Sam Squiers welcomes Alyssa Healy back, three years after she appeared on the pilot episode of On Her Game.The Aussie skipper, keeper and star batter gives some behind the scenes recollections of her record-breaking World Cup performance on home soil, including Meg Lanning’s Katy Perry fan-girl moment. She fends off any talk of retirement, and why FOMO means it’ll be a long time yet before she hangs up the pads.

Muruwari woman Ash Gardner is the second Indigenous woman to play cricket for Australia and her debut came sixty years after the first Indigenous woman, Faith Thomas, played in the 1950’s. Ash joins Sam Squiers to discuss the barriers facing young Indigenous people getting into cricket, winning the 2020 World Cup and the opportunities she’s creating for school kids through the Ashleigh Gardner Foundation.

19 year old Holly Ferling had an unconventional start to her career. But now that her Southern Stars have aligned, it’s the Ashes she desperately wants.

Sportette’s editor was invited to Southern Stars training to see first hand what goes into making this World Champion Australian Women’s Cricket Team.