Thoughts of an enormous payday haven’t even entered the desires of Australia’s T20 stars on the World Cup in South Africa, with the primary Women’s Premier League public sale hours not days away.
There can be 28 Australians vying for simply 30 spots for abroad gamers shared among the many 5 groups that can outlay greater than $2.1m to fill their squads on Monday evening.
Australia boasts the No.1 and No.2 T20 batters on the earth in Tahlia McGrath and Beth Mooney, and the No.1 all-rounder in Ash Gardner, who’re sure to draw consideration within the inaugural public sale that has been known as a “game-changer” for ladies’s sport.
Gardner is the primary Aussie up for public sale on Monday evening, contemporary off a starring position in Australia’s opening World Cup win that may solely have enhanced her possibilities of cashing in.
The 25-year-old, like all of her teammates, has tried to not be distracted by the approaching windfall however conceded it was laborious to disregard.
“To be honest, I’ve tried to not think about it, but I’d be lying if I haven’t. I actually dreamt about it the other night, which is quite sad but which is quite funny but that’s how much I’ve been thinking about it,” Gardner mentioned.
“But I think it’s a huge moment for women’s cricket and to see that the money that’s been put into women’s cricket over in India to ultimately have that global impact, to have associate players given the opportunity to play in that competition is huge to take back to their homelands.
“And for me, it’s certainly not about the money side of things, it’s being able to go over there and challenge myself in different conditions. Playing in India is super challenging and the conditions are challenging with the heat and things like that.
“But if I get the opportunity to go over there and play in that, I’ll certainly be pretty happy with it, but my focus right now is on the World Cup and playing for my country and that’s kind of a side thing, kind of the elephant in the room for a lot of teams and trying to keep our focus pretty sharply on this World Cup.”
Gardner is not only the primary Australian up for public sale, which is about to start at 7.30pm in Mumbai throughout an Australian coaching session, she is the third participant listed to go underneath the hammer.
She’s set to comply with celebrity New Zealand skipper Sophie Devine and English spinner Sophie Ecclestone, the No.1 bowler on the earth.
Eccelestone can be enjoying for England in the course of the public sale and has tried to place it out of her thoughts.
“I think it‘s massive, I think I’ve not, to be honest, I’ve actually not really thought about it,” she mentioned.
“I think it’s just a match day for me and whatever happens tomorrow happens. I don’t think we’ll know what we’ll go for or what happens tomorrow because we’ll have our game and our phones will go in (to security).
”We’ll simply see what occurs and float.”
Source: www.news.com.au
