about hitting yourself in the head?

Speaker 4 (18:51):
Now, not too worried. I've got a pretty bad track
record with concussions from so luckily we wear a helmet.
But it's a bit of a go to shot. So
I've definitely practiced hard on the nets. So kind of
back it almost.

Speaker 3 (19:04):
And it's kind of counterintuitive, like you've got to get
your head at the ball, which you kind of think
that's hard thing towards you. You want to get out
of the way, But as soon as you do that,
you take your a four, you're actually more of a
chance getting hit in the head.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Okay, all right, it looks it looks pretty cool when
you pull it off.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
All right.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
As you talked about before, you've traveled to some amazing places,
you know, South Africa, Western the Australia, England and the
UAE recently. Obviously, where's the coolest place you've been to
and to play cricket.

Speaker 4 (19:28):
Probably the Caribbean. You know, you're staying it on the
beach and then you rock up to the cricket field
and it's like a holiday and a tournament in one.
But it's yes, so special and I think they get
some pretty cool crowds in and you get to experience
the culture.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
So it's a hard part of the job to travel
as well. I remember, must be amazing, but also you're
away for long periods of time too. You know some
of the team mums as well, your partners. You know,
it must be tough.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
Yeah, I think it's not all glamorous. I think people
are like, oh, you're going to the Caribbean and you
go into England and you know, it's amazing. We're so
lucky where we get to see. But at the end
of the day. We're there for cricket, and we don't
necessarily always get to go on a holiday, so we're
there for cricket. You sit in the hotel room. Sometimes
you can sit in the hotel room by yourself, and
when the game's not going well, that can be a

(20:13):
lonely place. But yeah, obviously we've got people with families
and partners and things like that, and so sometimes it's
about managing that start of your life as well and
making sure everyone else is happy. And usually if that's
sort of a check, that helps you go out in
the field and play really well. So yeah, it's just
making sure that when we're home we make the most
of the time with our friends and family and make
sure we've sort of got that balance in our lives.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
I guess, do you guys have any unusual superstitions or
pregame virtuals?

Speaker 4 (20:39):
I wouldn't say there's too many superstitions. I like to
have my hair straightened.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Oh is it quite? Is it curly when it's not straight?

Speaker 4 (20:46):
No, just it's too hard to deal with that. You
should see. I plaid it when I keep, which is
a bit random because I straightened it. Yeah, Lahara for
and I spend about twenty minutes brushing it off of
the game. It gets so naughty.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
Okay, look good, play good? Yeah exactly at the motto
does that look good for good?

Speaker 4 (21:00):
Exactly? But not really don't want to get too superstitious enough.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
I think probably early on in my career I was
super superstitious, and I think cricketers in general are quite superstitious.
But you know, like if it had a good day,
I'd have to wear the exactly the same thing. So
the next game the same And it got a bit stupid,
and then you actually realize it's got absolutely nothing to
do with that.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
It's probably fair enough.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
Right, Well, before you guys go, can we do something?
This all that questions to find out if I really
want to be like you hitting a sex or making.

Speaker 4 (21:30):
A dive catch. Oh, making a dive catch.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
Okay, hitting a sex from you there? Okay?

Speaker 1 (21:38):
Unlimited snacks or unlimited Wi Fi unlimited snacks, Yeah, I'd
be the same. I love my food, Okay, dropping a
catch or screwing up a high five.

Speaker 4 (21:48):
Screwing up a high five, drop catches, they the same.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
Definitely only listening to your appearance music or having no
music at all?

Speaker 2 (21:56):
Okay, what's wrong appearance music.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
I think I grown as I've got older to appreciate
my parents music with that one.

Speaker 4 (22:04):
Yeah, I'll be the same Dad listens to the top fifty.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
Stuck in a rein de light or stuck in a
long boring team meeting.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
Winning it's quite long.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
No, we've actually been pretty good lately. But yeah, sometimes
you're like concentrating.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
Yeah, winning by one run or winning by one hundred
runs one run?

Speaker 3 (22:28):
Yeah yeah, yeah, wow, Yeah, I would agree. It's pretty
exciting being part of those sort of games and then
getting across the line is pretty fun.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
It's never wrecking, but all right, I'd.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
Be stressed only texting and emojis, are only using gifts
to communicate.

Speaker 3 (22:44):
That's a tough one.

Speaker 4 (22:45):
Probably gifts, Yeah, gifts, jeffs all go.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
If you could use one non cricket item as about
would you rather peck a frying pan or an umbrella?

Speaker 3 (22:57):
Frying pan? For sure?

Speaker 4 (22:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (22:58):
Okay, yeah, but more like wait behind it to be
able to sorter though you down?

Speaker 1 (23:03):
Yeah, yeah, what's more challenging facing a fast bowler or
facing our stupid questions questions?

Speaker 4 (23:12):
Fast bowler great and lastly, winning the T.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Twenty World Cup or this podcast, on this podcast, thank
you so much and congratulations. You guys inspire so many
young girls like me that look up to you and
what you guys have done. And finally, what would you
tell your younger self at my age that World champions?

Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yeah, there we go. It wasn't there long ago, you know,
as you were there, you know, it's pretty much the
end of age.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
So I think for me, just maybe just relax and
enjoy it. I think I got so caught up in
every single innings or that I play, and you know,
tell myself it's going to be a long ride. Just
work hard, enjoy yourself, and yeah, you're good enough. I
think it's just that belief sometimes as a young girls
sometimes hard to come by. But yeah, you work hard enough,

(23:58):
you'll get there.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
Oh well, thank you so much for your time, and
thank you put us on. We got toss.

Speaker 4 (24:03):
Now we're part of the team.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
It's the closest I'm going to get the International Cricket
holding the trophy wearing this now. We appreciate it. You
guys have inspired so many people, So thank you for
your time and congratulations.

Speaker 4 (24:14):
Thanks for having us.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
Thanks you very much.

Speaker 2 (24:17):
How's that good?

Speaker 1 (24:18):
No?

Speaker 2 (24:18):
No, it was. Yeah, it was good, but also, how's
that is what they're saying, cricket? You know, how's that?

Speaker 3 (24:23):
Cricket?

Speaker 2 (24:23):
Anyway, don't worry about it. Cricket joke.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
It was so good to talk to Ezzie and Maddie,
a couple of world champions, and to hold the trophy
really heavy.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
It was actually really heavy. I wanted to keep the
white gloves that you hold the trophy with. Cool with
the white gloves. What do you reckon?

Speaker 4 (24:37):
I reckon?

Speaker 1 (24:39):
But thanks so much to Ezzie and Maddy for coming in.
Catch you in the next episode with more inspiring women.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
That's right. Don't forget to subscribe like a subscribe
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