AUSTRALIA’S WORLD CHAMPION WOMEN’S CRICKET TEAM
Australia’s women’s cricket team, the Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars, is one of the country’s most successful national sporting teams, but its players are far from household names.
How many Australians, for example, followed captain Jodie Fields’ courageous 18-month battle to return to the crease following what many expected to be a career ending injury?
And how many people know that rising star Meg Lanning was the youngest player – male or female – to score a century for Australia, a feat achieved on just her second outing for the team.
Fields and Lanning feature in a series of four short films which introduce these gutsy, talented athletes to both the broader cricket and sporting community of players and fans and provide an insight into what makes them tick. The films are part of the pair’s role as Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars ambassadors, aimed to encourage greater following and participation in women’s cricket and help it become one of Australia’s most recognisable female sports.
Also featuring in the biopic stories are fellow Commonwealth Bank Southern Star ambassadors, motivated and versatile player Alyssa Healy and fast bowler Ellyse Perry, whose multi-sport career has led some observers to note that if she were a male athlete, she would be recognised as perhaps the country’s most talented sportsperson.
Each of these four players feature in their own short film, shot in a way that allows us to see not only what makes them tick, but also showcases their athleticism in a whole new light.
The four stories are being released throughout January to support and highlight the Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars during the Women’s T20 INTL series and Women’s Rose Bowl ODI series against the New Zealand White Ferns in a bid to generate interest in this accomplished team and show Australians just who these sporting heroes are!
TO WATCH
JODIE FIELDS Field Day | Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars in this together http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJhnBe2Srs8
ELLYSE PERRY Ellyse Perry’s quest | In the proud tradition of cricket http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwxuvGci98g
ALYSSA HEALY Mind games | Playing the Healy way Available Wednesday 25 January
MEG LANNING Rising Star | Meg in for the win Available Wednesday 1 February
FOLLOW THE COMMONWEALTH BANK SOUTHERN STARS http://www.cricket.com.au/southernstars, @_SouthernStars
Friday 20th Jan Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars v NZ North Sydney Oval ABC1 2.30PM AEDT
Saturday 21st Jan Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars v NZ North Sydney Oval ABC1 2.30PM AEDT
Sunday 22nd Jan Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars v NZ North Sydney Oval ABC1 2.30PM AEDT
Wednesday 1st Feb Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars v NZ at Sydney Olympic Park NINE 2.05PM AEDT
Friday 3rd Feb Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars v NZ MCG NINE 2.05PM AEDT
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