One of the grandest talents the sport has seen is rarely given her full canvas. Instead, she is asked to do her best with postcards
There are times covering women’s cricket when you feel that you should not be writing about Ellyse Perry. Not again, not so soon. For the outlets that give little time to the sport, Perry is their exception: she has a broader celebrity that they want a piece of, even if she finds that situation perplexing. But however firmly you decide that your focus should be elsewhere, here comes Perry taking seven wickets, Perry scoring an Ashes hundred, Perry summoning the spotlight that in large part she would prefer to avoid.
On the second day of the ongoing Test at Taunton, Perry was more locked on for a century than any player who has ever held a bat. At no time through the first day had she looked like getting out. Resuming on 84 she was never going to give it away.
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