Teenage WBBL sensation Caoimhe Bray is still coming to terms with her breakthrough performance in Adelaide on Sunday revealing she’s been picking the brain of the very athlete she’s been compared to ever since she joined the Sydney Sixers as hype around her grows.
Bray, 15, who is also a goalkeeper for the Young Matildas, hit the winning runs in the Sydney Sixers’ opening win over the Melbourne Renegades moving superstar all-rounder Ellyse Perry, also a former Matilda, to label her “a really special kid”.
Most year nine students spend Sunday evenings worrying about their English homework, but Bray was living out a childhood dream in the middle of the Adelaide Oval as she hit the winning runs to go with a wicket in her first over in the victory over the Renegades.
Bray’s media performance in Sydney on Friday morning suggested she was ready to handle the rapid rise to the WBBL after strong performances in the Spring Challenge, but few could have predicted she’d be this good on debut.
Her first three deliveries went for 14, but the young gun ended her first over in the competition with the wicket of Deandra Dottin as she announced 스포츠토토사이트 herself to the world and she could turn out again at North Sydney Oval on Tuesday night.
The decision by Sixers coach Charlotte Edwards for her to debut in the season opener was then vindicated as she defied a batting collapse to smack the winning runs with six balls to spare.
“It is a dream debut on how it went. I wasn’t sure how I’d go, but I couldn’t be happier with it,” she said back in Sydney on Monday afternoon.
“‘Pez’ (Perry) gave me the cap and then I went out to field (feeling) a bit nervous, but it all went pretty well.
“When ‘Lottie’ (Edwards) told me that I’d be debuting, I wasn’t as nervous. But when I got onto the field, my heart rate was getting up a bit.