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Ellyse Perry Ready To Face Mumbai Indians: FIFA World Cup Scorer To Youngest Aussie Cricketer, Unknown Facts About Royal Challengers Bangalore Star, In PICS
Australian star all-rounder Ellyse Perry will play her second match of the Women's Premier League (WPL) 2023 for Smriti Mandhana-led Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) Women team against Harmanpreet Kaur's Mumbai Indians Women team on Monday (March 6) night. Perry was the youngest cricketer to represent Australia ever and also represented Australia in the FIFA Women's World Cup 2011. Here are some unknown facts about RCB's Ellyse Perry.
Ellyse Perry was bought for Rs 1.7 crore by Royal Challengers Bangalore
Australian all-rounder Ellyse Perry was bought by Royal Challengers Bangalore at the Women's Premier League 2023 auction for Rs 1.7 crore last month. (Source: Instagram)
Ellyse Perry is 8-time World Champions with Australia
Ellyse Perry is two-time 50-over World Cup champion with Australia and six-time T20 World Cup winner, the latest being in 2023. (Source: Instagram)
Ellyse Perry was married to Rugby Union player Matt Toomua till 2020
Ellyse Perry parted ways with her husband and rugby union player Matt Toomua in 2020, after five years of their marriage. The duo had got hitched together in late December of 2015. In 2021, Perry reportedly started dating AFL star Nat Fyfe but the relationship didn't work out. (Source: Instagram)
Ellyse Perry scored in FIFA World Cup 2011 quarterfinal for Australia
In 2011, Ellyse Perry was picked in Australia’s squad for the Fifa Women’s World Cup in Germany when she became the first player to ever play in both ICC and FIFA World Cups. Perry scored the team’s only goal in the 1-3 defeat to Sweden in the FIFA World Cup quarterfinals. (Source: Instagram)
Ellyse Perry has represented Australia in both cricket and football World Cup
Ellyse Perry, the Sydney-born allrounder also holds the distinction of having represented Australia in both cricket and football World Cups. (Source: Twitter)
Ellyse Perry was 1st Australia to play 100 T20I matches
During the 2018 ICC Women's World T20 tournament in the West Indies, Ellyse Perry became the first cricketer for Australia, male or female, to play 100 Twenty20 International matches. In the final of the same tournament, she became the first cricketer for Australia, male or female, to take 100 wickets in T20Is. (Source: Twitter)