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Speaker 1: The Perth Scorches take on the Melbourne Stars in Victoria

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Speaker 1: on Saturday seven forty am Perth time. You can catch

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Speaker 1: the action on Fox and KO and joining us now

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Speaker 1: is right fastballer Holly Furling, Good morning Ollie.

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Speaker 2: Oh roally guys, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. So the Scorches currently sitting fourth

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Speaker 1: on the WBBL table. The last couple of matches have

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Speaker 1: been a mixed bag of results. How's the team feeling.

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Speaker 1: Are you happy with how the season's going?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we've I think if we're being critical

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Speaker 2: of ourselves, we would have liked to have won a

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Speaker 2: couple of those those games. We had a really tight

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Speaker 2: one against the Sydney Sixers in our last game, but

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Speaker 2: it's always the way come this time of the season.

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Speaker 2: Everyone is still in contention for semi finals, so it's

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Speaker 2: really hard to work out who the front runners are.

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Speaker 2: But we've got a really nice end to our draw

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Speaker 2: where the I guess in the nice thing is is

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Speaker 2: that we're in control of what happens, in control of

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Speaker 2: our destiny.

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Speaker 1: A nice place to be.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Yeah, we're the end of the business and Holly

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Speaker 3: as a cricket tragic congratulations on the season so far. Now,

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Speaker 3: Sophie to mine the Skipper likes their celebration, but you

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Speaker 3: all do. And the celebrations, especially on taking a week

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Speaker 3: at are becoming quite intricate. Is there a bit of

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Speaker 3: work going on pre match.

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Speaker 1: To slip slip to keep you know, beating, a bit

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Speaker 1: of choreography going on.

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Speaker 2: It's been pretty funny to watch. We've had a we

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Speaker 2: had a rain delow early in the in the season

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Speaker 2: and we were starting to brainstorm different ideas and the limbo.

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Speaker 2: The limbo came up and we executed that one the

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Speaker 2: other day, so it's been a bit of fun. Scope

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Speaker 2: Might always brings those challenges each season, so we had

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Speaker 2: the Zinc Challenge, the Headbend Challenge over the years and

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Speaker 2: this year she brought the celebrations and for it all

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Speaker 2: being for charity as well. She's just a legend with

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Speaker 2: this and just connecting community to the WBBL.

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Speaker 3: What's someone We didn't lift a player up straight up

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Speaker 3: legs kimbo because it's sort of like the patient or something.

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Speaker 3: It looks like you're rescuing someone that's a weird one.

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Speaker 2: So what happened was they lifted up Chloe Paparo arguably

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Speaker 2: that's the littlest and there was a bit of limbo happening.

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Speaker 1: Under I like that they've got names. It's like Yo

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Speaker 1: Yo moves and now we know what happens during range lays.

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Speaker 1: So the top four teams will play finals next week.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully the team can go back to back.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, hopefully. It's always I guess a goal of every

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Speaker 2: team that we'll be able to take it out. I

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Speaker 2: know that for me coming across this year to the

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Speaker 2: per Scorches, something that stood out to me with this

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Speaker 2: team was always the resilience and their ability to find

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Speaker 2: a way to win. We're going to need that in

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Speaker 2: the back end of this tournament, and I think too,

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Speaker 2: with where we're placed on the table, it's looking like

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Speaker 2: we're going to have to if we do make finals,

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Speaker 2: play all three finals. So I think this is, if anything,

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Speaker 2: this is where the real perse culture shines through and

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Speaker 2: that resilience and really it's a wa culture thing. I

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Speaker 2: think as well. To really get the job done.

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Speaker 3: You've done a bit of media work on it with

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Speaker 3: seven Heard and Senior. How do you handle hearing your

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Speaker 3: own voice and seeing yourself on the screen.

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Speaker 2: I actually worked I worked in radio for a couple

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Speaker 2: of years as well in a newsroom, and I think

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Speaker 2: that is the most confronting thing when all you can

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Speaker 2: hear is your own voice.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't sound no, no, That's the first thing people

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Speaker 1: always notice when they hear their own voice back.

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Speaker 4: It's like, that's what I sound like someone else.

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Speaker 1: I had no idea, No.

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Speaker 4: That's it.

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Speaker 2: But honestly, I love getting to do what I do.

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Speaker 2: It's been nice to balance both. I've finished my journalism

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Speaker 2: degree now and it's just like a day job for

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Speaker 2: me to be able to go and sit and talk

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Speaker 2: a bit of smack about cricket in and around the season.

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Speaker 2: So now I like to think I've got the best

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Speaker 2: two jobs in the world.

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Speaker 1: How wonderful they go hand in hand. That's great. You

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Speaker 1: have been a professional cricketer for almost a decade now.

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Speaker 1: You started really young. Are you happy with how the

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Speaker 1: games expanded in that time? For women?

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Speaker 2: It's been so awesome. I think I reflect back my

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Speaker 2: first contract was nine hundred dollars and I was cheering.

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Speaker 2: I was sixteen. I'm great back and by myself in

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Speaker 2: you bat and this is so amazing. But the money, like,

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Speaker 2: take the take the money aside it's even cool now

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Speaker 2: you see all these young girls going along to games

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Speaker 2: and they're already saying they want to play for the

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Speaker 2: Perth Scorches or play for the Australian team. And when

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Speaker 2: I first started playing, I had no idea that girls

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Speaker 2: played cricket. So the transition in the last ten years

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Speaker 2: has just been so so cool. And we're even seeing

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Speaker 2: young boys coming along as well and supporting the girls

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Speaker 2: and loving the contest for what it is. So women's

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Speaker 2: Sporters is definitely on the rise. We've got a lot

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Speaker 2: to do to keep it going, but now we're loving

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Speaker 2: being part of the journey.

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Speaker 1: I must tell you that because we have the great

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Speaker 1: the men's team as well the Perth Scorches, and when

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Speaker 1: I hear a passing report about them, I like to

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Speaker 1: know be sure which one I'm hearing about. I tend

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Speaker 1: to call you guys the scorch Hers. I hope that

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Speaker 1: that's not offensive in any way, because I'll stop if

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Speaker 1: it is.

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Speaker 2: But I like it so well. I think it's been

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Speaker 2: a really cool thing that our CEO, Chris Matthew, he's done.

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Speaker 2: She's the boys, I guess are always called the BBL,

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Speaker 2: but she and the boys also refer to themselves as

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Speaker 2: the MBBL because we are the WBBL. So nice little

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Speaker 2: puts that they've had over in the West where it

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Speaker 2: really differentiates both. That kind of give us both on

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Speaker 2: on equal footing, which is really cool.

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Speaker 3: After all this time, you must really be seeing this

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Speaker 3: as a sports fan and having watched a lot the

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Speaker 3: IFLW has expanded to a lot of teams now, so

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Speaker 3: they're getting there with this. The standard is going up,

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Speaker 3: but the cricket has really gone up real nice the

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Speaker 3: last four or five years. It is incredible to watch now.

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Speaker 2: Even the games in the last four days have been phenomenal.

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Speaker 2: I mean take the result out against the Sydney Sixers.

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Speaker 2: That was just a great game of cricket for a spectator.

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Speaker 2: And though even though we went down on the on

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Speaker 2: the last ball, like just as teams that are coming

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Speaker 2: back into it, the Sydney Sixers last night chased down

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Speaker 2: sixty sixty runs in four overs. So there's there's The

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Speaker 2: improvement is just year on year and we're starting to

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Speaker 2: see these phenomenal athletes for what they are, which is athlete,

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Speaker 2: so and the talent coming through they're just feelss and

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Speaker 2: it's something that we haven't seen before this next generation.

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Speaker 2: They're just unbelievable. Let alone what's going to come up

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Speaker 2: through the WA systems in the next few years with

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Speaker 2: these young girls watching their heroes on SCREV and being inspired.

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Speaker 1: You're right. When we consider what's happened in the last

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Speaker 1: ten years and how quickly it's moved, I think it's

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Speaker 1: going to make our head spin what happens in the

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Speaker 1: next ten years. So Holly, good luck on Saturday. It's

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Speaker 1: lovely to talk to you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, guys. We appreciate the support over

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Speaker 2: in the West and we're hoping we can get the

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Speaker 2: job done for you.

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Speaker 4: Awesome. Well yeah, I love seeing eight nine year old

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Speaker 4: girls in the next down my local park. It's pretty cool.

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Speaker 4: So keep inspiring and well done.

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Speaker 2: Hey, thank you very much.

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Speaker 4: Holly fairlingt up. She's been playing for a while now.

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Speaker 1: She started very young, she has I mean she was

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Speaker 1: barely seventeen or sixteen.

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Speaker 4: That's like a start of a song. Yeah, yeah, it's

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Speaker 4: instal